Monero Goes 36 Hours Safe After Qubic Selfish Mining Attacks

Key Notes

Qubic pool executed selfish mining with roughly 36% hashrate, causing chain reorganization but not qualifying as true 51% attack.

The blockchain shows zero orphaned blocks in recent 24-hour period after previously recording 60 during the disruption.

Experts now recommend waiting for 10+ block confirmations due to ongoing vulnerability risks from significant hashrate control.

Monero , the leading privacy-focused cryptocurrency, has gone 36 hours safe from another selfish mining attack by the Qubic pool. Selfish mining is a strategy often seen as malicious that occurs when a miner, with a significant share of the network’s hashrate, intentionally delays broadcasting their mined blocks, causing a chain reorganization (reorg) or fork, invalidating other miners’ blocks and reward