Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1446. (Read 4671575 times)

"I heard even Obama saying that NSA must be put under scrutiny and things exposed!   So if he supports Snowden, how about arranging a (Congressional) Medal of Honor, since this guy has really done more to liberty than any one of those who fought in the bankster wars?"

Obama politically distancing himself from the NSA is not Obama supporting Snowden. Snowden is lucky if he'll get a pardon in the next couple election cycles; even  Feinstein (D,Cali) was calling Snowden's acts treasonous. If a ranking liberal in one of the more liberal states who wields a huge amount of political power isn't ready to come off the "He's a traitor!" soapbox, then it's unlikely he'll get any favors unless there's a huge shift in public opinion by either Democrats or Republicans (probably both would be needed now), one of the parties is overhauled (Libertarians become the Conservative base/Anarchists the Liberal base--maybe, someday), or moderate voters see his leaks in a different light. It would take a huge bombshell to shake the "Not sure how I feel about that guy," apathy that surrounds moderate voter's opinions about Snowden.  Doesn't matter what you know or feel; politics is about the perception of a reality and who can sell that reality best--this is why so many politicians are lawyers.

Would look good under XMR features "We got a fucking Satellite".

-rpietila, wouldn't look for change in US without a nudge from the rest of the world. Most are to preoccupied to care...at all. I'm finding many people under 30 are identifying and acknowledging the problem. Next 20 years will probably be the most defining in the history of the US.

I was always thinking about it for the far future of crypto Its even cheaper than that and prices are falling by the year...But thats a bit far for now

BTW: http://www.coindesk.com/jeff-garzik-announces-partnership-launch-bitcoin-satellites-space/

They both are (nowadays) just tools of banks, which of course are controlled by the banker cabal. So if you are going to stand for your rights, you better first define the rights, and then reject infringement by anyone, because they come in different shapes


I heard even Obama saying that NSA must be put under scrutiny and things exposed!  So if he supports Snowden, how about arranging a (Congressional) Medal of Honor, since this guy has really done more to liberty than any one of those who fought in the bankster wars?

$290 million to build and $200 million to launch a satellite. I'll put up a bounty of 10xmr for a dish to relay XMR transactions. It all depends on how far they want to take this.
 Might need a couple for global coverage 

My concern is that we see corporations to continue to act as/for governments. Look at Comcast threatening to cut access for those using TOR browser. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2gd875/comcast_declares_war_on_bitcoin/ My hope is that people continue to stand up to corporations and that competition solves the monopolistic problem. Corporations are in a tough spot though, as people are getting more and more pissed off at them and technology (e.g. mesh networks) may really put them on their backs. We can hope anyway.

I hope the technology starts to greatly surpass what corporations/governments are capable of "controlling". (For the sake of humanity.)
I read (if you can believe such statistics though) more young Americans support Snowden but for older Americans it is the opposite. We are going in the right direction, but time is ticking for the crazies next big war... ( That or a huge "natural" disaster, epidemic, is the only way I see them gaining control back.) Bitcoin/Crypto might help us stave off a financial meltdown if we have more time (ironic I know.)

No, you are funny, the NSA is not magic. They can't subvert the laws of mathematics or physics, and they can't hide an insecurity in an algorithm. Certainly not for ever with so many eyes on the code. Bitcoin is doomed for being too easy to pry, Monero is the currency of the future.

You are unequivocally 100% incorrect in this statement. You have ZERO rights to anonymity in the US. I have no clue where you got the Idea you were free. By Law you must provide Identification any time it is demanded by authorities whether they are in the right to ask for it or not.

I recommend you wake up before the system wakes you up the hard way. Also you should spell check your posts it adds weight to your statements.

Essentially the entire function of Monero is a cryptosystem that hides (i.e. encrypts) useful information about transactions such as who they are from, who they are to, their amounts, and their linkages with other tranactions.

You are looking at this at too low a level. There is no reason to encrypt node-to-node traffic because the assumption is that anyone can run a node (or see the same data on a block explorer, which is really a web view of a node).

The traffic is useless, however, in that it does not allow extracting useful financial information. It would be pretty dumb to create a privacy-enhanced coin where anyone can run a node and node traffic allows compromising your privacy.

i2p will be used to hide the fact that you are running a monero node at all, to provide a different sort of privacy. Really, though you could probably run in tails and hide that now (I haven't tried it).

You seem to assume that people will forever regard NSA as legit? Once they lose that in the eyes of enough of people, it does not matter even if we move back to eternally-logged Bitcoin, they cannot do anything.

Using sufficiently-hard to decipher communications may be a way to force them to use such draconian methods in their action that no one wants to work for them anymore, and the critical mass of people will wake up.

But also if they realize they have pushed you over the edge already, you are already a lost case, and often such people are left alone because any repression towards them will just ignite them to self-preservation mode which is contagious in the era of social media. For these people it might even be an asset to leak their stuff over to NSA so that they can readily observe that the person is interested in his financial privacy and better world, and is not fomenting an armed rebellion.

Its not imposable to imagine solutions to this. Onion routing for example may not be perfect for doing things like downloading large files. But imagine how many times you could bounce around something as small as a transaction. Now imagine that monero could be used to incentive the network, how many entrance and exit nodes you could have. Imagine how much scrambling you could do then with such a tiny file, monetary compensation for nodes, then to top it all off, no need for a specific destination.

Also. My understanding is the devs are working on I2P integration for this purpose specifically. I didnt use i2p as my example because i dont understand how it works really. (something i should probably figure out)

Here is another idea. When people start their node they broadcast a public key and begin listening for other keys that people broadcast. They begin to develop a little temporary database of keys. When you broadcast a transaction you actually encrypt it in several layers of keys stored in this database. When you receive a transaction you check to see if your published key decrypts it, if it does you decrypt it and rebroadcast, then the same thing happens when it arrives at the next. To a third party observer they cant actually tell that a -> b is the same transaction  b -> c.

Im sure that idea is not perfect. I just thought of it off the top of my head. But it just goes to show that a small amount of creativity can go a long way i think.

W0w! Thank you! I now am liquidating all my holdings and buying this stealthcoin. It sounds so Kewl!

I'm not sure I fully understand your argument, either due to my limited intellect or my limited English..
Anyway, I don't believe the American nation will go to a civil war over Monero while sitting quietly and allowing the government to record every mail they send and every phone call they make.. Or are you saying that this doesn't actually happen? I can't know the facts, I'm just trying to assess the situation the best I can from the barrage of (dis)information that is available to me. Why isn't the supreme court doing anything about the spying, or the indefinite detention of citizens without trial, or the targeted killings? Are they all constitutional? How do you know it will not tolerate outlawing of technologies like Monero?    

When you send XMR from your wallet to someone, is that transaction sent in plain text?
When you connect to a mining pool, or even solo mining, is that communication ALL encrypted?

*sniff sniff*

I fail to see it. Perhaps you can make the case for me.

*edit* also notice that there are several different questions here that are sometimes treated as one.

1) can one create a crypto where if the nsa spends 10 million dollars trying to figure out the transaction history of 1 single person they still will not be able to uncover that information.

2) can one create a crypto where it is prohibitively expensive for the nsa to uncover the transaction history of large groups of people.

3) every point on the sliding scale between these two extremes

Eh. Private bank issuance of currency was a pretty good option before crypto. That is, providing there were few restrictions to entry into the market for currency production and producers were forced to compete with each other for customers.

Other than that I don't see anything wrong with your comment

lol That's funny. Still, there's no way anons can prevail over the government agencies such as NSA. It is so clear I don't get how people fail to see it.

that is no more feasible in the u.s. than confiscation of all firearms.  either would involve a civil war.  every member of the armed forces has sworn an oath to defend the constitution against all domestic enemies.

factions within government commit crimes everyday.  some are sensationalized by mass media, and affect common knowledge, but that does not mean that common knowledge reflects facts on the ground more accurately.

a balanced perspective should include some facts: people are not governments, but form a large part of the mechanism of governments.  laws are not consistent, policies are not consistent, and actions are not consistent.  in the u.s. the longest arc of governance is determined by the supreme court. deviations from the rulings of the court exist only as long as the court tolerates them.

They say it's going to be announced today