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Last week, Qubic’s claims of a 51% attack on the Monero blockchain sent shockwaves through the cryptosphere. Was the network underpinning the $5 billion privacy coin compromised? Ultimately, it appears that the claims were somewhat overplayed; even Qubic’s founder has admitted as much. However, undeterred, the community has now set its sights on a new target: Elon Musk’s favorite, Dogecoin. The #Qubic community has chosen #Dogecoin. pic.twitter.com/EnevIZUAw5 — Come-from-Beyond (@c___f___b) August 17, 2025 Read more: ‘Please, do not resist’: Qubic hash grab worries Monero maxis 51% or 34% attack? With some doubts surrounding the credibility of the 51% figure, Protos, amongst others, looked into Qubic’s claims of dominating the total hashrate on Monero. “It was a takeover and demonstration” of the project’s “outsourced computation capability,” an administrator of Qubic’s Telegram community told Protos at the time. Since then, deeper analyses ha...

Google announced a new quantum computing chip called Willow, and doomsayers already think it could break Bitcoin in at least two ways. According to Google, Willow can solve in five minutes a problem that would take most supercomputers 10 septillion years to solve. Critics say that this power could overtake Bitcoin’s hashrate in a matter of minutes, rewrite the Bitcoin blockchain, or even steal Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins. The price of bitcoin (BTC) dipped slightly yesterday around the time of Google’s 4pm post-market announcement and over the past 24 hours, remains around 3% lower. Willow reportedly reduces the rate at which qubits “leak” information to the outside, non-quantum environment, improving the chip’s ability to retain information needed for quantum computations. This improves the new chip’s ability to remain quantum instead of becoming a classical chip after too much data leakage. With its breakthrough, Google moved quantum computing one step closer to becoming...