Monero is mined on an CPU with ideal efficiency. They'd have to destroy server farms and personal computers or even cell phones if it were Monero.
⚡️🇲🇾 WATCH - Malaysian authorities seized 1,069 bitcoin mining machines in 2021 and used a steamroller to crush them. The hardware allegedly stole $2 million worth of electricity and was destroyed by court order.
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Is Monero still being reorged? I noticed a bunch of ASIC suppliers stopped accepting XMR during the Qubic reorg attack..
Not anymore thankfully, Qubic burned through their attack fund and nuked their coin for their 37% attack. I hope selfish mining attacks don't become a trend against the proof of work coins, it's a bug weakness of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, etc.
Bitcoin is the largest supercomputer in the world, with over 1ZH/s. I doubt that even a well funded collective of governments could attack it at such a scale. One of the advantages of ASIC mining is how efficient it is compared to FPGA, GPU and CPU mining, which makes attacks much more expensive. I heard they're going after DOGE next. It's Scrypt algo like Litecoin, but with more hashrate.