If the crypto world is never short of dramatic stories, this time, the protagonist has changed to Monero.
This is not a sudden attack, but a prepared power struggle that was announced a month in advance - the attackers even declared in advance that "they would challenge the Monero network from August 2 to August 31." Their goal is aimed at a rare achievement in the crypto world: to control 51% of the hash power of a privacy coin network with a market capitalization of over 5 billion dollars.
And today, the attacker claims to have achieved this goal.
This is a premeditated attack.
We all know that in the blockchain network, all transactions must be verified by miners, a process known as "mining." The computational power of miners is referred to as hash power; the higher the hash power, the greater the chance of mining new blocks and receiving rewards.
Monero coin is the same.
But