Staff at the Federal Nuclear Centre in Sarov, western Russia, allegedly borrowed one of Russias most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoins. The supercomputer is said to be capable of operating at 1 petaflop or to use language we can all understand a mere thousand trillion floating point operations per second. It is likely to outperform the typical dude in his back bedroom who has set up half a dozen graphics cards into his own cryptocurrency mining rig.”]