Old stale news.

A lot of what you heard was blown out of proportion.

theyre trying

but not really

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1mod130/psa_qubic_is_lying_they_dont_have_50_hash_rate/

They can keep doing this, the price will keep dropping, then it will make no economic sense to continue. In the meantime, xmr is on sale.

It's not and it takes two seconds to verify

https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero