BTW. Anyone who thinks relying on another network is a good idea (Finality Layer) - is a fucking retard.
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It's true that we should not rush into action without carefully considering the consequences in the short and long term.
The attack still demonstrates an important point of improvement for the Monero ecosystem. We now have a hostile mining pool with too much hashrate and it's time to dust off the theoretical attack scenarios and see what harm it can do and what we can do about it.
The attacker can and does reorg blocks as a consequence of selfish mining. That means less mining rewards for the other miners.
The attacker cannot censor any specific transaction (because the transactions are private so there is no easy way to differentiate any specific one). They could still decide to only mine empty blocks or their own transactions, and that would increase confirmation times for all the other users.
The attacker can try a double spend attack, for example on an exchange. They can deposit XMR at the exchange, get BCH for it and withdraw it. Then they reorg the latest blocks up to before depositing their XMR to add a transaction before that deposit. That transaction will send that previously deposited XMR to one of their other wallets instead of going to the exchange.
If this attack is successful, in the end, they will have both the BCH from the exchange and the XMR in their other wallet.
This is actually why Kraken has increased their confirmation times for XMR to 24 hours. When you increase the confirmation time, you increase the number of blocks between the XMR deposit and the BCH withdrawal in the scenario above. So much so that even with 80% of the hashrate the attack is no longer feasible.
There are other points I guess, but we need to address these. Some action needs to be taken to improve, but as you said, we need to be careful.
Also, after each attack on Monero, there's always someone saying that Monero should have some kind of representative who would publicly refute lies, like with the current 51% issue.
I think it's a very bad idea because such a person would surely be attacked on all possible grounds, including politics (left-right nonsense), personal beliefs, etc., and then people would associate that with Monero.
Monero is Money - a medium to exchange our time and effort in this world - and it should remain blind to what is good and what is evil.
No one blames water for the hundreds of thousands of people who drown each year - we still need it, use it and love it.
Never blame the medium.
Never go full retard.