Οι αρχές επιβολής του Νόμου στη Ρωσία και την Ουκρανία συνέλαβαν ύποπτους με κατηγορίες χρήσης (super) υπολογιστών εργασίας για Bitcoin mining.
The most interesting case was in Russia, where FSB secret service agents arrested many suspects who had used one of Russia's most powerful supercomputers for Bitcoin mining.
Scientists captured for Bitcoin mining used the supercomputer of a nuclear power plant.
The incident is being investigated by the FSB and not the police, because the supercomputer he was at the Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) at the Russian Research Nuclear Laboratory.
Sarov is an isolated city guarded by the Russian army and only scientists and employees of the nuclear center can enter, leave, or reside in the city.
The Russian agency news Interfax reports that the supercomputer used to mine Bitcoin was a secure system and should not have been connected to Internet, due to the data that is stored and processed.
Suspects who apparently connected the hypercalculator to the Internet to mine Bitcoin without realizing it caused system alerts that staff received security of the institution. The suspects were immediately located and handed over to the authorities. The number of suspects or their names have not been released.
But arrests in Russia were not the only ones.
On Friday, the Ukrainian police made a similar arrest. According to one Press release, the authorities of Ukraine arrested a professor from the Lutsk University to use an institution's computer resources for Bitcoin mining.
The video from arresting the suspect indicates that the suspect had created a mini data center in his office, with several mining facilities through the GPU.
Such rigs are known to consume too much electricity and generate a lot of noise, which seems to be the reason why it was discovered and referred to the authorities.
Watch the video: