Make the site look cool:

Monero statistics : network hash rate, tx avg confirmation time etc.

Use sweet matrix green on black font

Wallet download on home page (get monero? get monero now!)

more cool shit, futuristic design, scrolling text

don8d

Dynamic Intelligent Currency Encryption (DICE) is a technological concept designed to enhance the security of paper currency. The system tracks and monitors banknotes in circulation using identifiable characteristics, allowing for the remote devaluation of banknotes involved in fraudulent activities or criminal transactions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_intelligent_currency_encryption

lol

heavy

again with the vague definitions

methadone good, heroin bad. you get your morals from the govt? lame

dont forget stablecoins

i'm skeptical of this plan

https://xcancel.com/BowesChay/status/1813556150933115055

i only use lemmy for monero.town

re: federation, for now it helps keep the dpwnvote spam and random haters out. but they're welcome too if we refed.

my hope is that based admin will get us off cloudflare one fine day

good ep. will be interesting to see how this develops

and lol @ libertarians saying, "I never vote but I'll vote trump if he promises to free ross"

good post

I was reading today that her husband is CEO of a big pharma corp. that corp is owned by pfizer...

and yes she approved the buying of millions of vax doses and approved of mandates...

thanks based admin

lol, just days after this post about coralling rebels onto cloudflare: https://monero.town/post/3622853/5036178

is there a wider attempt at stymying monero's grassroots ecosystem?

if so it seems to be mid-tier, not state-level. and it has been piecemeal, an exchange here and there, and the flood attack last month.

but the use of tor exploits is above the average schmo and as @gogr8 says someone was comitted. we must be doing something right!

also ddos attacks on multiple remaining exchanges - wizardswap, trocador among others in the last week.

some have suggested this corrals sites + services onto cloudflare as a chokepoint for future censorship.

however xmr keeps on ticking even despite mempool flooding last month.

wikileaks tweet

after a long time as a grassroots campaigner

this is welcome news. kind of hard to believe.

as we speak, Assange is on US soil, not out of the woods yet.

but the Aussie PM is pro-assange, at least in word. we'll see.

waiting to see if wikileaks will accept monero (or crypto) for the assange rehabilitation fund and will donate there :)

an historic day

I regularly run Haveno Reto, it's max userbase is 10 but the average is about 8 online at any one time.

I don't think that it's a honeypot as it doesn't make sense. The author argues that the main vulnerability is the manipulation of node selection - but users are free to self-host nodes and use any node, it's not baked into the program. Anyone can set up a 'malicious'' Monero node anyhow. As others have mentioned it seems like the kid who wrote the diss track doesn't really know what's going on (was it Majestic?). Lastly, they end by saying they are a competitor - but they just stopped their work on a localmonero clone - and are leaving the community forever - but please share this post around. Something smells off. But we have to take each anonymous opinion semi-seriously in the internet apparently.

Besides all that, Haveno's not used very much (yet?). There are a few trades offered but none in my jurisdiction. Perhaps this will grow with time, but as yet we aren't seeing 'mass adoption' despite delisting and shutdowns of other p2p exchanges.

I'm more up for posting crypto > XMR trades but it's not quite clear to me how 'Instant' crypto trades are settled, and there was a recent warning about unfulfilled instant crypto-xmr trades being punished. It would be nice to just post up liquidity with a small margin and have it be able to autocomplete trades whilst afk. A boy can dream!

If I were to make the case against Haveno it would be thus:

1. There is no account reputation, like localmonero, to identify users who have regularly fulfilled contracts and are more trustworthy.

1.a. This means that I personally would want 100% backing of the deal in Haveno, which locks away someone's xmr, an unappealing offer.

1.b. Even then we would depend on the fair arbitration to ensure the deal was finished. Fine for crypto trades within Haveno but cash by mail trades? It took localmonero/agora a long time to establish its reputation, and it is a tough job to arbitrate even with 2 benign actors.

2. I have not seen enough evidence that the Arbitrators are fair, non-malicious actors. This is not to say they are bad actors - just there isn't evidence either way.

2.b. The first username I saw of an arbitrator was on the aforementioned warning notice which (no shade) wasn't written in the best English, I suspect English as 2nd language bu. Hopefully this improves.

3. When it was released upon the public, people talked about multiple Haveno instances in competition, muh free market. However, it quickly dwindled to one - I see this as a vulnerability. Even if the diss track's critique is not valid, it could still be compromised in some unknown way and we wouldn't have another instance of Haveno viable as an alternative. There was HardenedSteel but it was quickly deprecated. Does anyone know of another instance? I'd happily run both.

tl;dr : despite being a decentralised p2p facility, Haveno Reto depends on good-faith in arbitrators and whilst it's in beta it's an easy target for fud.

jokes on you, you can't buy monero on centralised exchanges!

hi majestic

isn't it 16^2 ?

must have mixed up your site with another that had online privacy guides

sounds a bit paranoid to be fair

once again i don't know majestic and have no interest.

but I know Tux is a solid guy, I trust his opinion. he's also a busy guy - I don't think there's an international conspiracy paying random small-time accounts to occasionally bash the reputation of a dodgy exchange. or that the exchange is so good and unique that it attracts the ire of bigger powers, it seems very unlikely to me.

are you pro-majestic? if so, can you make an iron man case for the exchange?

once again, I don't actually care about majestic but I'm interested that good info is being passed around the community - particularly at this pivotal era where exchanges are key

hey freedomtools. I'm a fan of your site btw.

just seemed funny.

what do you mean by

corruption ?

surely it's fine to question players in the space, nay, interrogate to get a better idea of whats going on

I called out allark previously. tbh I don't know majestic

The Great Taking is actually a term coined by Robert David Webb - A must read

Full book & Docu available free @ https://thegreattaking.com/

hi majestic

real handy this one

now we just need more users

does hardenedsteel not count?

https://github.com/HardenedSteel/haveno-mainnet/actions/runs/9072024811

maximum privacy and some compromises

care to explain?

and I love a good airdrop - just let my enter my phone number and drivers license into X to join, then I can get my gen 0 gems and finally convert them into Yats to cash in my skyhammers

THEN and only then will we achieve mass adoption.

nothing against fluffy

sad to see localmonero / agoradesk go

a stalwart in the community.

regarding the github proposal:

recanman commented May 12, 2024 •

I've spoken to Alex. This will not happen.

Regarding alternatives, one trader mentioned bitvalve ( https://www.bitvalve.com/ ) which has p2p XMR trades [also I haven't used the site, it could be a huge pot of honey so the onus is fully on you]

although right now it's pretty sparse - the only bank xfer option is rupees but there's quite a few paypal for example.

hoping haveno goes smooth, can't wait for the XDEXs to reign supreme. will spin up a node & instance when it's out of beta

they got something done - how many people got a good service out of coinjoins?

plus they likely awoke many to the problem of ensuring privacy online - particularly in finance, and particularly in crypto

PS: This is good for Monero - sweats profusely

Does this work though if you recieve 'tainted' BTC from the exchange? (more and more likely with an exchange that deals in XMR)

I get that the 'new' BTC won't be associated with your metadata and history but whatever account you spend the 'new' BTC with can still be nuked.

Yes the XMR bridge is a privacy shield but..

Is this the end for BTC fungibility? - ie. has chainalysis tipped the scale past the point of no return?

@Rucknium taking the lead on analysis here.

check the paper he wrote re: the first wave on his git here

https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Black-Marble-Flood/pdf/monero-black-marble-flood.pdf

then on this wave - fat input transactions filling blocks on XMR chain :

Thanks for mentioning my paper. It analyzed the privacy impact of an adversary owning many outputs. The transactions that are congesting the mempool/txpool now have many inputs. There may be a privacy impact of large many-input txs, but I don't have a clear idea of what it would be, and it's not the same as a standard black marble flood.

hb xmr

neither of those sites work

Site looks to be back down for maintenance again.

Upcoming:

-2/3 multisig wallets instead of 3/4

-Inspection and confirmation of transfer details (recipients and amounts) before users sign the transfer

Got a question. Is there a way to open requests for sigmanero to open up certain bets? Eg/ US election

Secondly, I get a Bad SSL Cert alert when accessing the site via www.sigmanero.org - as opposed to just sigmanero.org - is this adjustable in your ssl cert settings as it looks dodgy to a newcomer

check out this episode of monerotalk

https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-304

Roman Sterlingov arrested and charged - without sufficient evidence - for using / operating a bitcoin mixer.

Based purely on SPECULATIVE chainalysis, heuristics cannot guarantee that he was the user. However, as chainalysis is in bed with intelligence services it is their gold standard. Now there is legal precedent to admit SPURIOUS chainalysis evidence in court. As noob judges/juries don't in2 tech they are strong armed by the state into accepting it.

Therefore anyone who holds a tainted bitcoin (or any public ledger crypto) can be tainted by that coin IN LAW and charged for any crime that utxo ever got near.

The lawyers give a great rundown of the case here demonstrating how badly justice has failed.

-He KYC'd BTC in 2011 on Mt Gox -His utxo's bounced around a few wallets and ended up being used to buy the bitcoinfog domain [he is accused of buying the domain w/o proof] -He later pulled some BTC out of Bitcoinfog into KYC'd exchanges to off-ramp [he is accused of being paid by bitcoinfog for services w/o proof]

The fact that the ghouls are harvesting data from early days (eg/ 2011) that anyone who ever KYC'd anywhere can be linked by chainalysis with a crime. Hence a cooling effect on crypto writ large.

Hey, this is a great idea.

I've been brainstorming how to create a political betting site using Monero - would Sigmanero ecosystem be easily adaptable to politcal events (eg/ elections) as well as sporting bets?

For me the main point of influence is the 'oracle' - who decides that the event is over and what the result is. If the lakers win 20-5 then it's easy but if there's extra time or the game is abandoned then the oracle becomes arbiter. Likewise in an election if the result is unclear or disputed then it is hard to definitively say who won within a given time frame.

At no point in time will Sigmanero have controls of funds

If Sigmanero is the oracle in this scenario - the could falsely declare that the Celtics won and could thereby designate funds (along with the losing bet-signer who wouldn't mind winning some xmr). Therefore there is still a corruptible element.

Whilst I agree that for small amounts there isn't a temptation to cheat - that argument doesn't scale. Many betting facilities in crypto gain traction due to their ease of use - and in XMR it could get big too as it's private. Then we can envision a superbowl-tier event where there are big bets going down and the temptation and facility to rugpull is there. I'm not doubting you / Sigmanero's character just the game theory. As I say I'm keen to see your project work.

Sidenote: Does Sigmanero take donations? Or is it voluntarily hosted? The funding question helps users understand the motives behind the project. I would donate but be suspicious of a 'free' betting website.

PoS

Piece of Shit

This one was super interesting.

Have been looking at Monero based voting systems for a while as I think it's a distinctly lacking application of cryptographic technologies.

do check out the website : cryptopoll.org

[It's not "Monero based" but it copy and pastes the ring signature part of the code as the basis for a voting mechanism - each participant's PGP signature joins a total ring and creates a validating but obfuscating voting mechanism]

those are all tax havens, coincidence?

also could be vpn locations

super lame, but interesting!

does someone who is capable of a massive attack on XMR actually believe that lightning is the answer? skeptical.

it also reminds me of the suspicious mempool flood in BTC in 2015 - https://bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/july-2015-flood-attack

Looking through various sources I have a short list of causes for high tx count:

Unlikely:

1. BTC ATH sellers off ramping to a much better cryptocurrency that preserves privacy

2. XMR trending as a massive gainer (after a drop) attracts traders

More Likely:

3. Chain analysis firm floods the tx pool so that their heuristic analysis can pinpoint some XMR transactions

4. Binance has released the secret store of XMR they had stacked up before delisting for unknown reasons

5. A Monero Whale is churning a large amount of XMR

5.b) 'Incognito Market' [darknet market] is reportedly exit scamming - escrows estimated in the millions of USD of XMR

Nobody has put forward a clear case yet, and most Monero folks are nonplussed. However, XMR's dynamic block size is making much better work of the flood than other cryptos and tx fees remain fairly level throughout so at least it's a good stress test.

I want to be a part of it too so I'm gonna throw a few more transactions into the pool right now :)

o7