{"id":41830,"date":"2025-08-12T21:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41830"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T21:31:45","slug":"qubic-hijacks-monero-51-attack-sends-shock-through-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=41830","title":{"rendered":"Qubic Hijacks Monero: 51% Attack Sends Shock Through Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monero (XMR) is confronting what key voices on X describe as a 51% attack from the Qubic mining pool. Bitcoin developer Peter Todd set the tone early, writing: \u201cInteresting. Apparently Monero just had a big reorg too, I assume related to this attack.\u201d When asked whether Qubic had definitively crossed the 51% threshold, Todd cautioned<\/a> that real-time dominance is hard to pin down: \u201cThat\u2019s inherently difficult to measure. PoW is probabilistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monero Under Siege As Qubic Claims 51% Control<\/h2>\n

A widely circulated post from an account styling itself as Coffeinated User sketched the alleged playbook and economics in stark terms: \u201cQubic just reached 51% share of Monero. This is a huge feat. They will be the first to manipulate a cryptocurrency with a 51% attack<\/a>. They intend to orphan all blocks from every other miner, making themselves the only mining entity of Monero.\u201d The same post asserted a profit-split and buyback\/burn mechanic around QUBIC tokens: \u201cThey are 3X more profitable than mining Monero directly. They are giving half the profit to miners and selling the other half of the profit to buy QUBIC and send it to the burn wallet.\u201d<\/p>\n

It extended the claim into concrete issuance math and dollar figures: \u201cIf they mine 100% of the Monero blocks this gives them 432 Monero mined per day. This is $118,342.08 at the current Monero price. They keep 50% of that and give the rest to miners making their profit $59,171.04 of Qubic being burned every day. $414,197.28 burned a week and $1.656 million burned every month. This is insane.\u201d The post concluded with the market-cap juxtaposition: \u201cQubic a less than 300 million dollar market cap will be the sole miner of a 6 billion dollar market cap coin.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the XMR community side, the account @monerobull characterized chain conditions as unprecedented and urged a hash-rate mobilization: \u201cMonero just experienced its deepest re-org ever. Everyone head to gupax.io and start mining. qtip has a halving in 20 days, after which they won\u2019t be able to keep this attack going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hardware-wallet executive Charles Guillemet, CTO at Ledger<\/a>, summarized<\/a> the situation and its implications in a long post that did not mince words: \u201cMonero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack.\u201d He tied the moment to Monero\u2019s adversarial history and exchange de-listings<\/a>: \u201cThe privacy-focused blockchain, launched in 2014 and long targeted by governments and 3-letters agencies, is already banned from most major centralized exchanges.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the attacker\u2019s capacity, he wrote: \u201cThe Qubic mining pool has been amassing hashrate for months and now controls a majority of the network. A major chain reorganization was detected this morning. With its current dominance, Qubic can rewrite the blockchain, enable double-spending, and censor any transaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guillemet also injected a jaw-dropping back-of-the-envelope cost: \u201cSustaining this attack is estimated to cost $75 million per day.\u201d He warned of the incentive collapse for honest miners\u2014\u201cOther miners are left with no incentive to continue, as Qubic can simply orphan any competing blocks, effectively becoming the sole miner\u201d\u2014and framed the asymmetry: \u201cIn effect, a $300 million market-cap chain is taking over a $6 billion one. Monero\u2019s options for recovery are limited, and a full takeover is now possible and even likely.\u201d As to market reaction, he added: \u201cSo far, XMR has dropped only 13%.\u201d<\/p>\n

From within the Qubic project, \u201cCome-from-Beyond\u201d (Sergey Ivancheglo) signaled both triumph and a call for third-party validation: \u201cLooks like #Qubic has achieved 51% over #Monero, we are waiting for independent confirmations.\u00a0In the meanwhile #Monero team is polishing details of their 51% attack protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to earlier accusations about motives, he continued: \u201cMany accused us of being sponsored by 3-letter agencies to attack this anon coin. What do you think now, after we has helped Monero to prepare for its future fights against those agencies?..\u201d<\/p>\n

Even as Todd underscores that \u201cPoW is probabilistic\u201d and precise majority measurement is elusive in the moment, the chorus of on-the-record claims from both critics and proponents paints a picture of Monero grappling with a live, majority-hashrate challenge\u2014and a community rushing to counter it in real time.<\/p>\n

At press time, XMR traded at $252.<\/p>\n

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Monero (XMR) is confronting what key voices on X describe as a 51% attack from the Qubic mining pool. Bitcoin developer Peter Todd set the tone early, writing: \u201cInteresting. Apparently Monero just had a big reorg too, I assume related to this attack.\u201d When asked whether Qubic had definitively crossed the 51% threshold, Todd cautioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-41830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}