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De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

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Re: De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

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post #6

If the US debt problem leads to capital controls, using Monero will become a federal offence overnight. Might as well call it money-laundering coin.

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The second capital controls drop, the feds will rebrand privacy as "terrorism" faster than you can say "civil forfeiture."

Re: De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

#12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The second capital controls drop, the feds will rebrand privacy as "terrorism" faster than you can say "civil forfeiture."

Lol they already have. Hawaladars are basically synonymous with terrorists now.

Re: De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

#13
post #6

If the US debt problem leads to capital controls, using Monero will become a federal offence overnight. Might as well call it money-laundering coin.

Do you think that is a likely scenario under this government?

IDK about this particular administration, but the government did place Tornado cash on the sanctions list (now removed). Which does operate differently than monero, but from the view of a bureaucrat I think similar effect.

Re: De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

#17
post #14

DERO could be an alternative with their full encryption of user balances and transactions

Monero has been used and proven for over a decade. No one wants to switch to some unknown tech with an unknown development team.

The latter is arguably the more important of the two.

I remember a scare some years back around a Monero developer that turned out to be a nothingburger, but it goes to show how important it is that the core development team is trustworthy, or at least sticks to their beliefs and don't capitulate to third-parties (whether public or private in nature).

Monero is the one coin I can confidently say I trust the core developers on, it's had a strong history of making the right decisions where it counts in my opinion (breaking ASICs w/the monero-classic situation, making the official client default to downloading the entire chain, etc)

Re: De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

#18
post #14

DERO could be an alternative with their full encryption of user balances and transactions

Monero has been used and proven for over a decade. No one wants to switch to some unknown tech with an unknown development team.

How much of the Monero development team is actually known? Last I checked some of their core team were anonymous but that might have changed

Re: De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

#19
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Monero has been used and proven for over a decade. No one wants to switch to some unknown tech with an unknown development team.

How much of the Monero development team is actually known? Last I checked some of their core team were anonymous but that might have changed

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Re: De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR

#20
post #16

I can’t find a date on this article. And this is exactly the type of content that needs a date.

2024-12-23 through 2024-12-30, if the HTML metadata is to be believed. It's always a pain when article-oriented websites try to hide this sort of thing.
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