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For people who already know what and why we need better OPSEC. We have been operating under an assumption that doxxing comes with high costs and requires intensive resources. And that deanonymisation is possible but expensive, that linking a forum account to a real identity takes a skilled…
There’s a rounded value heuristic (often discussed in Bitcoin privacy) which is inherited by any public chain, including non-shielded Zcash. This isn’t the case when values are hidden, especially for Monero and any shielded Zcash (or future shielded Bitcoin). A pool boundary… twitter.com/yfarmx/status/2109671242458358176
I've been meaning to check this ever since I saw Spirobel's tweet last week. Browser wallets have been a routine part of other chains like Solana for a long time. They're pretty convenient. I think it's pretty neat: I just tried using it with Stasher: https://youtu.be/-xN-RzpOLww I know browser…
one benefit of building in the browser is that the instrumentation tools work very well. for example it is possible to slow down specific network requests with the old monero-wallet-rpc the issue was that the concurrency of the local http server was interleaved with the…
Hi While reading the discussion under Whats next at Stasher, what direction shall we move in? , I realized it was time to try something I've had on my mind for a while. One thing stood out in the comments: people want content that's worth reading and worth bookmarking and coming back to.…
In my quest to investigate the rising RAM and storage prices, as I am looking to upgrade my workstation and build a NAS with plenty of storage for backups and media, I've been researching, ironically with AI, the market prices, the current and forecasted trends, and the news surrounding these…
Monero Tech Meeting Summary — #183 (Aug 31) & #184 (Sep 7, 2026) Overview The Monero Tech meetings are weekly Monday gatherings chaired by rbrunner7 in the #no-wallet-left-behind channel (bridged IRC-Libera/Matrix). The project is currently in a heavy preparation phase for the v0.19 release, while…
It's truly a miracle of this age that anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can access and study hundreds of years of humanity's intellectual legacy, thanks to free culture projects such as Project Gutenberg. But I realised there's not enough information on this area of the Internet.…
On October 6, OpenAI makes an announcement about an unreleased internal model resolving long-standing open problems in mathematics. https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/ Then Justrin Drake tweets this And calls upon the blockchain industry to "calmly begin planning for…
We all know the idea of separating money from the state. The Myth of the Rule of Law by John Hasnas was the first time I saw someone try the harder cut IRL (non-fiction): separating law / lawmaking from the state. (The real first time I ran into the idea was in Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh…
Monero Weekly News - October 9–16, 2026 Monero Research Lab meeting - October 14, 2026 The Monero Research Lab met on Wednesday, October 14, chaired by Rucknium. On FCMP++, j-berman reported that the upstream integration PRs are ready for re-review after he addressed all LLM review comments, and he…
The Depoliticization of Law John Hasnas Advocates of the privatization of law often assume that unless law springs from some act of agreement, some express or implicit social contract by which individuals consent to be bound, it is nothing more than force. In this Article, I argue that this is a…
First published July 5, 2018 Came across this essay on the internets, hope it educates you the reader as much as it educated me. I admit I used to believe in Bitcoin. I was one of its most naïve and vehement apologists to friends, family members, and complete strangers (online). This was all before…
For anyone who cannot open the original link, the full text is below. The Shadow Superpower Forget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world's fastest growing economy -- and its future. By Robert Neuwirth October 28, 2011, 9:16 PM With only a mobile phone and a promise of money from…
The list was too long to fit inside a comment in the original post , so I had to create a new post here. Enjoy scrolling! {:toc} Legend | Mark | Meaning | | ----- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | † | title explicitly bolded / discussed in the article | | [?] |…
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We all love freedom, yet we don’t always want it for others — and we rarely stop to think about that. We probably should. Three years ago, SourceHut — a platform dedicated to free software hosting — issued a bold statement: software related to crypto and blockchains was no longer welcome there. The…
If you run any sort of infrastructure, website, self-hosted service, cloud service etc etc etc it might be a good idea to just have an agent run daily if not hourly scans for any security disclosures that affect those systems, and notify you immediately if any vulnerabilities relevant to you are…