New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Executing a 51% attack on a real live CryptoCurrency, livestream

Show HN: Executing a 51% attack on a real live CryptoCurrency, livestream
4 by piracy1 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hey all, On Oct 13, 3:00 CDT, 4:00 EDT 1:00 PST I'm going to do a 51% attack against the cryptocurrency Einsteinium to: 1. Demonstrate how easy these attacks are for anyone to do. 2. Generally teach people about the nuts and bolts of these attacks and potential mitigations. If you want to watch it, https://ift.tt/2y65wZL Event link: https://ift.tt/2NnQrHX