I just hope we are not all sitting in a train made of bamboo and palm leaves. Where is iCEBREAKER... that was always his favorite taunt to the dash people... CARGO CULT!
You don't have to just sit and hope because XMR's progress is happening in open source repos and public testnets.
Peter Todd created the 'Dash = cargo cult' meme. It's a perfect metaphor for their primitive scammunity's 'BuiLd baMboo runwaYs and teh cRypto godS sHall retURn witH LamBos11!1' ideology.
Where have I been? I've been helping ensure humanity doesn't get stuck with bad digital cash in a Chaumsian failure mode (aka Black Mirror) timeline.
Who do you think is buying /u/Flenst a monstrous Death Star workstation capable of unraveling and destroying Dash's fake, broken privacy once and for all?
Hint: it's not the cheap/broke Dash-holes paying for all that sweet RAM. Those greedy ratfuckers
wouldn't even pony up a decent bug bounty for PrivateSend zero-days.
Despite plastering this challenge all over, the Masternode whales
voted down the proposal to fund a real PrivateSend pen-test regime. It's almost as if the Dark-coin bagholders didn't want to find out whether or not PrivateSend is really private.
Dash De-anonymization ContestIcebreaker and other trolleros:
I have donated $1 to Monero's development team. I sent 0.25 Dash (TX ID: 59d51690d4b56ddbf1e393fa8d3a49bcfc3247f270f36be3b6ee411802666cba-000) to shapeshift.io, which converted it to Bitcoin and sent it to the official Monero donation address listed at
https://getmonero.org/getting-started/donate/.
I challenge you to de-anonymize this transaction. To make it just a little easier, I only used four rounds of Darksend, so it's exponentially less private than it would be with the maximum eight rounds.
Please tell me what address this transaction originated from.
Cheers!
So now Dash bagholders and shills are being taught a lesson by being trolled at the protocol level, watching helplessly as their once-vaunted shitty version of CoinJoin is triturated into its blockchain's constituent individual transactions.
Around 13% of DASH's privateSends are traceable to their origin
This post contains two different approaches on tracing privateSend to its originating address. The one that got this post started can be found later in the post as "Mixing cluster + metadata". The more serious one will directly follow. Despite getting some flak I followed it further and am 100% certain there is a high percentage certainty for the results of my parse, in the 90+% range. If there is a bounty for tracing privateSends I also formally apply for it with this post.
I strongly recommend to stop using privateSend if all mixed funds have one originating address in your wallet!
This approach WILL find your address, if all your mixed funds originated from one address and your privateSend has more than one input. No matter how often you mixed.
Data from parsing around 15 days of privateSends yield a success rate of ~13%. One day of privateSend takes a bit more than one hour to parse before the update that enabled 16 rounds of mixing on a single machine. The results itself look without a doubt legit in the most cases. Or to explain it different: if your privateSend is traceable the way I describe and you did something shady this should be enough to knock on your door.
Tick, tock...