{"id":686194,"date":"2025-08-20T21:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/51-attack-on-monero-prompts-proposal-to-overhaul-consensus-mechanism\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:55:14","slug":"51-attack-on-monero-prompts-proposal-to-overhaul-consensus-mechanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/51-attack-on-monero-prompts-proposal-to-overhaul-consensus-mechanism\/","title":{"rendered":"51% attack on Monero prompts proposal to overhaul consensus mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several solutions have been proposed to bolster Monero\u2019s proof-of-work consensus mechanism to prevent 51% attacks on the network.<\/p>\n

The Monero community is exploring a potential overhaul of its proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to make the network resistant to 51% attacks.<\/p>\n

Community members suggested several proposals<\/a>, including localizing mining hardware, switching to a merge mining algorithm,\u00a0 allowing XMR to be mined alongside Bitcoin (BTC) or other major cryptocurrencies, and adopting<\/a> Dash\u2019s ChainLocks solution.<\/p>\n

Dash\u2019s ChainLocks uses \u201crandomly selected masternodes\u201d to reach a quorum on the first valid block broadcast by the network, locking the blockchain ledger into place and app<\/a>ending the chain only with blocks verified through the ChainLock system. This would function on top of the existing PoW Consensus.<\/p>\n

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Several solutions have been proposed to bolster Monero\u2019s proof-of-work consensus mechanism to prevent 51% attacks on the network. The Monero community is exploring a potential overhaul of its proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to make the network resistant to 51% attacks. Community members suggested several proposals, including localizing mining hardware, switching to a merge mining algorithm,\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-08\/0198c861-3cfe-7825-ba9b-e19fbc21e313","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74867,74894,76326,74963],"class_list":["post-686194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-altcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-dash","tag-monero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}