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by the_stc 9y ago
There is no solid guide on how to use Monero operationally in a safe manner. Everyone will yell to churn, but there is no official information on how much and how to churn. Ringsize 5 is dangerously low. Lack of proxy support in the wallet
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by the_stc 9y ago
An extrajurisdictional company operates outside of existing jurisdictions. It might be helpful to think of us as being headquartered in space...if our opsec is correct, we might as well be! (Otherwise I'll be arrested and our contingen
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by the_stc 9y ago
The problem is that miners cost in USD but Monero fee is set in XMR, fixed. If fee goes down 80% but XMR/USD goes up again 5 times then the problem persists. Not an easy thing to fix! If Bulletproofs and the new CT format come in and t
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by the_stc 9y ago
At my company (details in profile, sex-work related), this is exactly why we are centralized. Some competitors go on about smart contracts, and how people will meet for services and exchange escrow keys...it is far-fetched! For example: We
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by the_stc 9y ago
Left my job and legal security behind, and decided to take the full startup plunge. Started a project that will increase sex worker safety while providing a smoother, faster experience for everyone involved: https://pinkdate.is .
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by the_stc 9y ago
shapeshift publishes all trades
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by the_stc 9y ago
Thank you.
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by the_stc 9y ago
This is not correct. If the tumbler is compromized then your records are trivially known. It is a bad assumption to think tumblers are not honeypots or do not sell their records to LE.
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by the_stc 9y ago
Yes, a combination of Tumbling and Monero is a good step. I do this as part of my living. To bootstrap our company it took me over a month to get linked-bitcoins to unlinked-bitcoins. Monero is not a magic-cure-all! Monero needs a very big
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by the_stc 9y ago
This does very small amount to enhance your privacy. Whatever exchange you use will track those trades. If the exchange is not tracking you then making multiple trades will not help very much.
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by the_stc 9y ago
Most ICOs are playing off these things, trying to avoid the SEC, and in turn, hurting investors by giving them a bad deal. Tezos, for example, calls their investors donors, giving them donations. This is disgusting. We (see profile) are doi
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by the_stc 9y ago
IOTA made their own crypto, then when got called on it they denied it mattered at first. Then they backed down and said it was intentional! So that they could destroy anyone else using their open source code. When pressed to promise that th
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by the_stc 9y ago
But the PoW is for small IOT devices right? Or at any case it is for regular users, and does not take them minutes to compute. I cannot see how that is resistant to an adversary with dedicated hardware.
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by the_stc 9y ago
My company (details in profile) relies on Tor. We help people, but governments would like to shut us down. We actually will expose everything via a non .onion, then proxy it to our HS (SSL term done on the hidden service). We'll expose
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by the_stc 9y ago
Being undiscoverable is a big help. For our ancillary services, we're taken to using Tor2Web to auth mode HS servers because some random domain is less likely to look interesting for people to poke at. Publishing a .onion, especially w
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by the_stc 9y ago
Can not a database or simply digital signatures do the same thing? Why does Maersk need a trustless system?
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by the_stc 9y ago
Exactly! We do not play that game. We're clear that our app uses traditional tech and isn't some magic dApp fairy dust.
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by the_stc 9y ago
Very few ICOs do right by investors. We're one of the few offering equity positions and dividends. The law conveniently provides an excuse to them, see Tezos even outright calling it a donation! As an EJC the laws don't apply in t
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by the_stc 9y ago
This is accurate. My startup is blockchain funded, but we have a serious money-making business model. But some people still want the sexy smart contract tech decentralized sound clips to get really hyped. People give us a hard time because
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by the_stc 9y ago
>Why would you expect an email provider to also provide a calendar? Because calendar has become a key part of a productivity suite and Email is the keystone. We use Protonmail right now to avoid Google or Fastmail or someone serving up a
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by the_stc 9y ago
Our company is not legal (details in profile). We chose Protonmail to start because our biggest concern was getting our emails served to the government on request down-the-line. We pay a significant monthly charge to use their services and
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by the_stc 9y ago
We may write up more when we have things stably working after a while. But we are very cautious mentioning any specific tools, as that gives attackers a head-start. We won't mention OS, stack, DB, etc. But think something like secure b
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by the_stc 9y ago
Calling it securities fraud is rather unfair if you ask me. Why do you say fraud? Sure, we do not follow the SEC rules. In fact, the SEC opinion on ICOs is what galvanized us to go all out and insist on offering real equity to investors.
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by the_stc 9y ago
Escorting might not be viewed as fundamental a right as driving, but yes, same idea. We put morality over legality. Extrajurisdictional does not just mean criminal. It means that we operate in a way that no specific jurisdiction can apply i
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by the_stc 9y ago
Only a few people have access to the keys, plus a set of third parties (think lawyers) that have a shard of an SSS setup. Changing the boot key can be done now and then. But we think it is feasible to drop the disks entirely for the main se
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by the_stc 9y ago
Our app has a somewhat Tinder-like feel, though it's paid (escorts). I don't want to go overboard plugging, so see my profile for details. For fun, here's how we score on the article's items: 1. No scammers. We require p
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by the_stc 9y ago
Except they are shady as hell and have not published anything to establish that they are solvent. It is fine to use right now to hedge against small changes. If something crashes hard then people try to get out of Tether, it will fall apart
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by the_stc 9y ago
That'd be swell. As an EJC, transacting in USD is more difficult, hence we must use cryptocurrencies. Is Ripple pegged to USD? I do not want anything complicated, just a coin or token that has a 1:1 ratio with USD. Charge me 5% or 10%
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by the_stc 9y ago
I do not really care about Bitcoin politics, but I will say as a user and business, the fees and confirm times are ridiculous and need a fix now, not in "18 months" when LN comes out (and then who knows how long until high adoptio
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by the_stc 9y ago
I do not mind having Bitcoin keep going up. But as a business owner that relies heavily on cryptocurrencies, I would really love it if things were more stable. We are building a business on privacy, anonymity, and cryptocurrency as a backbo

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