Estimating an Upper Bound for the Impact of Chain Splits on Monero

Justin Ehrenhofer
Sep 3, 2018 · 5 min read

In early 2018, the Monero community and developers were preparing for the Monero v7 protocol upgrade when something caught us by surprise: Monero airdrops.

Airdrops were all the rage at the beginning of the year, with people forking cryptocurrencies with the hope of printing additional coins out of thin air. We had seen other communities subjected to these pumps and dumps, but we didn’t make the connection to Monero. Until MoneroV came along.

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