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Arguable, because monero's hash power is a negligible fraction of bitcoin's AND it's ASIC resitant, so mining on CPUs is still viable. This makes it much more
by anonporridge 5y ago
Arguable, because monero's hash power is a negligible fraction of bitcoin's AND it's ASIC resitant, so mining on CPUs is still viable.
This makes it much more vulnerable to nation state 51% attack since they can just temporarily redirect fleets of CPUs (maybe even deputize AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) to attack the network. This kind of rapid response attack isn't feasible on bitcoin because SHA256 ASIC miners are incredibly hard to come by and the electricity required to pull it off would be enormously expensive.