Harvard's college newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, had the story that someone used the university's supercomputing cluster Odyssey for the unofficial purpose of mining dogecoins. The discovery was by one of its community members using the Odyssey cluster, who spotted an anomaly with a set of compute nodes.

A user-group message was sent out informing the members that the person had used the Odyssey cluster to garner the coins. The FAS (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) Research Computing Users Group were told how the person, not named, had set up the mining operation on the Odyssey cluster, "consuming significant resources in order to participate in a mining contest." James Cuff, assistant dean for research computing, reminded the group that the Odyssey and Research Computing resources are off limits for use for personal or private gain or any non-research related activity.

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