In 2021 the IRS paid 1.25 Million dollars 💰 to contractors for a tool to track and crack Monero. Did they succeed🤔? Keep reading to find out! #monero In 2020 the IRS was looking for contractors that could crack Monero, Zcash, Dash, Grin, Lightning Network and other privacy projects. Their first proposal was very broad, but in the IRS's second proposal they were very specific in what projects they really wanted cracked...

There was a Privacy Bug in Monero for the last 3 years 😨

How Bad was the bug?
How does this bug affect users of Monero?

This thread answers all of these questions and more! The bug report was released a couple of days ago by the Monero Core Devs. If you want a more technical explanation you can find that report here:

⏰ Time for the Monero Crypto Quiz ⏰

Today's quiz is about Monero's Dynamic Blocsize and Scaling

Let's see who is truly a Monero Nerd 😎 Question 1.

The maximum Monero Transaction Blocksize that is currently possible is:

Phantom Phone

An Anonymous SMS Verification Service from Anon Industries.

I am working on this service right now and here are some details about how the service will work: Phone numbers are terrible technology, but everyone uses them so we are stuck with them for now 😔

But What if you had a working phone number that you could give to platforms that require it?
What if you didn't need to manage a prepaid phone, but used a web service instead?

"Why Would some one need anonymous deliveries?" is a question that we hear often.

Here is an example of a bank working with police to exectute a raid that lead to an innocent mans death: This story all starts with 3D printed guns.

@PopularFront_ interviewed a man called Jstark. JStark is infamous for designing and creating 3D-printed guns. These guns are called ghost guns and are discouraged by governments due to their

https://twitter.com/PopularFront_/status/1447002851721547782

There has been a lot of talk about Monero NFTs. Here are 3 fundamental technical facts on this issue to help you form your own opinion:

1. Monero NFT's are possible
2. We probably won't be able to stop NFTs on Monero, just disincentivize them.
3. NFTs won't hurt Monero much. 1. Monero NFT's are possible

A. You can embed an image (or a hash of this image) in Monero's blockchain.

B. You can trade that NFT around by exposing selective info about your outputs/wallet.

That is a simple overview of how they are possible, but here is a detailed thread:

https://twitter.com/AnonShopApp/status/1625163407195541504

In 2021 the IRS paid 1.25 Million dollars 💰 to contractors for a tool to track and crack Monero. Did they succeed🤔? Keep reading to find out! #monero In 2020 the IRS was looking for contractors that could crack Monero, Zcash, Dash, Grin, Lightning Network and other privacy projects. Their first proposal was very broad, but in the IRS's second proposal they were very specific in what projects they really wanted cracked...

Yesterday we posted about how you can make NFT's on Monero and today we will cover big 3 reasons you should NOT do this 🧵
#monero #xmr

https://twitter.com/AnonShopApp/status/1625163407195541504

1. NFT's Hurt Monero's Privacy

Monero is a crypto project that is focused on privacy and NFT's on Monero could reduce this beloved privacy. The basic NFT system that we have created yesterday relies on the ability to track UTXO's.

Here is how you can build NFT's on Monero 😎
#monero #NFT You need the ability to do these 3 things to make a NFT on any blockchain:

1. Hash an image
2. Embed that hash into the blockchain
3. A rule set and platform to track that hashed image across the chain.

Here is how those steps would look on Monero

Here is How Monero was secretly pre-mined 🧵 People are very suspicious of new cryptocurrencies being launched so most cryptocurrencies are open source when they are launched and Monero is no different in this aspect. But what happens when people don't read the open-source code closely? What can people hide in the code?

Here is how a Zcash Founder helped find a major bug in Monero's Privacy 🧵 Monero uses Ring Signatures to hide which coin is actually being spent in a transaction. When you send a transaction, your wallet chooses 15 other coins from the blockchain and includes them in your transaction. In theory, this hides which coin your transaction is actually

Will Quantum Computers Break Bitcoin?

The answer is more complicated than most people realize, so here is a nuanced but concise thread on the issue👇

1/8 Quantum computers are powerful computers that can make cracking cryptography easier. They are still in development, but scientists believe that they can easily break elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Whenever someone sends a transaction they are using ECC to sign and...

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🚨How Scammers Helped Create Monero🚨
Here is an exposé about the dark history of the beloved cryptocurrency Monero. Get ready for a wild ride that all starts with Monero's White Paper 📝. #monero #xmr #crytpo #privacy @monero

1/15 But a fun fact about Monero is that it doesn't have an OFFICIAL white paper, because Monero was cloned from Bytecoin. Bytecoin launched in 2014 and is based on the CryptoNote protocol. It was heralded as fixing all the privacy issues that plague bitcoin and it SEEMED legit.

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