Very interesting video. Is far as I can see, there are really only three points of weakness that were exploited by the chain analysis. The first was if the transaction was started using one of their Monero nodes. The second was exchanges or partner services. The third was the fee structure used. So as long as you use the default fees, use trusted Monero nodes (especially your own), and you either don't use exchanges/partner services or at the very least, have multiple wallets where each wallet connects to at most one exchange/service (i.e. one wallet has public money inflows from a single service and another has public money outflows from a single service), it would be virtually impossible to have your transactions traced.

https://archive.org/details/chainalysis_XMR

TLDW :

1. do not trust random nodes, go and host your own (locally or not) -> to prevent them from logging ip addresses and to deanonymize on the IP level (attacking dandelion from what i understand ?)
2. if you do end up using a remote node, connect to it through tor to maintain anonymity
3. Stay off centralised exchanges, never KYC.

I feel sorry for bitcoiners and windows users. They are fucking retards and don't know it.

TLDW of what's in the vídeo?

List of wallets shows featherwallet being ignored again 😀

all links were taken down, here's the new links:

• https://odysee.com/@tuxsudo:6/chainalysis_XMR:69
• https://rumble.com/v5dyogt-chainanalysis-2023-monero-xmr-irs-office-hours-august-29-2023-presentation.html
• I2P Torrent:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d371d4e4cb9a3760ef79e94fde0b8edf22062e49&dn=Chainalysis+Presentation+on+Monero+to+IRS+-+August+2023&tr=http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php

Thanks Nyx!

It seems the recommendations are:

• use a trusted VPN
• use a trusted remote node (like your own remote node)
• in general, be careful which exchanges you use

I've put this video on the next Monero Research Lab meeting agenda: https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1070

All are free to join the text-based MRL meetings.

by the way, check out my blogpost on that topic https://blog.nowhere.moe/opsec/chainalysisattempts/index.html, with my opsec recommendations