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THE MONERO MOON (ISSUE 90) NEWSLETTER IS OUT NOW!
Explore the latest edition for an update on all the latest Monero (XMR) news, developments, and entertainment!
themoneromoon.com/p/the-mone…
I believe a time is coming when most of the crypto industry, Bitcoin included, will just be an extension of the same corrupt financial system it was meant to escape. Arguably, we're already there.
As traditional finance captures more of crypto, fewer places will be left where people can actually protect their wealth from the manipulation, surveillance and skulduggery that define the system.
That's where Monero stands apart. Its privacy and fungibility make it hard to absorb into a system built on financial surveillance and control.
And that's what makes Monero so important, it's not just about hiding transactions or privacy for its own sake. It's about preserving a real alternative to a system that wants to control how people store, move and use their own money.
Monero may end up as one of the last genuine refuges for financial freedom. A place where ordinary people can protect not just their privacy, but their wealth and their livelihoods.
John Foss retweeted
It would be hilarious if Monero $XMR turned out to be the largest beneficiary of the institutionalisation of crypto, tokenisation, stablecoins etc.
The most entertaining outcome is usually the most likely.
John Foss retweeted
Jeffro256 recently joined MoneroTalk to discuss Full-Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP++) and CARROT!
'Dev Jeffro256 on FCMP++ and Carrot: Launching Soon?'
Dev Jeffro256 on FCMP++ and Carrot: Launching Soon? xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1pKkOXgpD…
John Foss retweeted
We're excited to announce that CLI v0.18.5.4 'Fluorine Fermi' has been released!
'This is a minor release that includes bug fixes.'
John Foss retweeted
Get Monero and jump over the system
ALT Monero's logo on top of the newly announced Tesla doing a kickflip over Chainalysis, Ciphertrace, IRS, Europol
John Foss retweeted
We're excited to announce that GUI v0.18.5.3 'Fluorine Fermi' has been released!
'This is a highly recommended release that includes a large number of bug fixes.'
John Foss retweeted
Trocador is four today 🎂!
October 2022: a handful of exchange partners and one stubborn idea, that swapping shouldn't take eight open tabs and a leap of faith.
Four years later it's 3000+ coins, the Trocador Guarantee, prepaid cards, gift cards, AnonPay, the BTCPay plugin, and a support team that has chased down more stuck orders than we care to count.
None of that happens on its own. Thanks for four years of feedback, requests, and the occasional "why doesn't it do this yet."
🧡
John Foss retweeted
ledger hack helps you learn what privacy really means
first time the hackers in a big exploit used zcash:native instead of monero:native
and they were instantly tracked and exposed 🤣
zcash is not private thats why (good) criminals dont use it
the only truly private money is monero
John Foss retweeted
Ledger theft, day two. Since yesterday the thief has pushed ether through Tornado Cash three times, and each time on into Zcash's shielded pool. We followed every lot out the far side. Here is how, step by step.
1. THE SAME BUILD, THREE TIMES
An ether wallet pays a fresh splitter. The splitter pays four fresh wallets. The four drop it into Tornado Cash's 100, 10 and 1 ETH pools. Minutes, every time.
Run 1, yesterday 15:17: 1,254 ETH. Run 2, today 09:42: 1,291 ETH. Run 3, today 11:56: 450 ETH from 0xfa4EaBB840A33C156E600311433AE261CBfCb0e2, in the pools by 12:15.
2. OUT OF TORNADO CASH
The mixer breaks the link between a deposit and a withdrawal. We do not need the link. Our tooling fingerprints the withdrawal transactions themselves: how each one is constructed, who constructs it, and when.
Yesterday's 65 withdrawals (1,084 ETH) and today's 96 (1,726 ETH) all carry the same signature. The six other withdrawals from those pools in today's windows do not. Run 3 came out from 12:18 into 0x0d697aa182801566d87adc86e68e95fd3b2f5f82 (213 ETH) and 0x676b16cc18542f37d202a1a79ac05463395496a4 (122 ETH), and 195 ETH of it was inside a cross-chain swap service by 12:38. Forty-two minutes, end to end.
3. INTO ZCASH, AND OUT AGAIN
The swap service turns the ether into shielded ZEC, where sender, amount and recipient vanish. But the service's own shielding of each lot is public, and from it we derive a value signature for that lot's exit, then scan every transparent exit from the pool. 108 of 108 exits across both days match their lot to the zatoshi. Not one other exit from the pool does.
First lot today: in at 10:18:18, out at 11:06:16 in block 3512847 (8d26a9b095d4d28373527f7a6eb81a3be7f906d1e2190960c0512ff64f369418 and 738c6d1261e79766e4dd16bdbd38dced91b8e3a86ce41dcda83eda1f19208fbf), straight into a ZEC to USDC order.
Today so far: 20 lots ordered (2,379 ZEC, $2.9m), 14 out, 5 inside the pool, 1 still settling. Every exit feeds a ZEC to USDC order paying two wallets born at 11:11, 22 of the 28 paid by 12:43:
0x816D5Ee17DB1495d1409F135b98FF3edc5F3cDf8: 940,561 USDC
0xBA736A4b616e79867B6d586293966b552883f3F3: 852,258 USDC
1.79m USDC, unspent. @Circle can freeze it.
(1/2) 🧵⤵️
John Foss retweeted
Ledger hacker used zcash and was traced.
Ledger theft, day two. Since yesterday the thief has pushed ether through Tornado Cash three times, and each time on into Zcash's shielded pool. We followed every lot out the far side. Here is how, step by step.
1. THE SAME BUILD, THREE TIMES
An ether wallet pays a fresh splitter. The splitter pays four fresh wallets. The four drop it into Tornado Cash's 100, 10 and 1 ETH pools. Minutes, every time.
Run 1, yesterday 15:17: 1,254 ETH. Run 2, today 09:42: 1,291 ETH. Run 3, today 11:56: 450 ETH from 0xfa4EaBB840A33C156E600311433AE261CBfCb0e2, in the pools by 12:15.
2. OUT OF TORNADO CASH
The mixer breaks the link between a deposit and a withdrawal. We do not need the link. Our tooling fingerprints the withdrawal transactions themselves: how each one is constructed, who constructs it, and when.
Yesterday's 65 withdrawals (1,084 ETH) and today's 96 (1,726 ETH) all carry the same signature. The six other withdrawals from those pools in today's windows do not. Run 3 came out from 12:18 into 0x0d697aa182801566d87adc86e68e95fd3b2f5f82 (213 ETH) and 0x676b16cc18542f37d202a1a79ac05463395496a4 (122 ETH), and 195 ETH of it was inside a cross-chain swap service by 12:38. Forty-two minutes, end to end.
3. INTO ZCASH, AND OUT AGAIN
The swap service turns the ether into shielded ZEC, where sender, amount and recipient vanish. But the service's own shielding of each lot is public, and from it we derive a value signature for that lot's exit, then scan every transparent exit from the pool. 108 of 108 exits across both days match their lot to the zatoshi. Not one other exit from the pool does.
First lot today: in at 10:18:18, out at 11:06:16 in block 3512847 (8d26a9b095d4d28373527f7a6eb81a3be7f906d1e2190960c0512ff64f369418 and 738c6d1261e79766e4dd16bdbd38dced91b8e3a86ce41dcda83eda1f19208fbf), straight into a ZEC to USDC order.
Today so far: 20 lots ordered (2,379 ZEC, $2.9m), 14 out, 5 inside the pool, 1 still settling. Every exit feeds a ZEC to USDC order paying two wallets born at 11:11, 22 of the 28 paid by 12:43:
0x816D5Ee17DB1495d1409F135b98FF3edc5F3cDf8: 940,561 USDC
0xBA736A4b616e79867B6d586293966b552883f3F3: 852,258 USDC
1.79m USDC, unspent. @Circle can freeze it.
(1/2) 🧵⤵️
John Foss retweeted
The EU is banning monero:native Personally, that’s the biggest green flag a privacy coin could get.
Under the new rules every regulated exchange has to drop privacy coins by 2027. Loads already have. About 73 dumped Monero last year. You’d think that kills it. No exchanges, price collapses. Exact opposite. It went up 120%.
A ban only hits the middlemen. Exchanges, custodians, companies that have to follow the rules. Your wallet, person to person, the decentralised swaps, the chain itself, none of that cares what the EU says. No off switch. No headquarters to raid.
They’re not banning it because it’s useless. They’re banning it because it works. That’s the green flag
John Foss retweeted
It appears that USDT has chosen to blacklist THORChain vaults of USDT on the TRON blockchain. This is unprecedented in our industry and raises questions for all DeFi protocols about the safety of this asset.
John Foss retweeted
❗️Today we're launching ShouldHaveUsedMonero.com
A simple website documenting all the cases when Monero users yelled at people suffering the consequences of not using XMR
ALT Screenshot of ShouldHaveUsedMonero.com
John Foss retweeted
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