blake

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

@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.

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