According to various sources, a Federal Reserve employee was caught using the central bank’s internet server to mine bitcoin. Nicholas Berthaume, who worked for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, was sentenced to a year of probation and fined $5,000 for using unauthorized Bitcoin software on a federal server.
The Inspector General for the U.S. Federal Reserve revealed that the former analyst connected to the bank’s network to earn bitcoins. Berthaume was charged with illegally running unauthorized mining software on the Fed’s server from 2012 to 2014.
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