Monero Hard Fork Is Successful But Hash Rate Falls Drastically
Monero(XMR) hard fork updated successfully, but the hash rate of the Monero network drops severely. According to a Reddit post, as a result of controlling the ASIC mining, the
Activated on block 1788000, the network upgrade was live in such a way to introduce several new improvements like
Features Of The Upgrade
One of the most important features of this upgrade v10 (Boron Butterfly) has been directing the Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) with Cryptonight-R PoW. According, to some reports the network has been occupied by ASIC miners again, this poses the risk of centralization where it is more prone to a 51
There was a problem with the new Monerujo v1.11.3 that made it stuck scanning, we figured it out. It was a config error that pulled old monero version into build. It’s fixed on hot v1.11.4 and available everywhere! #oops https://t.co/2C24VLzpKd— Monerujo (@monerujowallet) March 10, 2019
Basically, the hard fork implemented the CryptoNight-R algorithm which will disable all the ASIC mining software code, hence, preventing future mining through ASIC chips. Also, after this hard
Similarly, on March 8th the Monero mining service ‘
With a market cap of $835 million and price $49.61 Monero has been down as per the data provided by Coinmarketcap.
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