London Student Mines Dogecoin With University's Computers - They Don't Know, Yet
Each evening, 'Felix' sneaks into the computer suite at his university and starts up the machines. One by one, he runs a script on each computer and his 'workers' begin solving complex algorithms. You wouldn't know just by looking, but he's making his own money - using his university's computers to mine dogecoin. Felix's story mirrors that of a Harvard researcher who used his university's supercomputer for dogecoin mining, earning himself a permanent ban from the computer and, presumably, a heck of a lot of coins in the process. Like others who came onto the cryptocurrency scene late,....
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A student at Harvard was caught using the University's massive computing power to mine Dogecoin. Supercomputers are pretty amazing. They're mostly used for research since they specialise in processing, analysing, and doing computations on ridiculous amounts of data at high speeds. Supercomputer simulations have been used to understand earthquakes, model pandemics, predict the weather, and more. Harvard University has its own supercomputing cluster called Odyssey, which boasts a 14,000 core Intel Xeon architecture with over 10 TB of RAM. But unlike most researchers, one student at Harvard....
Why would one need to buy an advanced, expensive cryptocurrency mining rig, when there are plenty of PCs in the University waiting to be used. That philosophy and high hopes for the peak in Dogecoin price lead “Felix” into his University’s computer suite every evening. Nevertheless, jokes aside the student who didn’t want give up on mining after it became known that it was late for him to become Bitcoin millionaire he turned his attention towards Doge. Felix has been only expanding the scale of operation since his return to Imperial College London after last Christmas. As my teacher once....
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