Qubic drops Monero for Dogecoin ASIC mining after capturing 51% of XMR hashrate, dedicates full GPU fleet to AI

Qubic used XMR as a $3.5M proof-of-concept, triggered an 18-block reorg, then bounced — and Monero's RandomX design is exactly why. ASIC-resistance forces mining onto the same CPUs/GPUs that AI training needs, creating a direct resource conflict where compute was splitting 50/50 between hashing and Aigarth. Moving to Scrypt-based DOGE lets dedicated ASICs handle mining while 100% of compute goes to AI — Monero accidentally made itself both attackable and replaceable by optimizing for hardware that's now worth more doing inference than hashing.

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