the_stc

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by the_stc 8y ago
I will look up the complaints about Tor. I apologize for my tone and do not mean to speak ill of the Monero team. I still choose Monero and feel it has the best benefits overall.
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by the_stc 8y ago
If they do not meet our bar then they will not be able to join for now. Over time we will increase our methods to verify escorts. If we feel someone is not operating under their own agency we will disable their account. Will this fix everyt
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by the_stc 8y ago
>and the remaining 5% are also vulnerable to things like warrants at the exchange and timing attacks I was under the impression that no exchanges handle shielded transactions. What do you mean by timing? I would assume you go t-z-t and l
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by the_stc 8y ago
Private-by-default is semi-dishonest. Many tx on Monero are owned by a few entities that are friendly with LE or may get hacked. Thus all those exchange tx or payment gateway tx that are on the blockchain are in practice transparent to the
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by the_stc 8y ago
On 2: Monero is almost the same. ShapeShift does 7-15% of all tx at least. How many transactions are actually private after you consider hacks or LE warrants? Those TX are what you depend on to get false spends. On 3: How many people must a
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by the_stc 8y ago
Because the decoy selection is not part of protocol not everyone is doing it. Some exchanges have increased ringsize but kept old selection system. Not to mention that exchanges make up a large bulk of Monero TX and hence are one warrant&#x
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by the_stc 8y ago
Trusted setup only compromises the supply integrity not privacy. I am not a fan of Zooko or the Green comments on backdoors and LE but do not misrepresent trusted setup.
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by the_stc 8y ago
>This was a well-known design choice where the user could balance between transaction size and privacy--people who preferred faster/cheaper transactions chose to sacrifice untraceability. Nowadays, the default option enforces higher
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by the_stc 8y ago
Monero has some real issues! These papers are OK but I am not sure if they focus on current practical issues: Main issue: Ringsize is small. Used to be 3 [why??] got bumped to 5 because 3 is obviously useless. Now getting bumped to 7. The t
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by the_stc 8y ago
We cannot launch our project too soon [details in profile]. We will do what we can to prevent trafficking: asking for ID and verifying they have an escorting presence is a good start. Analytics to look at payment flow and see if one entity
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by the_stc 9y ago
From what I remember, those rely on some older aspects of Monero no longer present. But more importantly, they do not provide positive guidance on exactly how much mixing [churn] with what ring-sizes are needed to achieve a certain anonymit
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by the_stc 9y ago
That is almost certainly how many people will view it, and is the reason why we are set-up as an extrajurisdictional company: it will make enforcement very difficult.
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by the_stc 9y ago
https://PinkDate.is | Extrajurisdictional | REMOTE | Monero Security Analyst & Engineer | Contract Work PinkDate is an extrajurisdictional company that will dramatically improve the escorting [sex work] industry. We depend o
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by the_stc 9y ago
It certainly is a possibility. I am acutely aware of it every day. It is incredibly high stress. That is why our core team desires to hire people to run the business day-to-day, so we minimize our exposure online and hence reduce possibilit
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by the_stc 9y ago
Do not change my words. I am not pretending algorithmic magic will prevent sex trafficking. I am saying that, to the best of our abilities, we will ban it from our platform . At least for underage trafficking, by checking IDs we are alread
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by the_stc 9y ago
I am pointing out that not all ICOs are pure-product-free-plays. Voting, we are uncertain how that would work but very much open to it. Dividends, yes, that is the entire point of us selling equity. This is considerably better than what you
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by the_stc 9y ago
We have consulted with lawyers. None of them are going to give the go-ahead on this project. Quote from one of them: There is no such things as extrajurisdictional, unless you're on the moon. My reply: If our opsec is good, we may as w
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by the_stc 9y ago
>really We issue dividends which is more than you can say about SNAP.
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by the_stc 9y ago
More than that, our business is not legal in the US which is one of our primary markets.
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by the_stc 9y ago
Our ICO is really an IPO. We are selling shares in our company (unregulated security). We have a real business model, good fundamentals. And before the full ICO, we will have a working service. Cryptocurrency allows us to avoid capital and
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by the_stc 9y ago
How so? I am aware that if our opsec fails, a creative prosecutor will have no shortage of options to go after me with. It won't shut down the operation because a successor will restore from backups and move on. But it will make me unh
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by the_stc 9y ago
This. At my company, we want a way to show investors our actual revenue numbers in an auditable manner, trustless. This is because we are extrajurisdictional and have high opsec concerns and cannot simply hire an accounting firm to give us
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by the_stc 9y ago
We facilitate sex work, yes. We do not support trafficking, we verify IDs first, and we will use pattern recognition to detect trafficking/pimps and ban them from our platform. This is not perfect, but it is a great improvement from wh
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by the_stc 9y ago
They would need to break our opsec, at which point a civil suit is the least of my concerns.
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by the_stc 9y ago
>Then you're in for a lot of trouble if you get investigated, audited, or whatever Yes that is accurate. This endeavor relies on me getting our opsec right.
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by the_stc 9y ago
A company is a group of people operating together. That is what our company is. We are not incorporated in any jurisdiction.
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by the_stc 9y ago
It is completely disgusting. We started by calling our ICO an IPO and making a note that we are selling shares, not tokens. But people still want to see a whitepaper and hear about tokens. And despite clearly saying we accept physical dolla
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by the_stc 9y ago
This is why we are not launching our ICO until after we have a working service. We are raising some money in a pre-ICO (Series A) but given the scams, we felt it was best to deliver before going public. Of course, we are not a typical ICO.
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by the_stc 9y ago
Company can refer to a group or team in addition to the legal construct. As a thought experiment if someone winked into existence in orbit around Earth and started selling data, it seems quickly understood if they were to call themselves a
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by the_stc 9y ago
No, we explicitly do not work with pimps or traffickers. Users must be of age, and we will do what pattern recognition we can to detect when multiple accounts are controlled by one entity. Escorts spend a huge amount of time (up to 70% or m

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