also ddos attacks on multiple remaining exchanges - wizardswap, trocador among others in the last week.
some have suggested this corrals sites + services onto cloudflare as a chokepoint for future censorship.
however xmr keeps on ticking even despite mempool flooding last month.
@Rucknium taking the lead on analysis here.
check the paper he wrote re: the first wave on his git here
then on this wave - fat input transactions filling blocks on XMR chain :
Thanks for mentioning my paper. It analyzed the privacy impact of an adversary owning many outputs. The transactions that are congesting the mempool/txpool now have many inputs. There may be a privacy impact of large many-input txs, but I don't have a clear idea of what it would be, and it's not the same as a standard black marble flood.
But can it do Atomic Swaps?
@tusker
allark.io looking EXTREMELY sus...
see pic related
allark feb '23 - selling 100 different products
heavily shilling on r/monero and even on here
allark dec '23 - suddenly a USD > crypto exchange
offering usd trades, plus interest bearing instruments [illegal] doesn't mention what stablecoin is used no further information or contact us information
this from the same guy who refused to answer customers who didn't receive prepaid cards ignores any questions on his spam posts.
we don't want scams like this on monero.town
doesn't deal in monero likely doesn't deal legit at all..
imo, most 'above board' businesses won't accept monero payments.
they have to bend over backwards to the state - commercial law, tax law, aml procedures with commercial banks. If they lose their business bank account they're done so they are cautious actors. think how slow shops are to adopt new payments technology compared to say internet based payments.
those shops are to an extent part of the state apparatus as they are 'permitted'.
as monero is, to an extent, money, you can use it to transact in as far as you can convince the other party to accept it - barter. barter works a lot better with individuals, and within communities than it does with formal business. however, monero is not physically limited, like gold, butter or bullets, monero is infinitely transactable around the globe at high speed. So it is furthermore suited to the aforementioned internet based payments services. its anonymity is not a problem when you have the tech on hand, wallets, escrow services etc. so that's where it is best suited to help.
the perspective of wanting more 'real-world applications' is, in my opinion, a diversion. those shops stuck in the fiat system are passé and monero is a new technology. it's not up to monero to try and fit into a bank card, although that can be useful (and possible with iterations of cakepay) but it's up to monero to blaze a new trail for the cypherpunk ideology. to be anonymous digital money that is fungible. if you have that, it is a unique and novel value proposition that new economies can be built on.
tl;dr monero doesn't need commercial adoption.
tortoise, meet hare
Thanks Terry, The first downvote was within minutes of posting. I suspect that it has more to do with posting it here (context) than it does with Assange (content). I must say thanks to the gang who have upvoted and balanced out the haters!
Either way, I've recieved the first batch of stickers today, will post a photo soon.
Furthermore, I've had communication with Kuno about the fundraiser, to verify my identity and so on. They are a cool organisation and I think I will write them up a little promotional post on Monero.town in good time. I think that fundraising is a great way to open up Monero adoption - it's not just for drugs ;). Plus their code is neat and open source, something we can get behind. I will be donating to their cause in the future!
good article, and good website
interesting article here: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/avoid-this-monero-vulnerability/ - addressing ring sig deniability across repeated transactions, plus mitigation.
look forward to seeing more of this sort of thing
dont forget stablecoins