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We tried a specialized Ethereum smart contract auditing AI tool. It made up a bug and suggested introducing the same critical vulnerability to fix it.

There's a lot more context about what browsers they recommend (and what they recommend them for) on the dedicated page for it: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/ Th…

Hey, I'm Justin from the 501(c)(3) fiscal host of Privacy Guides, MAGIC Grants. Us board members administer the funds for Privacy Guides, and we are different people than those who…

Ironically, not necessarily. If you sent funds to Coinbase's provided address and they wanted to refuse/refund it for some reason, your new owned output would likely be marked as c…

It's not comparable though. The simplified (though slightly wrong) way to think about Grin is that its privacy is like Monero but without Monero's ring signatures. Its transaction …

About 25,000 transactions per day right now. So about 750,000 per month. Edit: here's a good comparison chart https://moneroj.net/percentage/

I feel you're deliberately being pedantic. There's nothing legally dictating 1 pound of flour = any other 1 pound, but it is fungible, by the definition of them being indistinguish…

This largely is not true. While privacy on LN is still being evaluated, it is also extremely complicated. There's no easy "privacy on LN" guide that's industry standard, for exampl…

Largely, no. While the full privacy implications of lightning network use are extremely complicated and still being researched (and the best practices updated with that information…

> Also, with enough time, all the Bitcoins would be dirty. This is a misconception. Coins are only associated with the last identified node. So for example if I sent tainted BTC to…

I work for Cake Wallet and Monero.com so I'm biased, but you should try one of the wallets that does this relatively burdensome scanning task locally to see that normally it's not …

Kraken US supports Monero, so clearly it can be done. If another exchange chooses not to, that's a company making their own decision.

Monero is on Kraken US. Coinbase and Gemini, acting as companies choosing to add the coin they're mutually invested in Zcash instead of Monero, is a dumb indicator to use of what's…

Don't take my word for it. Read what FinCEN says directly: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20...

Well, you see what FinCEN says about those: > An anonymizing software provider is not a money transmitter. FinCEN regulations exempt from the definition of money transmitter those …

Obviously not legal advice, but FinCEN's guidance is quite easy to follow here: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/FinCEN%20... > Providers of anonymizing services,…

There are many ways to account for this in a risk-based approach however. Asking for basic information about a customer's occupation and source of funds (as is common when opening …

Miners are unlikely to be money transmitters under current regulatory guidance since they never "accept" money for transmission. They only verify transactions that they never have …

Creator of the Breaking Monero series and a compliance analyst at a cryptocurrency OTC desk here. This mixer was penalized for running an unlicensed MSB. This is far more about tha…

Correct, not as far as I can tell. The methods they describe may be applicable to CoinJoin services (at least the very high-level methods are applicable), but they didn't show any …

Monero has a significantly higher "base level" privacy than other cryptocurrencies, and it's great for many use-cases. However, it still has limitations. You should check out the B…

I work in compliance for an OTC desk that supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, others: https://dvchain.co We conduct AML on everyone who is onboarded, but we're of the opinion that …

It's not impossible to use properly, but it requires time and money. Just to enter the Samourai mixing pools, for example, costs ~$5-270, exclusive of Bitcoin miner fees. Mixing ca…

Is having your coins flagged by an exchange for using privacy features convenient?