It really does seem awfully coincidental that instead of fixing Monero, Fluffypony et al are focusing on Tari which reasonably addresses the centralization problems now inherent to RandomX and the targeting 51% attacks. It feels rugpully. There’s billions of dollars of people’s savings in Monero, and instead of fixing it they are moving onto a new chain. Whatever, I’m merge mining Tari, getting in on the airdrop, etc. It’s no skin off of my back really. The XMR and XTM communities are very close. But it pretty grifty that all the things that should have been done in XMR are now being done in Tari. Rather than finish the product that people have seriously invested in just move on and start a new one. Disappointing. Sometime after the airdrop I might flip a good chunk of my XMR roll for XTM.
Tari Universe has incredible UX for a privacy by default blockchain. Best in class. It’s just sad they didn’t put this effort into Monero first.
I am sure the usage of SHA3 beside RandomX will address the immediate FUD-advanced miner attacks like from that one Q-something chain that is basically a crypto-participation-incentivized voluntary botnet run by the katsap shithead, but I doubt it will pull enough to seriously secure the network. There’s no reason why someone couldn’t make a similar chain for GPUs and do the same thing. Intermittent proof of stake every n blocks seems like it would be better than just a grab bag of RandomX, C29, SHA3.
Anyways despite the negative post I hope Tari does well. I am accumulating.