SaberhagenTheNameless on Nostr: "I'm going to explain why I think Monero is super cool. It really is the frontline of ...
"I'm going to explain why I think Monero is super cool. It really is the frontline of the arms race between cryptographers and investigators like us...Monero has an incredible developer team they are always looking for weaknesses in their privacy protocols, and so they're really proactive in making their protocol the most secure and private that it can be. So theres just really interesting things happning here cryptographically and so that means we also have to do interesting things to *try* and track it."
"I'm not feeling super confident about this"
"It appears"
"We believe"
They basically only managed to trace it because the target used a chainalaysis node to broadcast their transaction + coordinating with centralized swap services + didn't hide their IP address.
Who would've thought? 🤷♂️
Remove any one of those 3 and they wouldn't have been able to.
Published at
2025-02-08 09:20:42Event JSON
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