Monero hides sender, receiver and amount by default
Not a setting. Not an option. The baseline.
Schmidt
schmidt@xmr.rocks
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Free Speech · Privacy · Fungibility
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Privacy is not a premium feature
It’s a default right that got slowly taken away
The parasitic elites have bankrupted the world.
A lot of the distractions you see in the media are meant to cover up that reality.
They had to bundle ZEC with Dash because they know it’s worth less than 1% on its own.
When an app trusts an unpatched 5-year-old phone but blocks a fully patched hardened one, the gatekeeping was never about security
It’s about who controls your device, you or the vendor
Your browser history is a complete profile of your life
Delete it regularly
Treat it like mail you don’t want lying around
SimpleX has no user IDs
Not even a phone number
Only found if someone has your QR
Monero may get free AI security audits from Anthropic. Most favor joining, but some worry about privacy, AI training, and corporate influence.
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IT MUST BE REALLY SAD NOT TO HAVE 1 XMR
Monero devs are testing Share-or-Perish, a new fork-choice rule. They found potential peer bans and hard-fork voting conflicts that may need fixing.
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Monero devs are working on defenses against the Nyx attack, which can isolate nodes. Over 2,500 suspicious IPs reported; fixes are being tested.
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Monero’s beta stressnet is running smoothly. Developers are checking transaction-relay v2 test logs before deciding if it’s ready for mainnet.
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Monero’s FCMP++ upgrade is progressing: a key code licensing issue is nearly resolved, multisig and security audits continue and bug fixes are underway
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Nym mixnet routes traffic through multiple hops with cover traffic
Even timing correlation attacks fail
The tradeoff: latency
Telegram is not private
Default chats are unencrypted server-side
Don’t use it for anything sensitive
Monero: v0.18.5.3 'Fluorine Fermi' has been released!
getmonero.org, The Monero Project
Blog: Monero GUI 0.18.5.3
Highly recommended release including a large number of bug fixes.