01:32:35 that's great! could you install rustdesk and give me your access code? i'm just a friendly TERRORISM PREVENTER™ who wants to make sure you're not doing anything wrong 😊 03:10:17 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/monero.social/kEwBrUIAwWtBMMxwOEAHTfoC 03:10:18 Lets gooo babyyyy 03:15:33 Any tips for a new graphene user? 03:16:09 Also are there any cloud storage services (trying to back up my images) that accept monero? 03:22:10 Idea: create “banbanmonero.com”, which advocates for banning banmonero from existing, because “being a terrible straw man for your own cause is a surefire way to let le criminals win” 03:22:27 (That url shouldn’t be clicked currently) 03:24:02 Assuming banmonero isn’t a troll, which it could be, but idk, parts of it seem a bit too real 03:42:00 it's got a "disposal" address, lol 03:44:17 image.png 03:44:24 Waiting for the cease and desist letter any time now. Lol. 03:46:50 <321bob321:monero.social> Emailed to hardware⊙go? 04:09:12 https://xcancel.com/rottenwheel1/status/1831903530187424235 04:59:52 Rucknium: looks like the fee issue you identified in Exodus ended up having an impact for a real world investigation 05:02:10 It was so bad for Exodus that you can see their tracing tool can identify Exodus wallet transactions from everything else without additional info lol 05:17:43 Did exodus fix it ? 05:39:21 https://old.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/r/Monero/comments/176e1zr/privacy_advisory_exodus_desktop_users_update_to/ 05:56:03 someone spamming blockchain with 30/2 05:56:56 What does that mean? 06:04:12 it's satire 06:04:45 it's basically like the "I want to do something illegal... in minecraft" thing 06:05:37 I ran the biggest Minecraft server in the world in 2012 06:06:06 It was only the biggest for 2 years 😂 06:07:59 https://p2pool.io/explorer/txpool scroll that page and notice 20kb txs 06:18:53 hey guys sorry to bother you but is the monero blockchain down? My funds have been unspendable for an hour or two so far; it usually takes only 20 minutes of course 06:19:23 I reinstalled GUI wallet and restored from seed but my funds are still stuck 06:21:09 its strange because i see new blocks being created 06:22:41 is your txid visible on any monero blockchain explorer? 06:22:42 recommended: https://p2pool.io/explorer 06:22:43 Mempool is full at the moment 06:22:44 Blockchain down would be a great title for a blockbuster 06:23:20 I see so that means I should just wait until tommorrow morning I guess 06:23:22 So your transaction doesn't have high enough fee to be mined quickly 06:23:45 No, it will probably take max a few hours to clear the mempool 06:23:53 Ah I see 06:24:02 its not usually like this right? because it hasnt happened before 06:24:34 at least for the past month or two that ive been using Monero 06:24:51 Last time it happened was in March 06:24:57 https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-transactions.html#3y 06:25:31 I see wow thats a massive spike lol 06:25:46 but i dont see one for today interesting 06:28:17 Today is much smaller scale and it will register on that chart after 24 hours 06:28:24 Ah I see 06:28:58 I was wondering if I did something stupid with my wallet haha; thanks a lot for the help 06:47:30 wow reddit is such a shithole now 06:47:33 https://imgur.com/a/KwvkKMr 06:51:29 now? where you been for the past 5 years? 06:51:48 true 06:51:55 btw I didn't get any notification of why it was removed 06:52:59 did u have a link there? all I remember was a best practices sort of thing 06:53:10 is this spam or just some exchange consolidation? 06:53:57 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/monero.social/emuCxoEssNiPglUzOaFuwLcF 06:54:33 I edited with a couple new links to the Chainalysis video 06:54:43 and it got removed 06:55:42 got it. wow they’re going all out 06:56:58 btw lol https://monero.town/post/4220893 06:57:29 btw lol https://monero.town/post/4220893 https://nyxmr.top/archive/videos/crypto/chainalysis_XMR.mp4 06:59:36 I deleted my first Reddit account out of dissatisfaction, then tried to register another one and it got shadowbanned for pretty much no reason (the comments were very innocent, I blame the custom email domain) 07:01:18 so chainalysis tries to deanonymize monero users, by running monero nodes, to get their ip addresses is what i understood 07:01:21 me mention 07:01:56 waiting on the C&D from chainalysis in my inbox 07:02:16 cookies and donuts 07:02:29 Changenow and Fixedfloat also seem to be the FBI honeypots 07:02:42 and they share users' data with Chainalysis (IP, transaction amounts) 07:03:03 Good thing my threat model is low) 07:03:08 oh yeah any Centralised exchange that forces you to KYC IS a honeypot 07:03:10 and probably their wallet data too (to help eliminate decoys from transactions) 07:03:43 Even with my threat model, I would never KYC on an exchange. Having to do it in places like the bank or the mobile carrier is enough already. 07:03:54 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/nyxmr.top/gtdaEdeRtweGutwlfaaLOgXI 07:03:58 At least just because this shit is leaky. 07:04:13 more likely just that the feds asked "hey what are your node IPs" 07:04:19 at least imo 07:04:52 Where is the table screenshot from? That video? 07:05:22 yeah 07:06:32 is all of chainalysis just an ugly excel sheet 07:06:40 seems that way lmao 07:06:45 even their internal tooling looks like excel 07:07:07 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/nyxmr.top/xnxVfxtIcExAvHYHlFDVMMeS 07:08:01 Not like in Hollywood hacker movies, I'm disappointed 07:08:15 is this just their xmr tooling and the other stuff looks nicer? 07:08:23 internal tooling doesn't even have proxy/vpn detection 07:08:24 they have to outsource that to ipqualityscore 😂 07:08:39 Why would you want nice looking things 07:08:51 to sell 07:08:54 not sure, I don't have internal access 07:09:18 They sell the data, not the data presentation 07:09:22 you also get this guy in the corner near the end of the video 07:09:24 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/nyxmr.top/BGQGaGCyQBUNpoikntrcoYSX 07:10:22 i thought they sold access to their platform 07:10:27 i thought it would be more like arkham 07:10:57 I Don't Know actually. But it's my guess 07:11:16 you know, smart, nice lines connecting wallets, etc. not a guy taking IPs from an excel sheet and googling "is this ip a vpn" 07:12:05 i bet they made this entire thing only to claim they can trace monero & get the bounty 07:12:29 and sometimes someone manually does all of this stuff for big cases 07:12:52 but most of the time they just prey on IP data 07:12:53 image.png 07:13:08 They can't do that obviously, monero's quite good 07:13:19 and most of their LE requests end in an email going "We couldnt find anything" 07:13:23 most they can do is prey on bad opsec 07:13:48 connecting node usage and deducing decoys 07:14:07 which means running your own node renders their methods unusable 07:14:24 and FCMP++ will fully break it 07:14:41 I don't know if this could be parallel construction, but all the times I saw "Tor or Monero user revealed", there is a very plausible OPSEC mistake... 07:15:20 well not always 07:15:24 not always but more often than not 07:15:33 bad opsec is the worst enemy of privacy tooling 07:15:38 there was also that time the feds exploited tor browser and installed backdoors 07:16:05 just look at what happened to incognito market 07:16:18 i think you had to go on a compromised site for that 07:16:51 oh yeah and fedbois love setting up honeypots after getting control of a service 07:16:58 just gathering evidence before the full seizure 07:17:04 monerobull, were there cases when the exploit was Javascript-less btw? 07:17:15 Seems like those would be more expensive... 07:18:00 look up "fbi running half the darknet child porn sites" or something along those lines 07:18:07 from what I can tell all we know is it was a zero day 07:18:11 Incognito? Did see the story but not caught up yet (still). Was he caught because of the transparent crypto transactions or something? I don't remember seeing his main mistakes... 07:18:30 pharao was a moron 07:18:32 monerobull, no thanks, I am out of brain bleach. 07:18:38 he made many mistakes 07:19:14 I wonder if some of the people whom he tried to extort snitched on him lol 07:19:15 like, googling, with his personal google account "what to do when server is down" live while the fbi was copying it 07:19:18 ah 07:19:42 no he was essentially caught 2 years before the arrest 07:19:49 the big mistake pharaoh did was to exchange BTC for something else on a KYC exchange 07:20:28 also exchanging btc through a swapper with bad policy and then complaining on dread "they took my btc D:" 07:20:36 classified even 07:21:00 i replied to a reddit post of him ones lol 07:21:10 nihilist, ah! Yeah, I remember it now. He also spent it on something stupid. 07:22:11 ok I think I found something 07:22:14 seems to have been js 07:22:47 when you have tainted BTCs by default and you go and KYC yourself somewhere using that same wallet, "well shit i should've used monero!" 07:23:02 well to be fair he did use monero 07:23:07 just poorly 07:23:40 iirc the swapping service he used to go from btc -> xmr was kyc and that's how he was caught 07:23:44 https://matrix.monero.social/_matrix/media/v1/download/matrix.org/QNngxDQLFNWPsMSQhZQdLftV 07:24:14 no he wasnt THAT stupid 07:24:28 yeah been a while since I watched it 07:24:48 but he did send btc from DNM wallet to swapper and then directly to kyc exchange 07:24:54 that's worse 07:25:29 HMMMM i wonder who could have made this 1.3 BTC worth of XMR deposit after 1.3 BTC went from the DNM wallet to an instant swapper 07:25:43 yes very good question 07:25:46 maybe it was joe 07:25:48 with only ~20 minutes delay 07:26:00 it was probably joe 07:26:16 "which means running your own node renders their methods unusable" <- also not forgetting to churn your inputs (they can detect consolidation transactions) 07:26:17 yea just watch the volumes coming in and out, preety easy to know who did it 07:26:42 well with FCMP++ their methods will be rendered void anyways 07:27:00 Why tf would you use a KYC SWAPPER of all things. At least buying crypto for fiat is semi-understandable, but swappers are so common KYCless! 07:27:02 WHY 07:27:23 The method of IP farming, waiting for a dummy to submit a transaction to them over clearnet won't be, though 07:30:03 this might be a silly question but what if we made wallet in simple mode behave like node 07:30:35 ok no thats very stupid 07:31:06 youd need to connect to multiple nodes and they could probably easily tell you are sending data slower than the other nodes 08:11:18 monerobull that might be a "light node" https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/69 08:23:19 i also have a potentially stupid question, as monero takes time to verify all the transactions at first, what if there was an optional way to "trust" the node's verifications to speed that up 08:24:02 we have a trusted node setting already 08:24:13 nah i mean, even with that it takes hours to sync up 08:24:15 but youre not verifying blocks in your wallet 08:24:34 nah i mean, even with that it takes hours to sync up initially 08:24:43 you are checking if you have any transactions 08:25:21 like this? https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/#blockchain 08:25:41 you cant just trust random nodes 08:25:59 they could literally re-write history 08:28:19 let me re-phrase it: so you install monero for the first time, and you choose a trusted remote node. initially it takes hours to sync up right 08:28:30 let me re-phrase it: so you install monero for the first time, and you choose a trusted remote node. initially it takes hours to sync up anyway right 08:28:48 <321bob321:monero.social> trust me i have lollies 🤫 08:29:20 let me re-phrase it: so you install monero for the first time, and you choose a trusted remote node. initially it takes hours to sync up anyway right, trying to brainstorm on what could speed it up 08:29:26 yes but you can skip verifications via https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/#blockchain 08:30:08 we really dont want the default to be "rely on trusted nodes not being compromised" 08:30:43 the network could slowly be infiltrated and "rot" away 08:31:10 especially not in the name of making initial sync a bit faster 09:04:07 e> let me re-phrase it: so you install monero for the first time, and you choose a trusted remote node. initially it takes hours to sync up right 09:04:17 Wrong 09:05:38 When you use monero for the first time, and using a trusted remote node, your wallet starts at the chain near the chain tip 09:05:57 At or aroun the chain tip 09:06:04 Syncing takes seconds 09:06:25 they are talking about spinning up a new node+ 09:06:26 they are talking about spinning up a new node 09:32:31 lets turn this into comments and reviews on https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/pull/2241 09:33:32 https://www.themoneromoon.com/p/the-monero-moon-issue-74 09:49:50 I've got a shitload of those, with the exact same wording, every 2-3 days, to different aliases. They never contained any actual information, only treats of exposing all the illegal activities I've supposedly engaged in. Total bullshit. 09:57:36 yea makes sense 11:07:34 doubt there are any competent services that accept Monero. You can start selfhosting and paying for Stortage VPS in Monero. 11:08:25 enable duress pin, to wipe device when entering specific PIN 11:08:46 تطبيقات خصوصية و امان للأندرويد: 11:08:46 InviZible Pro / Orbot 11:08:48 Brave 11:08:50 Obtainium 11:08:52 F-Droid 11:08:54 SimpleX Chat 11:08:56 NewPipe / Libretube 11:08:58 RiMusic 11:09:00 Aegis Authenticator 11:09:02 KeepassDX 11:09:04 OpenKeychain 11:09:06 <321bob321:monero.social> Dont get banned by daniel 11:09:17 InviZible Pro / Orbot 11:09:18 Brave 11:09:20 Obtainium 11:09:22 F-Droid 11:09:24 SimpleX Chat 11:09:26 NewPipe / Libretube 11:09:28 RiMusic 11:09:30 Aegis Authenticator 11:09:32 KeepassDX 11:09:34 OpenKeychain 11:09:36 Breezy Weather 11:10:07 forwarded 11:12:18 You forgot gmail 11:13:51 can use Droidfy (Modern F-droid client) 11:13:52 just stalk people on twitter posting their grapheneos setup etc and choose the one you need 11:22:21 email not secure way for communication and PGP sucks, use protonmail and an alias like simplelogin to prevent spam when signing up to services 11:29:38 nah, people think cartel or whatever are competent in tech, they are not. 11:30:15 they kidnap CS students to do basic tech stuff, don't expect that level of "doxxing" or "hacking" 11:43:15 ProtonVPN is also a really solid way to connect to the havneo app, it does it better than Orbot if you use one of their tor nodes, paid tho 11:44:23 For VPNs: Mullvad, IVPN, ProtonVPN 11:44:29 I think the worst was InviZible, so flakey couldn’t get it to keep a reliable connection, perhaps I didn’t configure well 12:00:02 if only proton worked for me here 12:02:34 Stealth protocol don't work? (Wireguard over TLS) 12:02:39 if you want extreme privacy/Nation state target, never insert a SIM card and always use Airplane mode. For the initial setup of device, do it away from your home becuase there will be some identifiers sent to cell tower 12:02:52 oh maybe you're on liux 12:06:11 I think the way forward is more stealthy shit anyway. 12:07:43 all of these offer obfuscation if your country/place uses DPI 12:08:53 <321bob321:monero.social> Hide in bunker with rpi5 12:09:19 Maybe those were just the servers (at least the free tier) IPs being banned. 12:09:57 Also I find the wall above hilarious because it went over things we already know unprompted, and lasted a bit. I thought that was a spammer) 12:24:20 User error! 12:43:03 isn't invizible just Tor? 12:43:06 isn't invizible just Tor/I2P? 12:43:26 you'd probably have a better experience using either of their respective purpose built apps 12:44:53