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In this highly anticipated community space, the Quai Network core founders, Dr. K and Jonathan, sit down with Shai (Jack), a prominent core contributor to Kaspa, to dissect the ongoing security drama shaking the Proof-of-Work (PoW) ecosystem: Qubic’s uncooperative mining attack on Monero (XMR).
The panel dives deep into the data behind the attack, discussing whether Qubic actually achieved a true 51% dominance or if they are leveraging selfish mining and network variance (around 37%-44% hash rate) to systematically orphan Monero blocks and compromise its transaction liveness with empty blocks.
Shai breaks down his preliminary findings and introduces his upcoming 3-part research series on the history of selfish mining, from Bitcoin's core vulnerabilities to the beautiful yet impractica ...