On Monero and recent discussions about it losing some of its privacy advantages I've seen on Stacker News, I'll link to nostr:npub1r4jrmus0hqgmx0pulvzvwtdsf34wqvwm768kzway2sruhhv5g6mqcul5p9's post discussing the eXaMinR tool for transparency.
I don't believe he had any malicious intent when revealing this tool, nor will it be relied on to the extent that Chainalysis' services are at the behest of federal government; this tool exists solely to make Monero better, and my hope is that the MRL looks at it and adequately addresses the issues with Monero that makes software like eXaMinR effective in the first place.
Uh
what exactly does that "tool" do that harms monero privacy?
Like tell you if 1/16 of the ring is suspiciously old?
Not impressed.
it's a block explorer with support for tags.
Not a "tracing tool"
The reason he promotes it as such is so people makes posts like this.
I posted it here so that I'm not perceived as mindlessly bashing Bitcoin for its set of problems while refusing to do the same for Monero.
STN did respond on Stacker News to those pointing to Monero's usage of stealth addresses by showing the possibility of the same stealth address being used to obfuscate two separate transactions; I'm not denying Bitcoin is weaker without privacy patches compared to Monero, but it's something worth discussing on the orange side of things as an improvement point.
