Maybe people are starting to look at "altcoins" such as Monero because Bitcoin is showing its age.
Fine with me!
Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 678. (Read 4671660 times)
February 13, 2016, 12:31:09 PM
February 13, 2016, 11:07:49 AM
In case anyone missed it here, Shen Noether delivering proof of the Shadowcash deanonymization:
https://github.com/ShenNoether/Deanon
De-anonymization of the whole chain:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ShenNoether/Deanon/master/sdcDeAnon.txt
Initial blog with edits:
https://shnoe.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/de-anonymizing-shadowcash-and-oz-coin
This does not apply to Monero!
https://github.com/ShenNoether/Deanon
De-anonymization of the whole chain:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ShenNoether/Deanon/master/sdcDeAnon.txt
Initial blog with edits:
https://shnoe.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/de-anonymizing-shadowcash-and-oz-coin
This does not apply to Monero!
February 13, 2016, 06:35:32 AM
binaryFate made this excellent post on reddit a few days ago to explain how ring signatures in Monero work (and a comparison against Bitcoin):
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/44sz7q/propose_to_change_the_phrase_mixin_to_ring_size/cztbx9a
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Here is a short recap, first how Bitcoin works and then the difference when you have ring signatures.
To insist that the process is entirely passive for others: they don't need to do anything, they can't even choose who will use their inputs as part of a ring or not. You can be the only user of Monero for an entire week and still create ring signatures as usual. You can also create ring signatures and therefore transactions on an airgap computer without any internet connection. (That should make it clear to you nobody else is involved in the process).
- "Classic" signing as in Bitcoin: Whenever you want to spend an input (required when you build a transaction), you reference that input and produce a signature with the private key that corresponds to the address to which that input was sent.
- Ring signing as in Monero: Whenever you want to spend an input, you reference that input PLUS some others with the same amount. Those additional inputs can be anywhere in the blockchain, recent or old. They can belong to dead people or their corresponding private key can be lost (just to underline they are not going to do anything active with you). Once you have this list of inputs (yours + the additionals), you create a ring signature using a private key. To any observer, this signature could have been created by any of the keys corresponding to the inputs. They have no way to know who the signer is, and therefore which input is actually spent in the list and which ones are "the additionals".
To insist that the process is entirely passive for others: they don't need to do anything, they can't even choose who will use their inputs as part of a ring or not. You can be the only user of Monero for an entire week and still create ring signatures as usual. You can also create ring signatures and therefore transactions on an airgap computer without any internet connection. (That should make it clear to you nobody else is involved in the process).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/44sz7q/propose_to_change_the_phrase_mixin_to_ring_size/cztbx9a
February 13, 2016, 03:56:08 AM
Bitco.in forum has also just started a new sub. Monero just made the cut at 17 out of 18 cyrptos deemed worthy of attention.
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/alternative-cryptocurrency-discussion.882/
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/alternative-cryptocurrency-discussion.882/
February 12, 2016, 10:46:33 PM
A new subreddit, I think the intention is to make it somewhat similiar to r/bitcoinmarkets:
https://www.reddit.com/r/moneromarket/
https://www.reddit.com/r/moneromarket/
February 12, 2016, 03:13:31 PM
Deserves a crosspost:
Shoutout from Peter Todd on the only altcoin he uses, for privacy reasons of course.
Posted yesterday in bitcoincore slack channel.
Shoutout from Peter Todd on the only altcoin he uses, for privacy reasons of course.
Posted yesterday in bitcoincore slack channel.
Heh, that's nice. Good to see The Todd refuting the Gavinista's "u just want Bitcoin to die because u hav so many Evil VIA" canard.
How did hostfat react to the mention of Monero?
I hope he took it badly.
Ha - no response to the Monero mention. I think we all like Bitcoin and have high hopes that eventually it gains some level of privacy, but given the size of confidential transactions and the willingness of the community to add new semi-controversial features, it's not likely to compete with Monero anytime soon. No matter our opinions on the roadmap, there's a fuckload of work needing to be done on SW, LN, sidechains, eventual block size increase, etc. They've got a ton on their plate and that's without tackling mining centralization and privacy.
February 12, 2016, 02:48:33 PM
Deserves a crosspost:
Shoutout from Peter Todd on the only altcoin he uses, for privacy reasons of course.
Posted yesterday in bitcoincore slack channel.
Shoutout from Peter Todd on the only altcoin he uses, for privacy reasons of course.
Posted yesterday in bitcoincore slack channel.
Heh, that's nice. Good to see The Todd refuting the Gavinista's "u just want Bitcoin to die because u hav so many Evil VIA" canard.
How did hostfat react to the mention of Monero?
I hope he took it badly.
February 12, 2016, 01:44:04 PM
Who is Peter Todd: http://www.coindesk.com/video-core-developer-peter-todd-bitcoins-future/ (Bitcoin core developer)
February 12, 2016, 08:54:52 AM
Deserves a crosspost:
Shoutout from Peter Todd on the only altcoin he uses, for privacy reasons of course.
Posted yesterday in bitcoincore slack channel.
Shoutout from Peter Todd on the only altcoin he uses, for privacy reasons of course.
Posted yesterday in bitcoincore slack channel.
February 12, 2016, 03:32:33 AM
My blockchain got corrupted when the electricity stopped. I resynced from scratch and it took about 24 hours. Previously I resynced from scratch a few times on the same machine on the same USB3 external hdd and on the same internet connection for 1-3 hours (it was on bitmonerod 0.9.0 tagged and before tagged, not 0.9.1). What could be the issue with the slow sync this time?
I'm not sure I'm understanding. Are you using the same version as before?
What CPU do you have?
Thank you for clarifying. We are looking into it.
Thank you for the follow up. We're going to take a look at whether there is a better default for the parameter, although higher numbers increase memory usage, so it may not be best for everyone to increase it.
February 11, 2016, 08:49:36 PM
Monero: Moving Ever-Nearer Perfect Privacy - A brief interview with core-team member fluffypony: (by the Daily Decrypt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FHeXrY65V4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FHeXrY65V4
Nice to see you out there Fluffy.
February 11, 2016, 06:11:20 PM
SSL Labs says the mentioned website supports HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) as well protection against downgrade protocol attacks and gives an A+ grade.
Thank you for the check and report. It's always welcome, we really take privacy seriously. However, it isn't on the HTTPS Everywhere list ( https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/?xmr.to ). Probably it would be a good idea to add that as well other Monero related websites. Since Tor Browser has this extension built-in, this could be helpful to avoid this type of incident again.
Right. We're right now applying to the various pre-loaded HSTS lists. However, realistically it will take probably several months before being visible in production browsers. February 11, 2016, 04:33:00 PM
WARNING: Always check you're using https when connecting to xmr.to, a malicious TOR exit node made a victim already.
Somebody was recently scammed of a significant amount of XMRs when he tried to use XMR.TO over TOR.
After a little investigation, we found out what happened: the TOR exit node was malicious, and created an order going to a different address than that requested by the victim. The victim payed the XMR, but never got the BTC, as they were sent by XMR.TO to the scammer address. XMR.TO had no way to know something wrong was going on.
This type of man-in-the-middle attack is not possible when you use https connection. What the exit node did is to downgrade the connection to a normal http, and sadly the victim must not have noticed the lack of secured connection in his browser.
The malicious exit node has the IP 109.201.154.186.
Be safe: ALWAYS check within your browser that your connection is secure when you connect to XMR.TO. If it's just http, that's a phishing version and you're not talking to XMR.TO directly.
SSL Labs says the mentioned website supports HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) as well protection against downgrade protocol attacks and gives an A+ grade.Somebody was recently scammed of a significant amount of XMRs when he tried to use XMR.TO over TOR.
After a little investigation, we found out what happened: the TOR exit node was malicious, and created an order going to a different address than that requested by the victim. The victim payed the XMR, but never got the BTC, as they were sent by XMR.TO to the scammer address. XMR.TO had no way to know something wrong was going on.
This type of man-in-the-middle attack is not possible when you use https connection. What the exit node did is to downgrade the connection to a normal http, and sadly the victim must not have noticed the lack of secured connection in his browser.
The malicious exit node has the IP 109.201.154.186.
Be safe: ALWAYS check within your browser that your connection is secure when you connect to XMR.TO. If it's just http, that's a phishing version and you're not talking to XMR.TO directly.
This should always look like this:
However, it isn't on the HTTPS Everywhere list ( https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/atlas/?xmr.to ). Probably it would be a good idea to add that as well other Monero related websites. Since Tor Browser has this extension built-in, this could be helpful to avoid this type of incident again.
February 11, 2016, 04:27:45 PM
My blockchain got corrupted when the electricity stopped. I resynced from scratch and it took about 24 hours. Previously I resynced from scratch a few times on the same machine on the same USB3 external hdd and on the same internet connection for 1-3 hours (it was on bitmonerod 0.9.0 tagged and before tagged, not 0.9.1). What could be the issue with the slow sync this time?
I'm not sure I'm understanding. Are you using the same version as before?
What CPU do you have?
Thank you for clarifying. We are looking into it.
Thank you for the follow up. We're going to take a look at whether there is a better default for the parameter, although higher numbers increase memory usage, so it may not be best for everyone to increase it.
February 11, 2016, 04:05:09 PM
Monero: Moving Ever-Nearer Perfect Privacy - A brief interview with core-team member fluffypony: (by the Daily Decrypt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FHeXrY65V4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FHeXrY65V4
February 11, 2016, 03:59:22 PM
$ simplewallet --generate-from-view-key 49bPEMu2NiJCDPAvzDDTJCfcRKcdSmB5P3XFbMbw7m1rJt7cotJeFJEZVhTFguYeQ4TNEvPwAbtF5Ps JQ9iEKz8mH2WmQo3:794d99ba442931954d00de76218f62a85692fbffd544590a0f5d913149fed0a:lookwallet
February 11, 2016, 03:54:15 PM
I have synched with blockchain. I am trying to create a watch only wallet to simlplewallet by this command.
It is like
But only this happens.
What should be done?
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--generate-from-view-key 49bPEMu2NiJCDPAvzDDTJCfcRKcdSmB5P3XFbMbw7m1rJt7cotJeFJEZVhTFguYeQ4TNEvPwAbtF5Ps JQ9iEKz8mH2WmQo3:794d99ba442931954d00de76218f62a85692fbffd544590a0f5d913149fed0a:lookwallet
It is like
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--generate-from-view-key address:viewkey:filename
But only this happens.
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[wallet 4AT4qA]: --generate-from-view-key 49bPEMu2NiJCDPAvzDDTJCfcRKcdSmB5P3XFbMbw7m1rJt7cotJeFJEZVhTFguYeQ4TNEvPwAbtF5Ps JQ9iEKz8mH2WmQo3:794d99ba442931954d00de76218f62a85692fbffd544590a0f5d913149fed0a:lookwallet
unknown command: --generate-from-view-key 49bPEMu2NiJCDPAvzDDTJCfcRKcdSmB5P3XFbMbw7m1rJt7cotJeFJEZVhTFguYeQ4TNEvPwAbtF5Ps JQ9iEKz8mH2WmQo3:794d99ba442931954d00de76218f62a85692fbffd544590a0f5d913149fed0a:lookwallet
[wallet 4AT4qA]:
unknown command: --generate-from-view-key 49bPEMu2NiJCDPAvzDDTJCfcRKcdSmB5P3XFbMbw7m1rJt7cotJeFJEZVhTFguYeQ4TNEvPwAbtF5Ps JQ9iEKz8mH2WmQo3:794d99ba442931954d00de76218f62a85692fbffd544590a0f5d913149fed0a:lookwallet
[wallet 4AT4qA]:
What should be done?
February 11, 2016, 12:58:00 PM
My blockchain got corrupted when the electricity stopped. I resynced from scratch and it took about 24 hours. Previously I resynced from scratch a few times on the same machine on the same USB3 external hdd and on the same internet connection for 1-3 hours (it was on bitmonerod 0.9.0 tagged and before tagged, not 0.9.1). What could be the issue with the slow sync this time?
I'm not sure I'm understanding. Are you using the same version as before?
What CPU do you have?
Thank you for clarifying. We are looking into it.
February 11, 2016, 08:56:56 AM
** MONERO MISSIVE SPECIAL EDITION - 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW **
Super Missive gents. A big thank you to all Core contributors, both past and present ones!
and the price rises because of old monero-missive 2015 is here ..... no logic for me he he he
February 11, 2016, 06:49:24 AM
** MONERO MISSIVE SPECIAL EDITION - 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW **
Super Missive gents. A big thank you to all Core contributors, both past and present ones!
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