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Interested in how much they potentially got out of this!
Sounds like they got caught almost imidately after connecting it to the internet so propably not much.
I don't know how accurate any of this is, or how supercomputers or Bitcoin have changed in the past half decade, or how seriously such comparisons can or should be taken, but:

    The suspects had tried to use one of Russia's
    most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoins
4-5 years ago:

    the entire bitcoin network is roughly 256 times
    faster than all the top 500 supercomputers around
    the globe combined.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-b...
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