On: Ask HN: Are there forgotten servers out there?

[facepalm]

Couldn't he configure it to do Bitcon Mining, then go look for it with thermal imaging?

[hga → facepalm]

Back then he could have configured it to search for Mersenne primes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_...) or the like. There's always been capacious sinks for computer power ^_^.

And I think the downvotes are uncalled for, the general idea is excellent, even if Bitcoin mining is iffy in a corporate setting (very bad if you keep them, and the finance people won't know what to do with them, plus their tax treatment is not trivial).

[yyhhsj0521 → facepalm]

There are numerous way to heat a machine other then bitcoin mining( actually I doubt if bitcoins mining is the most efficient way)

[the8472 → yyhhsj0521]

fsvo efficient

[Wilya → facepalm]

He could, except this quote predates Bitcoin by at least five years. Oldest reference for this page in the wayback machine is in 2003. The quote may be even older than that.