A whole class of Monero chain-analysis targets decoy selection, guessing which ring member is the real spend
FCMP++ removes decoys entirely
Nothing to guess when the anonymity set is the whole chain
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Open source doesn’t guarantee privacy
But closed source guarantees you can’t verify
Your ISP sells your browsing data in many countries, legally
A no-log VPN is not optional, it’s baseline
According to my girlfriend, I make two mistakes: first, I never really listen and second... something else.
Three questions for any privacy tool
Who holds the data?
Who holds the keys?
What happens when they’re compelled?
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Simulations show rucknium's and ofrnxmr's patches block the Nyx eclipse attack. Hashrate-weighted nodes were proposed, but most nodes don't mine.
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FCMP code is ready for review, audit quotes are due next week, and devs hope to have all the code done by Q1. A BP++ idea could halve proof size, maybe in a later fork.
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Carrot (Monero's new address upgrade) is ready for review! Payment proofs still work, except internal self-sends. Workaround: send to yourself externally.
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Why is Monero’s ring only 16? With ring signatures a bigger anonymity set means a proportionally bigger transaction, so the set stays tiny
FCMP++ grows only logarithmically with the set, so the whole chain can be your anonymity set without a matching jump in size
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Every cash advocate should run their own #Monero node
It’s criminal to force CEXs to delist Monero