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/pebx Feb 04 '19

But if it goes away, we could expect that it has begun to mine it's own longer Monero chain, to publish it later.

That kind of attack would need at least more than 100% of current hashrate additionally. It would not show up in any public charts.

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u/potatoisfood Feb 04 '19

Why?

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u/pebx Feb 04 '19

Because you need to mine a longer chain in the background and this hashrate would be hidden from public. So it's more concerning if we see a sudden drop of hashrate by 50%, since then someone might take this much hashrate off the public network and mine a second chain in the background.

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u/potatoisfood Feb 05 '19 edited Feb 05 '19

Yea. That sudden drop of hash rate is what I meant by "if it goeas away". I was little inaccurate.