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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
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…
In an effort to make Monero as private as it can be and return to its cypherpunk roots, today I am submitting Monero Improvement Proposal 1984 (MIP-1984) to add a transparent address type into the protocol. t-addresses in Monero will allow us to reveal our transaction data to the entire world,…
Foundation Devices is the latest hardware wallet manufacturer to be affected by a security incident. Fake emails are going out to customers claiming that their hardware wallets have been compromised. The emails include customers' names and addresses, so at the very least customer data has now been…
ANNOUNCEMENT: SPAM EMAILS HAVE BEEN SENT THAT APPEAR TO HAVE COME FROM OFFICIAL FOUNDATION DOMAINS. We have traced this back to one or more compromised API keys on Cloudflare, and have already revoked all API keys. The malicious domain in the spam email has been taken down.…
The official Cypherpunk board game animated wallpaper pack. Perfect for Linux ricing or Monero mining backgrounds. ⬛ WALLPAPER PREVIEW https://odysee.com/@cypherpunkboardgame:3/Wallpapers:7?r=Go5TgrkJp3GHKCjDLQ8C4wNDKDyCxiiv ⬛ EACH PURCHASE COMES WITH: 10 Video Files (.MP4) 4k Resolution Video…
There are lots of XMR gift card options, here I'll try to rank them according to my own needs which is 1. data SIM 2) transportation 3) accommodation 4) food and groceries 5) privacy tools 6) electronics goal: simulate if one could survive in a given country for a period of time without relying on…
Haveno 1.12.0 and RetoSwap v1.12.0-reto are out with security fixes, UI improvements and bug fixes since v1.11.0. What's Changed Security Verify offers, arbitrators and support messages from peers before using them. Prevent fake or replayed account data from raising trade limits. Only accept trade…
Great episode with Jeffro and Doug to get the latest updates from a Monero dev on the devs path to FCMP++ The GAANT chart is also great visual aid to follow whats currently happening Timestamps: 0:00 Intro and sponsors (Cake Wallet, Stealth EX) 1:00 Catch-up: family life, NY governor's race,…
From woodser: Haveno v1.9.0 is tagged! 🎉 This version brings a major refresh of the user interface, plus many fixes and security improvements from community review, including findings from Kevlar and AI-assisted audits. Highlights: • A new startup wizard to choose your currency and Monero node, or…
Tracking remains one of the most obvious pain points for privacy-conscious people in today’s surveillance economy, and it shows up clearly in XmrBazaar’s data. The majority of listings in the top four categories (Sell product: other , Sell service: assistance , Sell service: proxy merchants , and…
For those who do not know: Nikolai was a true builder and one of the last genuine cypherpunks in crypto. He focused on elegant, permissionless, corruption-resistant systems rather than hype, profit, or personal branding. As one tribute put it, he spent his life crafting tools to realize a vision of…
today is Nikolai Mushegian's (@delete_shitcoin) 33rd birthday. here's to a genius who dared to see things for what they are and call them by their true names—and, most importantly, when he saw something wrong, he built the tools to make it right. Nikolai was a builder in the…
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…
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…
Signing Monero transactions offline isn't easy to begin with, and even the official method is complex and risky enough that it's not really recommended. But there's another thing about the official flow that's bothered me for a while: it doesn't actually build the transaction offline. The transfer…
The Stash #01: What Monero Hides, and What It Doesn't Level: Intermediate Reading time: \~10 min Last verified: 26 Oct 2026 Version covered: Monero v0.18.5.4 "Fluorine Fermi" (GitHub release ) Contents In short Scenario Stop 1: Exchange Stop 2: Swap Stop 3: Payment Deadly zone: network and OPSEC…
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…
Monero Research Lab meeting - October 21, 2026 The Monero Research Lab met on Wednesday, October 21, chaired by Rucknium. In updates, Rucknium is doing further analysis for his eclipse-attack fix (#11527); tevador is working on Share or Perish and relative time locks; vtnerd is adding tests to the…
I have come to suspect that to most people thinking is painful. Some of us are addicted to thinking. Some of us find it a necessity. Johnny enjoyed it. I even have the suspicion that he enjoyed almost nothing else. -- Edward Teller, eulogizing John von Neumann I listened to Ananyo Bhattacharya's…
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…
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…
The phenomenon of the 'Streisand Effect' refers to any attempt to hide or censor information, with the unintended consequence that exactly this information will be spread wide and far. The term came into existence through Mike Masnick (CEO Techdirt) when he wrote an article in 2003 about an…
