• mlody@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    What do you think about current situation of Monero? Right now people are talking about possibility of 51% attack. Do you think that could happen?

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      14 days ago

      I think PoW sucks and this is a perfect example of it. It doesn’t cost a lot of money to attack some PoW chains currently. Just spike for a few minutes and boom. With PoS, you have to hold so you actively lose from attacking the blockchain, as lowering the value of the crypto impacts you negatively heavily

      I think it’s a nice test for Monero and PoW blockchains

      I didn’t learn too much about 51%, but my guess is that they can pretty much cause massive reorgs from now, on demand, if they keep doing it. Afaik they reached 34% not 51% but still, it created some problems with the blockchain.

      It could very well happen and what’s frightening is that they’re not super rich either