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Dash· 2025-08-21 15:26
RT Mpost Media Group (@mpost_io)🗳️ @monero community is considering a potential overhaul of its proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to strengthen resistance against 51% attacks, following recent activity linked to @_Qubic_.Community members have put forward several proposals, including localizing mining hardware, implementing merged mining to allow XMR to be mined alongside #Bitcoin or other major #crypto assets, and adopting Dash’s ChainLocks solution.@Dashpay’s ChainLocks leverages “randomly selected ...
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Dash· 2025-08-21 14:03
It's a good time to read up on how ChainLocks prevents not only 51% attacks, but secret and selfish mining as well.As usual, Dash built things right from the beginning.Dash (@Dashpay):Dash has deterministic, not probabilistic, finality for transactions! 🧠This makes Dash much more certain and secure than cryptocurrencies which have to wait for block confirmations in order to be secure.Yes: a Dash payment may be more secure than a Bitcoin transaction will https://t.co/mXtbN1qp6R ...