2019-10-25 12:30 |
The last of three Russian scientists caught illegally mining bitcoin at a top-secret nuclear lab has been given a prison sentence. origin »
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2019-10-25 12:30 |
The last of three Russian scientists caught illegally mining bitcoin at a top-secret nuclear lab has been given a prison sentence. origin »
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As per Nikkei Asia, Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has suggested building a nuclear plant to sustain Bitcoin mining in a bid to support the profitable crypto mining activities in the nation “Looking into the future, we will have to make an unpopular decision about the construction of a nuclear power plant,” said Tokayev in a […] The post Kazakhstan could turn to nuclear power to keep its Bitcoin mining industry running appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-11-25 14:01 | |
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California-based Oklo and Compass Mining will take the Bitcoin mining sector to the next level. These companies have consolidated a two-decade partnership to introduce advanced fission and harvest nuclear energy to substitute fossil fuels to mine BTC.
2021-7-17 21:00 | |
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A Russian scientist has received a fine for mining Bitcoin at a top-secret nuclear facility. Denis Baykov has been ordered to pay 450,000 rubles, or about $6,900 for his involvement in the scheme.
2019-10-3 01:00 | |
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has suggested the country begin mining bitcoin with its nuclear power. What could this mean for the world? The post Op Ed: Belarus and the Case for National Bitcoin Strategies appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-2 20:48 | |
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The engineer at a top-secret nuclear lab, along with two colleagues, had accessed the plant's supercomputer to mine bitcoin.
2019-10-1 16:05 | |
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A Russian nuclear engineer has been fined $7,000 for illegal bitcoin mining at a top-secret nuclear base. Scientists at Top-Secret Nuclear Lab Caught Mining Bitcoin According to The Moscow Times, Denis Baykov, a nuclear engineer at the Sarov nuclear base has been fined $7,000 for illegally using the plant’s supercomputers for bitcoin mining.
2019-10-1 14:00 | |
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Adding to China’s list of crypto-disasters this year, a local mining farm has allegedly caught fire for reasons that are yet to revealed. The disaster that befell the Innosilicon-powered data center’s was first reported on Twitter by @OGBTC, who tweeted, “The big datacenter from Innosilicon just went nuclear $BTC“ The above image was posted as […] The post Bitcoin mining farm in China allegedly burns down as coin records minor fall in hash rate appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-10-1 08:41 | |
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A man named Denis Baykov has been fined 450,000 rubles ($7,000) by Russian authorities after illegally mining Bitcoin (BTC) by using electricity from an old Russian nuclear warhead facility at Sarov, a small town in western Russia.
2019-9-29 15:20 | |
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Employee gets fined $7,000 for illegally mining Bitcoin on a supercomputer at a nuclear research center
2019-9-29 04:16 | |
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Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the nation’s primary law enforcement authority, has arrested several individuals for illegally mining bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins at the state’s nuclear power plant (NPP), reports RT on August 22, 2019.
2019-8-23 21:00 | |
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The Security Service of Ukraine confiscated crypto mining equipment from a single office in the administrative wing of the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant. The seized equipment included 16 GPU video cards, 7 hard drives, 2 solid-state drives, a motherboard, extension cords, and a router.
2019-8-23 19:49 | |
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People will do anything to get their hands on that sweet cryptocurrency including, perhaps one of the most audacious yet, using secret areas in a nuclear power plant to hide and power mining machines.
2019-8-22 11:42 | |
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Two raids of the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant uncovered GPUs, hard drives, and cooling equipment used to mine cryptocurrencies.
2019-8-23 00:00 | |
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SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) detectives have discovered a cryptocurrency mining operation at one of the nation’s nuclear power plants. The agency has reason to believe that it was officials at the facility that had installed the unauthorised hardware.
2019-8-22 23:00 | |
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Belarus has emerged as a contender to take the cryptocurrency mining mantle for China, following the latter’s proposed ban that looks to outlaw the domestic mining industry. Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of the eastern European country, voiced his support for the decentralized currency industry in what will be a new chapter for the country.
2019-4-20 12:30 | |
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Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, met with the country’s IT community to discuss the growth of its native tech industry, according to the state-owned national news agency, the Belarusian Telegraph Agency.
2019-4-19 16:59 | |
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Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.
2019-2-18 18:30 | |
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There has been a great deal of criticism lately concerning bitcoin’s tendency to use more energy than a whole country. The claim is hotly disputed and some even say that it is better to use the excess energy than to waste it, which is something that bitcoin can do. But – wait a moment, while […]
2018-10-19 11:58 | |
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Generating electricity closer to full capacity and at a constant rate is the most economical, technically simple and safe mode of operation at nuclear power plants, according to NEA. Bitcoin mining can help by utilizing the excess energy reactors can generate outside peak seasons and hours of consumption, reducing the stress from powering up and […] The post How Bitcoin Mining Can Help Nuclear Reactors appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-10-17 03:20 | |
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Ever heard of the term crypto laundering? North Korea (DPRK) is trading, laundering and mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) and possibly Monero (XMR) in order to evade U. S. sanctions, intelligence experts tell Asia Times.
2018-9-28 16:30 | |
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According to new figures provided by the US Energy Information Administration and obtained by Cleantechnica, an energy-focused publication, renewable energy sources surpassed nuclear energy sources in 2018, which could have a profound impact on the global crypto mining sector.
2018-8-31 19:00 | |
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According to The Statesman, an Indian ex-pat by the name Varun Datta has acquired two UK based power plants to bolster the operations of blockchain energy firm, 4NEW. The plans in question, are not traditional coal power plants, nor are they of the nuclear persuasion, instead, Datta has managed to secure two ‘waste to energy’ power plans, which use Anerobic Digestion Technology to convert household waste into electricity.
2018-6-16 15:00 | |
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