fireland

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   by fireland 5y ago

   Obviously the mainstream media will immediately publish a wave of retractions to reflect this because they botched the reporting on this incident. https://www.reddit.com/r/media_criticism/comments/mmhz7n/
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   by fireland 5y ago

   Tumbling on bitcoin doesn't work like it used to a few years ago. There are now multiple companies dedicated to blockchain tracking and analysis. All coins coming from tumblers are flagged. It's possible because the bitcoin blockc
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   by fireland 5y ago

   It's not, that analysis is from 2017 and the issues described have been mitigated. The Monero team updated mixin sampling algorithm to better reflect real world usage. They increased the ring size from a minimum of 4 in the paper to 11
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   by fireland 5y ago

   A hashpower majority is not needed. For the latter, if a single digit percentage of the hashpower decides to enforce the ban, other miners in the network have an economic incentive to join the ban as well. The reasoning is explained here h