SaberhagenTheNameless on Nostr: You're right. But to be fair you wouldn't *necessarily* know government controls over ...

You're right. But to be fair you wouldn't *necessarily* know government controls over 50% of Bitcoins hashrate either. Just say a pool or two become large enough and is in a hostile country like China where government can have complete control over that company but we wouldn't overtly know. Or a growth of miners coming from unknown or scattered origins but really belonging to the same entity.

But I get your point that it is easier to spin up and attack Monero (also potentially easier to pushback against VS ASICs). I guess we would suspect something if everyones transactions were constantly failing mining empty blocks for long enough.