{"id":42081,"date":"2026-03-31T17:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coinpro.ch\/uncategorized\/monero-under-pressure-how-randomx-2-0-is-supposed-to-help-now\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:57:43","slug":"monero-under-pressure-how-randomx-2-0-is-supposed-to-help-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coinpro.ch\/en\/uncategorized\/monero-under-pressure-how-randomx-2-0-is-supposed-to-help-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Monero Under Pressure: How RandomX 2.0 Is Supposed to Help Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unwanted emergence of ASICs is putting pressure on Monero’s decentralized network. The developers responded and recently released a new version of the mining algorithm. RandomX version 2.0 is intended to close previous vulnerabilities. Expert Hugo Quinterio believes: Securing the network could be linked to ongoing work in the long term.<\/p>\n

Monero Under Pressure: How RandomX 2.0 Is Supposed to Help Now<\/h2>\n

Monero, the largest privacy coin in the crypto market, is under pressure. A Chinese company is attempting to break the RandomX mining algorithm. The blockchain developers are responding and releasing RandomX version 2.0.<\/p>\n

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In September 2023, the Chinese company Bitmine introduced its Antminer X5. What’s special: It was the first optimized miner (ASIC) for RandomX\u2014a mining algorithm specifically designed to prevent optimizations of this kind.<\/p>\n

In January 2026, Bitmain announced it would expand the product line for Monero with the Antminer X9. This should make mining XMR even more efficient. However, the Monero developers are now targeting the approach of the Beijing-based company.<\/p>\n

RandomX 2.0 was already released on March 25. This addresses disadvantages of the previous version that enabled the creation of Monero ASICs in the first place, says crypto expert Hugo Quinteiro<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“That’s the core of the matter: Version 2.0 doesn’t seem to be an attempt to eliminate every form of specialization. It looks more like an effort to remove some unintended advantages that benefited hardware in version 1.0 that was too narrowly tuned to a specific profile,” he writes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This limits the relative advantage that ASICs like the Antminer X5 and X9 were able to achieve, Quinteiro explains. While the two machines can still be used to mine XMR, their performance is no longer excessively high.<\/p>\n