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Yes that's my understanding.
using any torsion-carrying point on the curve would result in a proveably unspendable output. Subgroup membership was never a rule and afaict it was never made to be one, so it should still work today. it just requires an extra step in creating the transaction. Seems like a hassle to implement, since there's no library for constructing them and no implementation for finding and counting them (like for downvotes).
Although libsodium rejects them all so they're easy to find I guess.
Not quite clear how this relates to the 2017 inflation bug, I guess this is torsion in the destination point and not the spending proof (torsion in the key image?).
Which of course, there IS a consensus check to confirm since 2017. my guess anyway.
anyway. tbh, I only have the vaguest idea of what torsion on a curve point actually is.
**UPDATE**
Somebody sent me this:
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/8351
These bad stealth addresses are from a hard coded value in the original Bytecoin genesis.
My implemention of the checker found the same strange values (as expected since its a fork of that checker)
Interesting find from my implementation of the Monero Inflation Checker (MIC). Some actor was sending coins to invalid stealth addresses. It seems unlikely this was searching for an exploit... But then it continues for three years, so seems unlikely it's just an undiscovered bug too. Heres a…
yeah, I can see that. I personally want all the details but most people probably wont read all of it.
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I fight for the users. Active here and nosr (npub1lxzaxzge0jq9u9cecucctdt5lslwgp7hcxmp2l0wn8r2ecjenwasu6svxa)
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idk man, seems like a lot of work. but maybe you're just a lot more organized than me.
I just periodically send what I haven't spent to cold storage. I have a watch-only wallet in Feather so I can always make deposits.
and keep cold storage truly cold. those keys are only on steel, if I want to get any out I need to load them up somewhere. which is a PITA and compromises them so I never have.
I guess that's my only management "technique". make the stash hard to access but easy to send to.