You are right. A fork to protect itself is the option on bot...

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2026-08-30T21:21:36Z

↳ Reply to Hanshan (npub1lxzaxzge0jq9u9cecucctdt5lslwgp7hcxmp2l0wn8r2ecjenwasu6svxa)

This appears to be about the right figure vis a vis the price of a large-scale hash attack on monero. however. It would take a year or two to find t...

You are right. A fork to protect itself is the option on both cases. But in one of the case it's much cheaper per watt to mine and thus you could just participate instead of attack and the price to attack is 100m vs 10b... So you could attack and cause a fork 100x more on Monero than you could on Bitcoin.

Money is a zero sum game.

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