Recently, the option to trade and withdraw (!!!) Monero was suddenly gone for about a day without a word from them on what is going on. I would stay away.
While it's true that some targeted attacks can lower the privacy of a Monero transaction, 2-3 churns (or the upgrade to FCMPs) will make even those nearly impossible.
It is arguably waaaaaay more likely that you'll have trouble when selling Monero for fiat (on the fiat side) than you getting in trouble because of the Moneros "history".
Could be but I don't think so. We have seen increased transactions around summertime before, imo it's people buying stuff to use during summer vacation.
There's also the fact that more and more xmr transactions move away from binance-like-CEX to instant swappers. Oh and of course, the binance delisting was officially concluded 2 days ago and it was the last chance for people to withdraw their coins.
On matrix the meetings are held and people just generally hang out. There is still r/monero & r/monerosupport as well as monero.town but that one's a bit less accessible for people new to Monero.
The serai coin is mainly used as stake and pair for liquidity pools, it's not supposed to be used for payments. Imo taint is less of an issue, you're only at risk when not using Monero and that's the case no matter if you got the coins from Serai or any other exchange.
Im quite happy with the pace monero.town is growing, especially since it was initially only set up as a fallback in case the subreddit gets banned.
Serai requires it's own coin for the design to work, there is no real way around it.
Most of the regulars are hanging out on matrix. There are actually a lot of exciting things in the pipeline: Monerokon, Haveno, Serai, FCMPs, etc.
People have said the current bullrun in general is boring and the excitement is nothing compared to the last one. And Monero isn't even participating in the current bullrun :P
Supportxmr is growing uncomfortably large :/
Great post 🚀
Really like the idea but see some problems with it.
the demand for illegal narcotics from people smart enough to use Tor Browser is probably at the end of its elasticity
While this is likely true, it doesn't get easier to use Tor depending on whether you want to buy a fake Gucci sweater or black tar heroin.
I do believe Monero still has massive potential in swallowing up many P2P drug transactions should CBDCs be used to really clamp down on cash and when that happens, other sectors will be affected as well: "You're carbon credit allowance for this month has run out, no more meat for you."
I don't actually think 150GB per year is an issue. This still gives you +5 years on a 1TB SSD. That's half a decade of time, Monero is only 10 years old. Plenty of time for storage to advance.
Agreed. Currently we are at ~190 GB with ~8.5 GB growth over the last 3 months. This is just 34 GB per year and a 500 GB SSD would last another 7 years at the current growth-rate. You can already get 2 TB SSDs for less than 150€. Storage really isn't the issue, the biggest limitation is bandwidth.
Space nodes are at best useful as a marketing stunt. It's really the worst place to put a computer. A node in a bunker is much safer and is actually maintainable after its initial deployment, if you need coverage anywhere on earth, Elon has already spent billions for you to utilize starlink :)
I'd propose to instead do a fundraiser to buy our own version of the cyberbunker where we can set up a real beefy node, host events, set up a hacker space, etc ;)
As far as I understand it, you can use it to sign a message with your private key and someone else can verify it with your address and this prove you actually own that address. Can also be used for logins, I believe mitra.social has that as an option.
Based on the current liquidity on samourai swaps and BasicSwapDex, I doubt there is THAT much volume going unnoticed but there is definitely some. I'm very interested in what SeraiDEX will reveal about Monero.
Very interesting statement 🤔
How happy are you with monero.town?
The instance is now over half a year old and so far we've experience decent growth and minimal downtime.
I'm quite happy with it. Even though most content is still on r/Monero, we do get a handful of posts every week.
Since this was primarily set up as a fallback for the subreddit without any spam/scam bots thanks to strict whitelisting I think the initial goal has been more than fulfilled :)
What do you guys think?
Congrats on 6 years! Cake is an awesome wallet 🎉
Suche nach FOSS Abo-Tracking
Hab ein paar Server, Domains, etc. und würde gerne schön übersichtlich sehen, wann was ausläuft. Im normalen Kalender brauche ich das aber jetzt nicht unbedingt. Hat hier jemand nen Vorschlag?
Anonfiles, a popular service for sharing files anonymously, has shut down after saying it can no longer deal with the overwhelming abuse by its users.
Should I just wait another year or two?
I've wanted to get into 3d printing for a while now and have been checking out the prusa mk4 and the bambu lab x1.
The bambu looks amazing in all aspects besides repairability and offline printing, with the latter one looking like a real deal breaker. It seems like all the more advanced features need a connection to the cloud, which I really don't like.
On the other hand we have the prusa which seems to be running really rushed software still missing a lot of features that the hardware should be able to support and the price looks like way worse value compared to the stuff you get with the bambu. At least it's repairable and no cloud bullshit.
Should I just come back in a year and hope that the mk4 software has gotten better or the bambu doesn't require internet for all the cool stuff?
Edit: Just woke up and I want to thank everyone in this thread for the quality replies! I'll look into 3d modeling first and if the prusa doesn't anymore have janky alpha input shaping 2-3 months from now I'll go with that, otherwise I'll have to look for alternatives. Since I'd be running prints throughout the day while I'm not at home, I'd want something more reliable than an ender 3.
Edit 2: I just found out about the Bambu p1s, I might just get that one.
Don’t be like Clarence Thomas’ aide.
>I’m currently looking at my Venmo feed. In an ideal world, I would see only a log of private payments I’ve made and received. Instead, I see a list of my friends’ business: someone paid a friend for “drinkies,” another for “rich bitch things.”
This is so terrible, I don't even know what to say about this.
Making atomic swaps more accessible and private than ever before.
New PyLoose Linux malware mines Monero directly from memory
A new fileless malware named PyLoose has been targeting cloud workloads to hijack their computational resources for Monero cryptocurrency mining.
I'd like to thank the insecure cloud instances for helping secure the network 🤭
Also: >Wiz could not attribute the PyLoose attacks to any particular threat actor, as the attacker left no useful evidence behind.
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Lemmy.world and another instance have been compromised
A bunch of instances got compromised earlier today. Monero.town was not effected since this particular exploit requires a server to have custom emojis enabled.
geteilt von: https://lemdro.id/post/42872
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1895271 > > > FYI!!! In case you start getting re-directed to porn sites. > > > > Maybe the admin got hacked? > > > > --------- > > > > edit: lemmy.blahaj.zone has also been hacked. beehaw.org is also down, possibly intentionally by their admins until the issue is fixed. > > > > Post discussing the point of vulnerability: https://lemmy.ml/post/1896249
FTC requires Meta to make it easy for users to control data.
ASP of NAND Flash to Continue Falling 3~8% in 3Q23
TrendForce predicts that NAND Flash wafers will be the first to see a price hike in 3Q23 as prices for module products such as SSDs, eMMCs, and UFS will likely continue to fall due to tepid downstream demand. Consequently, the overall ASP of NAND Flash is forecast to continue dropping by about 3~8% ...
There are already 2TB SSDs available for less than 80€ and prices are expected to go even lower.
I agree with Artic Mine and believe storage is not going to be a problem for Monero and that the only real bottleneck is upload speed.
What do you think?
A central bank digital currency doesn’t have to be a privacy nightmare, says Dea Markova. But privacy is a convenient attack vector for critics of CBDCs.
>privacy is a convenient attack vector for critics of CBDCs.
Watch out people, the CBDCs will be so heckin private that you will hear the same FUD about them as you hear about Monero!
A project called "Encryption AI" promised a Telegram bot that would provide a "secure and efficient way to launch tokens". People poured in around $2 million before the developer suddenly withdrew all the funds, crashing the token price by 99%.The developer reportedly posted a message to Telegram, a...
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