Very interested in the coin and reading up more on it. One question:
If this coin can be mined with CPU, is there a risk that hackers would be incentivized to take over computers of unsuspecting people to mine electroneum?
Its important to note that if a hacker is going to use your computer as a miner, they would most likely do it in small amounts, to many computers, and the hacker program snuck into your computer would include a cpu/gpu miner.
In other words, yes hackers do this, on a mass scale to millions of home computers everyday, to people that have nothing to do with cryptocurrency. You deciding to become a miner yourself will have nothing to do with it.
Its not like, now that you have a miner on your computer, so now they will see you as a better target. Thats not how it works.
Actually, becoming a miner might actually help you detect someone else using your machine to mine because you will be more familar with it.
For instance, pull up your task manager, and see what programs are running. Is one of them a mining program a hacker installed?
Can you tell?
An experienced miner could.
So, actually becoming a miner yourself would most likey reduce the risk of your computer mining for some hacker without your knowledge due to you increased knowledge.
Or, you could join some other coin that is a scam and they could take some of your mining power for themselves.
So, no becoming a miner yourself doesnt incentivize a hacker.
You should always use 15 character random passwords that have upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Also, educate yourself on proper security to employ when using public wifi.
Electeoneum is as safe and secure as you are going to get. Mining ETN does not put you in ANY increased risk.
