{"id":13260,"date":"2025-08-26T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T23:12:20","slug":"bitcoin-monero-and-51-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/bitcoin-monero-and-51-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin, Monero, and 51% Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These are well done and succinct videos to understand the 51% attack on a proof of work blockchain like Bitcoin and Monero. And we&#8217;ve seen an attempted 51% attack on Monero, but more than likely they never got to 51%.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Bitcoin 51% Attacks Work\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tMmlef3fU8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And a key takeaway for Bitcoin users is that miner centralization is a problem. And he goes over some of the threats involved. Myself, I like the nuclear option of nuking all the ASIC miners as that would be disruptive, and a serious threat to a lot of investment in these ASIC miners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bitcoin, Monero, and 51% Attacks\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S27JB86N_wQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are well done and succinct videos to understand the 51% attack on a proof of work blockchain like Bitcoin and Monero. And we&#8217;ve seen an attempted 51% attack on Monero, but more than likely they never got to 51%. And a key takeaway for Bitcoin users is that miner centralization is a problem. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13261,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions\/13261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}