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eu nΓ£o respondo pq Γ© um dos ΓΊnicos q eu mutei logo cedo no nostr, vive postando pornografia e coisas de degenerado, entΓ£o nem sei se ainda vive falando de Monero ou nΓ£o

Never forget when this guy made a rap song video wearing a Monero hoodie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRxalfwCS5E

this is a good question.

"Do you store value in BTC, or do you want it to go to zero?"

Well, not quite either, because if you follow libertarian ethics what you believe in is not a single currency supremacy, but rather that a free market of currencies shall exist, and "good money drives out bad money", which doesn't mean the bad money goes to zero, it starts getting deprecated with time, while better money is the preference in the markets, but the "bad money" in question will still be accepted due to its long history, liquidity and network effects, until there's not a single soul anymore willing to trade it.

Want an example? The current dark web economy. Of course Monero is the preferred method of payment but we can't deny bitcoin still has a presence there, it is not going to simply be removed from everywhere, some markets will be all monero-only but others will monetize from the fact that you can still accept BTC and use that with Monero side-by-side, and that could go on forever with 2 currencies as money, you don't need to "save" in both but due to market forces they're also "safe" from not going to zero.

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Ah there it is, yes the century old argument, "run by feds" so you also think Ross Ulbricht hired hitmans, and that silk road had no impact on Bitcoin and it was actually bad press for it, kinda like what leftists say?

Why would I be triggered if that is a bait post considering the facts are on my side and I have nothing to worry about just laugh and look and Bitcoiner cope and FUD ? Maybe you can tell us instead, we're all listening, Mr DarthCoin is about to say who is the currency of the dark web for us:

Hurry, someone tell the black market, we got some deep research here that everyone else at high stakes missed!

We need to be QUICK and tell Dread and DNM users to use LN!!!

FCMP = Full chain membership proofs, that means every tx includes a ring where the "decoys" are all transactions in existence, that bumps the anon set from 1 in 16 senders, to 1 in 100 million, basically removing the concept of decoys and saying your transaction has a sender that is unknown, and can be anyone ever

You should research more about it! I'm not a genius on it but it's the current hot topic in the space, you can watch the dev Luke Parker, or read the paper on it, it also explains a bit more on tx chaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxPulIjhXwg

https://github.com/kayabaNerve/fcmp-plus-plus-paper/blob/develop/fcmp%2B%2B.pdf

https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html

Replying to Avatar Sjors Provoost

Quite a few wallet fingerprints, which you can't really blame on the protocol. But it does seem that combining lots of funds in a single transaction undoes the benefits of decoys. Bad news for merchants.

Hiding among N decoys is of limited use when law enforcement is really interested in you and just checks all N of them. Chainalysis has tools to make that easier. The video doesn't explain how they filter some of the decoys.

Also Chainalysis once again admits they're collecting IP addresses without consent. And that they're running bait "RPC" nodes, though it's really insane that any wallets connect to them over clearnet (albeit sometimes with VPN). But there are very bad Bitcoin wallets too.

Dandelion and 1-shot Tor broadcast (easier) remain good ideas.

Perhaps increasing the number of decoys to hundreds would fix the issue for a while.

Fundamentally though, it's better to not leave any bread crumbs on a blockchain, or other public spaces, to begin with. Which is why I think Lightning is a better design in theory. But beware of practice. If you e.g. use a custodial wallet, they know who you're paying (until blinded paths). As a recipient things are even worse.

So I guess both Monero and Lightning still suck for merchants (charities), but might be good enough for individual customers (donors).

Also note that the goal of chain analytics isn't necessarily to collect sufficiently strong evidence for conviction. Finding a (tractable number of) suspect(s) may be enough, then they know where to look for additional evidence. Being marked as a suspect by a black box algorithm should still be serious legal issue though.

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Good post, the next upgrade FCMPs++ fixes all issues with decoys, plus opens the door for tx chaining and for Monero to have a L2 like the LN therefore competing directly with bitcoin's L1 and bitcoin's LN

bitcoiners actually try to argue who has more privacy: LN or visa/mc LMAO

it's not like the point of privacy is literal surveillance, not if your payment "is published or not", and LN, visa/mc don't win because "payments are kept secret", they lose the privacy debate because they are an open door for surveillance πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

https://x.com/puunchyyy/status/1887916262614815109

yes. they are all talk they'll always say they can trace

Quantos desses acha que entrega no Brasil? A economia circular cadΓͺ? O bitcoin tem vΓ‘rios anos no mercado, vale 100 mil dΓ³lares, e ao redor da gente nΓ£o tem nenhum brasileiro com um comΓ©rcio em BTC a menos que more em Rolante?

Vendas internacionais aleatΓ³rias tem um monte na https://xmrbazaar.com/ tambΓ©m, e como eu disse Γ© melhor usar moeda forte para isso

E compras digitais tambΓ©m, parabΓ©ns pagou mullvad vpn KKKK:

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