Topic: [XMR] Monero Speculation - page 109. (Read 3314316 times)

Running a node is not illegal, I think. Let's hope that doesn't change. You don't have to own Monero to run the node.

Dandelion doesn't address linking your IP to Monero use. What it does do is make it much harder for other nodes to link your IP to your specific transactions. (To be clear it already wasn't trivial or even easy, but with Dandelion it is much harder still, and since it is built in and everyone is using it, this makes the task of mapping Monero transactions overall much harder and helps everyone.)

If you want to hide your Monero usage altogether you need to use VPN/Tor/I2P.

Ahh ok, yeah now I remember at the end of that article it mentions the need to still probably use a VPS or whatever... but still, I will take any progress on protecting IP addresses from being linked to xmr use

^ I had the same concern at the time phishead. There were only 200 nodes in total However I do think Dandelion does not resolve your ISP and others knowing there is a Monero node running on your IP address. It solves that a transaction cannot be linked to an IPadress anymore.

I think these two things are huge for Monero as a whole, and here's why:

1) Tari:  To those who use Ethereum but don't trust the people behind Ethereum and such to not roll back transactions, this is going to be a game changer.  I completely understand when people poo-poo on the idea of smart contracts (which I do sometimes too), but think about what Bitcoin and Monero are trying to do here... subvert around government control while also using a trustless protocol to transact money between two parties.  I think smart contracts are equally, if not more dynamically important in the long run for a functional society.  

We still rely on lawyers and government to be able to take out a loan and pay your mortgage, enforce your will when you pass away, etc.  To have a way to create smart contracts on a platform that allows a NFT to exist, while doing so in a way that obscures your personal identity on the "public ledger" is a huge fucking deal.  Just like with banks who don't publicly broadcast to everyone that you just received your paycheck for $xxxx.xx, lawyers don't publicly broadcast that you are issuing a contract to buy a plot of land from somebody.

And it's not just the "major" contracts you encounter on your every day life... It can be away for people to subvert centralized entities such as Ticketmaster, who have been caught price gouging tickets they sell on there by unfairly forcing artists, sports teams, etc. to use their platform to sell.  It's huge to allow peasants like ourselves to directly do business with one another without having to jump through hoops in order to get a slice of the pie.

2) Dandelion++)  I remember when I first got into Monero I was nervous about running a node because I remember I was the only node at the time being ran in my state (US).  The fact that there is a way to cut obscure the last frontier of vulnerability that Monero has is huge for obvious reasons.  But the biggest reason that I can think of is that it allows citizens that are overtly controlled by their government in every way possible, such as China, to run, use and mine Monero without fear in the short term of being located on a map of active nodes.

Loving Dandelion marketing too,,, and loving that we got to wait this long and still no steam lost. Did anyone else notice the sudden moves on orderbooks yesterday on Bittrex? None got taken but they appeared in a bunch and then just disappeared (or I imagined it but that is very rare for me).

Two projects are on Monero and Tari testnet.

https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/dandelion.html

https://github.com/tari-project/tari/releases/tag/v0.0.9

While Dandelion will help with anonymity, I am not fully sure how will Tari help beside helping securing the network. I guess now when more people will check it out we will know more. It took year and a half of development since it was announced.

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And now people have more choices among Monero as privacy cryptocurrencies, others like ONION or Zcash are getting attention from those willing to recover their privacy rights.

Speculators gonna speculate.

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The government keeps demanding proof of source of funds for bitcoin more and more. Also, wait til you see what Steve Mnuchin has in store for us later in the year. Government heavy handedness will drive people into the loving arms of morono.

It is not just articles. Some people truly believe in to it. I keep reading posts on Monero subredit asking if running Monero node is legal. They see that a big part of taxes that are collected will be much harder to collect when everyone use Monero and dont have imagination that Governments can simply change the way to collect taxes.  Much bigger threat to governments is permissionless decentralized money that they cant control. The anonymity part is way way way less of a threat.

Not an alt account, I'm a living breathing flesh and blood man. So yeah, I was chasing alt coins forever, but most of those are traps. The fear porn articles about Monero are going to cause a lot of people to miss out on real money

I'm glad you took almost 8 months before deciding to commit. you sir have done well on the DYOR train. I studied this project for almost a year before deciding to buy in. But then again because I did my research I was able to figure out that there was something severely suspicious with the amount of coins being dumped and the fact I could not mine much. that of course was the event we now call the cripple miner, which was inherited from the bytecoin scam crew.

Now you have 1 activity, 1 post and 1 merit in 8 months.
Although I would be very surprised if you are not a alt account.

Yup. Great you finally come out and said it after a year of lurking.      Monero is specially good at spending. For holding that a looooot people do you can use whatever for spend Monero fungibility kicks ass.


Uh, the outreach made a Monero calendar. Hopefully they will fill it regularly with events. https://www.monerooutreach.org/calendar.html

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+1, I see a big price for moner, at the moment it is too small, and it's silly to sell at that price