Beyond the political estates, the Russian government has been known for its variant stance before the rise of cryptocurrencies, not only against its trade, but also as regards the issue of miners. The mining of these assets has been included in the bill for the cryptocurrencies of the country, with various resources that proposed that the miners declare taxes on their profits for this activity.
However, when it comes to the secret facilities of a government as influential in world politics as Russia, the space of these spaces for personal activities can be a crime from every point of view.
Precisely, that is what happened in the city of Sarov, where several scientists who worked in a nuclear installation were arrested by the authority that they were allegedly found mining Bitcoins in the supercomputer of the facility. As expressed by the Federal Nuclear Center:
There was an unauthorized attempt to use the computer facilities for private purposes, the so-called mining.
According to a report offered by BBC News, the supercomputer that was used for mining alerted the authorities at the precise moment in which the authors tried to connect to the Internet. In this sense, the arrested scientists were put under the order of the Federal Security Service (FSB), however, it is not clear what are the charges.
If we consider the way in which these scientists were captured, mining bitcoins, you can well classify their action as 'naive', which although it can be used to make a good idea, do it from a secret Russian nuclear facility It is not so much.
As the reports suggest, the supercomputer in question is a high power machine, with a capacity of 1 petaflop, which allows executing 1,000 trillion calculations per second. However, it did not have to be connected to the Internet, which was crucial to catch scientists in their attempt to make money with government hardware, in a facility that produced the Soviet Union's first nuclear bomb.