'51 percent attack' in Silicon Valley TV Series

Most modern technological marvels make their way into mainstream media, but a select few are influential enough to feature on some our favourite TV shows.

While these should be taken with a pinch of salt, both celebrities reach millions of viewers on their shows, meaning whatever perception is portrayed has the chance of influencing a significant number of people.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have also featured in popular TV shows over the last few years, with Big Bang Theory being a notable series to have talked about Bitcoin.

Silicon Valley - a show about tech startupsFor those unfamiliar with the show, Silicon Valley is centred around the lives of five programmers and a startup company based in Silicon Valley, California.

The star of the show Richard Hendricks creates an app known as Pied Piper which is a data compression platform.

The show ebbs and flows between projects succeeding and failing in a parody of the real world of IT startups.

Silicon Valley's 51 percent attackA newly introduced 'villain' teams up with regular character Laurie, and launches a '51 percent attack' on Pied Piper's system.

In the show, we're told that the attackers could delete users and developer apps and crash their newly created token.

As pointed out by Mills, the coin is not affiliated to the show's producers HBO, but was created in May through an airdrop.

Brad Mills May 11, 2018 This piedpipercoin situation shows the popularity of the TV show - with enough people interested in an actual token inspired by Silicon Valley.