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Total mining
Dear editors !
The leadership of our country recently has been talking a lot about the digital economy. At the highest level: Personally Vladimir Vladimirovich fell ill with digital economy. The government is already discussing where to place centers for the extraction of cryptocurrencies. Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev is going to organize cryptocurrency mining in the territory of the former Moskvich factory, he is going to attract $ 100 million for this purpose. Blockchain, bitcoin, mining ... - All these outlandish and obscure words are already entering our vocabulary.
Until recently, I considered Bitcoin a convenient payment for various kinds of drug dealers and terrorists. But now, after the country's leadership paid attention to the digital economy, I looked at cryptocurrencies with completely different eyes: this is the real chance to build a post -industrial economy, to abandon life by selling non -renewed resources!
Instead of oil and gas, you can mines bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies - there are no restrictions on available reserves. This is what can be the national idea of Russia of the 21st century is a transition to a digital economy and life at the expense of mining!
Moreover, of course, the intellectual avant -garde of the nation should go ahead - we scientists. It is we who should show an example of the whole of Russia how to act in the 21st century, how to build a digital economy and earn at the expense of this. They say that in Skoltekh some enterprising students have already begun to minute the bikoins on university computers. It is not surprising that this happened in the most progressive and innovative university in the country: these young people showed us all an example.
But you need to do mining not in the order of private initiative, but to put this business on the state basis. Scientific institutions and higher education organizations have quite powerful computing resources. From supercomputers to ordinary computers that each of us have. A lot of energy resources are spent on conducting various kinds of experiments. That is, we have everything we need in order to join the digital economy.
The Ministry of Education and Science and Fano should develop instructions for conducting cryptocurrency mining for their subordinate organizations. The first year or two should not set strict standards: we must get used to the new reality, so to speak, taste it. But in the future it is necessary to make this activity part of our state assignment.
Now, what a sin to hide, the activities of scientists are evaluated according to formal indicators: the number of articles, patents, etc. But how much is a lot of producing the Russian economy from our articles? That's it. Therefore, after a couple of years, it is necessary to rewrite the road maps of organizations and set as the main indicator the number of bitcoins extracted.
Naturally, it will be necessary to carry out some investments in the equipment of scientific institutions and universities: it is necessary to minute bitcoins not by grandfathers methods - on their personal computers, but on specially equipped farms. But these are just those investments that will pay off and help realize the government’s long -standing dream - to make a science self -sufficient.
Yes, colleagues, cryptocurrency mined should ensure the activities of scientific and educational organizations to a greater extent: we must finally tear off the needle of budget financing and show all other state employees an example of how to act. Not to whine that there is not enough money, not to tear the throat at rallies, but to earn a living for a living, becoming part of a digital economy calmly and in a businesslike way.
Of course, I foresee one serious obstacle: our inertness, conservatism, unremarking to open to a new one. And, colleagues, here our leadership needs to be very decisive. You will have, so to speak, to shave the beards with a significant number of scientific boyars who will stand in the way of reform.
However, I hope that the day is not a day when the head of the department or the laboratory, having seen the subordinate, will ask not “how to do the project?”, Or “did you add an article?”, Or “already the thesis?”, And “how many were pinched?”.
Your Ivan Ekonomov