Monero’s consensus is under fire. The Qubic mining pool now controls 2.18 GH/s of Monero hashpower. This would be enough to trigger a 51% attack that forced Kraken to suspend $XMR deposits until 720 confirmations. The community is weighing fixes: from merge mining with Bitcoin to Dash’s ChainLocks, which would add a masternode layer to prevent reorganizations even if attackers had more raw PoW. But with Qubic already voting to target Dogecoin next, the urgency goes beyond Monero. If ASIC-resistant chains remain exposed, how long before other PoW networks face the same pressure?