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Could you give some other concrete, practical examples of use cases for cryptocurrencies instead of the passive-aggressive snark?
Preserving privacy, reliable transactions with no, i repeat, no bank or govmnt involvement, no kyc. No/low fees (on some currencies), public immutable databases...
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I really think Monero in particular deserves way more criticism for their practice. Bitcoin is one thing, Monero is created for and marketed towards cybercriminals, you don't need to be a communications expert to get that premise. I haven't seen it used once for any legitimate purpose. Atleast with Bitcoin and Ethereum you can get buy some legitimate things like VPNs or NFTs https://arstechnica.com/information-techno…
So Tor and I2P also should be criticized? IMO, something being away enough from the government that it starts to get abused shows how secure/private it is.
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According to the following blog post, it uses a web API exposed by the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) platform: https://labs.guard.io/etherhiding-hiding-web2-malicious-code... This diagram show the full flow of the attack: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*by4... Because reads from blockchain are "free" (meaning, there is no cryptocurrency payment required to read data from the smart contracts on BS…
Sounds like we should poison this vector (and IPFS) by uploading copyrighted movie torrents to this free storage system. For a change we’d be doing good.
So the attack goes: 1) compromise some site to serve arbitrary JS 2) have it serve simple JS that requests other JS that contains the real malicious payload. And the reason for this two-step architecture is to make it convenient to change the real payload. And the problem is where to host the real payload. The first idea was Cloudflare, but Cloudflare keeps taking that sort of thing down. So now they host it "on the…
According to the following blog post, it uses a web API exposed by the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) platform: https://labs.guard.io/etherhiding-hiding-web2-malicious-code... This diagram show the full flow of the attack: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*by4... Because reads from blockchain are "free" (meaning, there is no cryptocurrency payment required to read data from the smart contracts on BS…
This free endpoint has many abuse protection mechanisms, as free services need (see: Cloudflare). However until today no one was hosting any malicious web payloads.
It's just matter to add a new abuse rule by BNB Smart Chain team to take this down.
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lol > In response to questions from KrebsOnSecurity, the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) said its team is aware of the malware abusing its blockchain, and is actively addressing the issue. The company said all addresses associated with the spread of the malware have been blacklisted, and that its technicians had developed a model to detect future smart contracts that use similar methods to host malicious scripts. Earlier in th…
Anybody can spin up a mirror node, even on the mostly centralized BSC. This is just a misunderstanding. Every public blockchain works this way afaik. I've even made a site for hosting webpages on Optimism: https://newgeocities.com The real discussion imo is that blockchain node operators should be pressured to respond to concerns about unwanted content. There's no reason they can't coordinate on filters in the same w…
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The suffocating irony of this forum being called "Hacker News" when it is filled with comments like this never fails to amaze me. A truly unimaginative bunch.
Could you give some other concrete, practical examples of use cases for cryptocurrencies instead of the passive-aggressive snark?
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Preserving privacy, reliable transactions with no, i repeat, no bank or govmnt involvement, no kyc. No/low fees (on some currencies), public immutable databases...
Somehow I'm living day to day without needing to think about being associated with a service I am paying for. I totally get your point about minimizing interference, but there is absolutely no way anyone thinks Monero is a good solution to this problem who isn't involved in some shady business.