4 Sep 2025 [research] [mining]

BawdyAnarchist creates Monero PoW Simulator

BawdyAnarchist1 has created Monero PoW Simulator2 - a modular simulation environment that can be used to test Proof of Work countermeasures against selfish mining3 strategies:

Not only will we be able to test various countermeasures to selfish mining, but we’ll hopefully be able to test their second order effects, and maybe even learn more about how network partitioning might affect the network.4

Features overview

* Multi-Pool Simulation
* Pluggable Strategies
* Stochastic Network Model
* Multi Threaded
* Accurate Difficulty Adjustment

Consult the Github repository2 for installation instructions.

It is worth mentioning that this project is part of the community defensive reaction5 to the ongoing Qubic selfish mining attack6 against Monero.

Note that this is the alpha release; inspect the code before using.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.

  1. https://github.com/BawdyAnarchist/ ↩

  2. https://github.com/BawdyAnarchist/Monero-Simulator ↩ ↩2

  3. https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0243 ↩

  4. https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1n7hvf3/ ↩

  5. https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/144, https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/10064 ↩

  6. https://rekt.news/hashrate-heist-or-hype ↩