I sent you a PM.

The short answer is: NOT YOUR NODE, NOT YOUR RULES

"federated" has been used lately to mindfuck ppl into believing they are free and decentralized. A federated government is not a democracy and a federated protocol doesn't set u free. It's the old server-client paradigm.

This chinese paper boils down to the common psychopathic wet dream: an adversary with unlimited resources will control every aspect of life in a totalitarian fashion. It's a fluff: collecting IPs does not "de-anon" any monero tx.

Don't be intimidated, this has never materialzed in the last 10000 yrs. In fact, China has legalized (illegal) mining (metal) coins after its paper currency collapsed (in the 15th century). It can happen again.

They don't like us

and we don't like them. This aggression against humanity will not stand.

asking for trouble... why not go p2p with i2p or retroshare?

SimpleX TOS:

We reserve the right to remove such links from the preset servers and disrupt the conversations that send illegal content via our servers, whether they were reported by the users or discovered by our team.

Get the full guide w/ dope groups to join, including Monero focused ones (reddit)

typical smear campaign trying to link Monero to drug users und drop outs. Last time I called you out you just created a new sock puppet. I wonder what happens next.

[–]rbrunner7XMR Contributor 10 points 2 days ago

Where does this come from? https://github.com/AtomicSwapLabs/AtomicSwapWallet/blob/main/public/monero_wallet_full.wasm

Answer: idk will ask devs.

[–]rbrunner7XMR Contributor 18 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the info.

A bit unfortunate that you list "open source" as one of your key features in your post, but the single most critical part is just a large binary blob where I have to trust you that you didn't doctor it from woodser's original ...

and then... reddit account and all posts deleted.

Sure. First I'm not promoting any project. Test and play and report your findings.

if you want to contact someone you need some kind of reference or ‘ID’

Thats the general problem of key exchange, unavoidable. You have to meet in person or establish trust any other way. Snail mail, key signin, etc. A good protocoll lets you create as many ID's as you wish and doesn't tie that to your phone or google ID. Like SimpleX supports GrapheneOS and linux.

why also do you differentiate ‘trust in servers’ from what you do in session?

Trust is not a dirty word. I do trust SimpleX servers, for example, say 75% and trust is needed in any case, whatever you do. You, for example don't trust me blindly. Thats good.

Session is different, incentivized not by FIAT and the p2p net is not run by the developers but 1959 miners. Latest whitepaper states it is PoW with a PoS overlay. I would say less than 100 peers should not be called a p2p network, not resilient enough. P2P is superior because metadata analysis is harder for an attacker. Particl's secure messaging protocoll is another good example. Using RingCT is the key here.

I offered my time and had a quick look at the code. Almost all of the crypto code is 1:1 from monero-core. That convinced me. I also like the idea to monitor the health of the network using a blockexplorer

TL;DR You can use the same tech as Monero not to send money, but also to send messages.

As you can see in my post on overlay networks I'm all in on DeFi. I just want to do it in a way that doesn't ruin Monero in the process. Blind merge mining and hashlock escrows are NOT the way to implement it correctly. Twiddle sees the problems clearly and points them out, if you dare to read. (He got paid very little and invested a lot of time, so please read.)

I would implement dApps or scripting, first, not on monero core. One-way atomic swaps is all you need! BasicswapDex and Oxen are less known examples.

TL;DR: blind merge mining and hashlock escrows are an attack vector for monero security on the consensus layer and an entry point for trojan horses. We CAN have all the DeFi we want without compromising security.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ZdWe5VZRuo [Kewde - BasicSwap: Increasing Monero's Resiliency using BasicSwap DEX] https://www.monerotalk.live/104 [Creating L2 & Proof of Stake Infrastructure on Cryptonote w/ Kee Jefferys (Oxen)]

At this stage (barter) order book based pricing used primarily for speculation is vastly overrated. When you use XMR for barter what you get will eventually cancel out.

Later on, a elastic money supply, i.e. varieties of social credit based on trust as well as a trustless basis (xmr) will be necessary ... but it will hopefully support ALL people, NOT only the 1% parasites. (That's why I shilled OXEN BTW - credit could be an app there)

And, to put things in perspective, a -25% drop in price means nothing, compared to the effort put into the attack. Fiat drops -25% every so often (measured in real goods). Most people take that, because they rather carry on and not worry about the gun pointed toward their head. To use a racket like this as a unit of measurement amounts to moral insanity.

If I am correct, Binance entered into short contracts, sold their XMR reserves ~@170, then released the BIG NEWS and now buying XMR back ~@130. This is - of course - a scam. Because they knew in advance when they will release the news and guarantee the drop.

Anyways, these financial acrobatics are short lived, so don't worry.

/EDIT/

In the past four years -3.1 standard deviations (FTX debacle) was the lowest value of the daily probability distribution for XMR. This time it is -4 stds, an order of magnitude lower.

Heuristics reveal that the delisting in itself (which was expected) is not a sufficient explanation for the magnitude of the panic. Given the track record, analysis and parallels to past financial attacks, a short wave based on a shark mentality of many players is likely.

For a short run down on Short selling attacks (like this one) you might be interested in https://monero.town/comment/3264836 (doesn't link to the correct comment, is this a bug? anyway.)

This is ~ 4 standard deviations BTW. I'd wait for a W on the dayly before buying the dip.

Tor provides very limited privacy for agents below the NSA level only. And as you can see crypto bros copy their articles, too (in good faith of course). Did you notice the marketing language? They are selling you "privacy". You are the product, I surmise.

I like i2p. Running your own p2p node is fun and games. (mixnets).

And notice how they are discussing mirroring google OR bing ... what a joice. Waiting for a searx-ng instance that implements its own community ranking. Its there. We need to make use of it. How about living in a Monero search bubble?