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Key Notes The proposal introduces “late block” penalties to prevent miners from withholding blocks during selfish mining strategies. Reward Splitting would ensure orphaned blocks from honest miners still receive proportional compensation for their work. XMR price dropped 20% since attacks began, trading below $260 while Google searches for privacy coins hit record highs. Monero has been suffering from what is called a selfish mining strategy, or attack, perpetrated by the Qubic Pool—led by Sergey Ivancheglo, also known as Come-from-Beyond (CFB)—as Coinspeaker has been covering. In this context, core contributors, in particular developers from the Monero Research Lab, are discussing ideas to mitigate Qubic’s strategy or prevent such attacks from happening in the future. Among different ideas proposed and discussed in the past few weeks, the “Publish or Perish” proposal by tevador from August 27 is gaining popularity in different circles of Monero supporters. The proposal goes as issue #144 in the research-lab repository of the monero-project organization on GitHub, yet to be formalized as a pull request. It is based on the “Publish or Perish: A Backward-Compatible Defense Against Selfish Mining in Bitcoin” paper by Ren Zhang, published in February 2017. Selfish mining mitigations (Publish or Perish), issue #144 | Source: GitHub, moneroproject/research-lab Overall, this proposal could make selfish mining unprofitable and less disruptive for attackers with less than 51% hashrate, promoting network stability. Dan Dadybayo, Research & Strategy Lead at Unstoppable Wallet, commented exclusively to Coinspeaker on the matter: “Monero’s resilience relies not just on privacy, but on a secure and fair mining process. With a single pool now controlling around 33% of the hashrate, selfish mining becomes a real threat. Honest miners earn less, and network trust can waver,” Dan Dadybayo explained. “The new proposals, like Publish or Perish and Reward Splitting, are important steps. They make selfish…

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