how many petaflops would the bitcoin network be capable of of it was converted to a supercomputers.
alot less then the current bitcoin network.
afterall the super computer in question is CPU managed, and the news is 2 years old. so i do not expect that super computer to have hashed much. afterall we are passed CPU, GPU, FPGA and now into ASICS. and there are many 10's of thousands of ASICS in the world.
secondly due to the article refering to a 2 year old story. the $10k of bitcoins where when bitcoins were about $2. meaning he got 5000 coins.
which today if he kept them and never spent them, would be worth $3.25million