The newest chapter within the ongoing Qubic-Monero energy battle has seen a “reorg” of 18 blocks on the Monero community.
Qubic’s “selfish mining” techniques enable it to briefly manipulate block manufacturing. The newest reorg, which observers declare noticed 118 transactions voided, is the biggest disruption to this point.
⚠️The assault in opposition to Monero is again. Hours in the past XMR skilled a 18 block reorg
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Qubic’s actions have introduced the integrity of the Monero community below query, with one commentator figuring out the frequency of “orphaned” (deserted) blocks at practically 30% over a 24-hour interval.
Qubic beforehand claimed to manage 51% of the community, although later evaluation concluded that its actual hashrate was probably between 28% and 35%. Then got here a wave of reorgs, stored under the crucial 10 block threshold used to verify transactions.
The newest reorg, with a depth of 18 blocks, might end in double-spending of tokens affecting any customers who’re nonetheless utilizing 10-block affirmation occasions.
Response to Qubic’s 18 block reorg on Monero
Some see the most recent assault as Qubic desperately making an attempt to remain related as its token value bleeds out, whereas others have criticized the dearth of a definitive response from the Monero neighborhood as “amateur hour.”
Qubic’s hash seize marketing campaign on Monero hinges on promoting mined XMR and paying its miners in QUBIC, at the next fee than common mining.
The tactic started to lift eyebrows in late July, prompting a surge within the value of QUBIC.
Nonetheless, since peaking in mid-August, Qubic’s token has misplaced over a 3rd of its worth, in accordance with knowledge from CoinMarketCap. In the identical interval, Monero’s XMR is up roughly 25%.
Clearly undeterred, Qubic founder Sergey Ivancheglo additional stoked the rivalry: “Monero will stay because Qubic wanted it to stay.”
Group response has centered on varied proposed technical options, however the delay of their implementation has led to frustrations.
One account, with the X deal with “Exitnode,” summed up the frustration.
As a substitute of addressing the Qubic menace, they are saying that builders are “working on a future upgrade that isn’t live.” Stating that one warning got here a yr in the past, they ask, ”Why have so few proven urgency to this example?”
One other account, Monero Analysis Lab (Unofficial), states it’s “highly likely that temporary rolling DNS checkpoints will be deployed very soon.” This emergency protection measure would act as a stop-gap whereas long run options are launched.
The method entails “checkpointed” blocks that are mined by the Monero Core Staff’s nodes. The GitHub situation states, “DNS checkpoints… could prevent deep blockchain re-organizations, but Monero’s blockchain consensus protocol would temporarily be less decentralized.”
