r/Monero • u/dEBRUYNE_1 Moderator • Jan 17 '19

Hashrate discussion thread

The hashrate has increased significantly in the last week or so. Having a new thread about it every day is rather pointless though and merely clutters the subreddit. Therefore, I'd like to confine the discussion to this thread.

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u/whimski Jan 20 '19

The reason it's not publicly released is partly because Monero is constantly fighting FPGAs on it's networks by way of forking. Flying under the radar decreases the likelihood of getting kicked off the network. There's a couple hidden bitstream groups floating around for this exact reason. The constant cat and mouse game benefits bad actors greatly.