Your ISP sells your browsing data in many countries, legally
A no-log VPN is not optional, it’s baseline
Schmidt
schmidt@xmr.rocks
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Free Speech · Privacy · Fungibility
https://monostr.com · https://xmrpay.link · https://neromail.app · https://kashilo.com · https://monero.eco (host) · 🇨🇭
According to my girlfriend, I make two mistakes: first, I never really listen and second... something else.
Three questions for any privacy tool
Who holds the data?
Who holds the keys?
What happens when they’re compelled?
Tails 7.16 is out
Tails - Tails 7.16
Binance $6.3B hack
XMR/BTC last 12 months
0.0036 → 0.0075 ₿ (+109%)
$XMR $BTC
Simulations show rucknium's and ofrnxmr's patches block the Nyx eclipse attack. Hashrate-weighted nodes were proposed, but most nodes don't mine.
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FCMP code is ready for review, audit quotes are due next week, and devs hope to have all the code done by Q1. A BP++ idea could halve proof size, maybe in a later fork.
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Carrot (Monero's new address upgrade) is ready for review! Payment proofs still work, except internal self-sends. Workaround: send to yourself externally.
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Why is Monero’s ring only 16? With ring signatures a bigger anonymity set means a proportionally bigger transaction, so the set stays tiny
FCMP++ grows only logarithmically with the set, so the whole chain can be your anonymity set without a matching jump in size
Now on Obtainium
Soon on F-Droid
👇🏻
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Every cash advocate should run their own #Monero node
It’s criminal to force CEXs to delist Monero
still
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GrapheneOS is coming to the Motorola Signature 27
