Topic: [XMR] Monero Speculation - page 224. (Read 3313084 times)

I think that last sentence is the most important of all. We are still in the beginning of a great change. Many bugs will occur. It is important to support projects that have the most developers who are passionate about the possibilities offered by cryptocurrencies.

Supporting projects that exist just as a money grab or as a copy and past can leave you with nothing on a 0-day. I'm looking at you Electroneum.

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/09/25/monero-burning-vulnerability/
Monero developers have disclosed a major bug that could really have been nasty. Until now, attackers could have drained Monero from exchanges (or any organizational wallet), all for the cost of a few transaction fees.

“A bug in the wallet software allowed a determined attacker to cause significant damage to organizations present in the Monero ecosystem with minimal cost,” declares the official statement. “[…] A determined attacker could burn the funds of an organization’s wallet whilst merely losing network transaction fees.”

Without getting too technical – the Monero blockchain can actually “burn” XMR under certain circumstances, as can Bitcoin and Ethereum.

In Monero’s case, the blockchain assumes transactions between identical stealth addresses to be illegitimate transactions, and “burns” one of the them, allowing just a single “correct” transaction through.

Monero’s blockchain doesn’t remove or replace burned XMR – it just makes it unusable.

The Monero community has known about burning when transactions occur between identical stealth addresses for a while – but security researchers have only just discovered that it allows hackers to siphon XMR directly from external wallets.

The disclosure steps through this process. After modifying a Monero wallet to make transactions using the same stealth address as the target wallet, “[attackers] send, say, a thousand transactions of one XMR to an exchange.”

“Because the exchange’s wallet does not warn for this particular abnormality (i.e. funds being received on the same stealth address), the exchange will, as usual, credit the attacker with 1,000 XMR,” a Monero dev explains.

“The attacker then sells his XMR for BTC and lastly withdraws this BTC. The result of the hacker’s action(s) is that the exchange is left with 999 unspendable / burnt outputs of 1 XMR.”

Developers created a private fix to distribute (in secret) to major exchanges and merchants so as not to draw any attention during the patching process. Monero devs note that it appears no losses were incurred due to the bug.

The statement ends with a stern warning: “This event is again an effective reminder that cryptocurrency and the corresponding software are still in its infancy and thus quite prone to (critical) bugs.”

LMAO
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you use DASH.

That explains why all online services have been in maintenance mode the past days  

Whats up with polo and other exchanges freezing xmr for the last couple days?

I believe in this coin, because it seems to me that similar anonymous coins have a great future. People want to be completely anonymous in crypto.

I don’t now if I should be worried or not

Whats up with polo and other exchanges freezing xmr for the last couple days?

I'm not sure anyone knows for sure.

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To bad the devs don’t give any comment. I don’t now if I should be worried or not

Rumours abound. I'm not sure anyone knows for sure.

Whats up with polo and other exchanges freezing xmr for the last couple days?