On: Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocur...

[hoschicz]

This is incredible! What actually stops me from launching such an attack on something like Einsteinium?

One problem I found w/ the website: you have included Peercoin, even though Peercoin uses PoW only for initial coin distribution and not block validation. Block validation is done through PoS.

[aiCeivi9 → hoschicz]

> What actually stops me from launching such an attack on something like Einsteinium?

    - lack of exchanges accepting it
    - delays on withdraw/deposit to/from exchange
    - exchanges requiring verification of user PI

That is probably all.

[tristanho → hoschicz]

This! Einsteinium would apparently cost $33 to attack? Even if it's off by an order of magnitude or two (as some of the other comments seem to suggest), this _still_ seems like something a security researcher could/should try.

(Not to steal peoples' money but rather just to prove security or lack of it!)

[xur17 → hoschicz]

I've removed Peercoin, but it may take a few minutes to clear out of the cache.