How Monero Users Get Traced (RUN YOUR OWN NODE!)

Disappointed in Kraken.

Monero fucking sucks, no government condemns it and it’s inflationary, it’s bound to fail.

just transact everything through urbit
Users have unique cryptographic identities that are not tied to their real-world identities or locations. This helps protect users' privacy and makes it difficult to link a user to a physical address.

Quality content as usual.

Using monero is cheaper than using a card in modern day shops with their surcharges rip

Right now monero doesn't work, move everything to a different coin before monero stops existing forever

Do you still think atomic swaps are the future?

irs giving out money for things we already knew about monero and can easily work around is pure comedy

What about FeatherWallet? It has a built in option to connect to Tor automatically, doesn't that do the job?

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L crypto guys

Mental is the guy you would never notice in a store as being so knowledgeable about the dark web. He’s clean cut and articulate. Typically you picture these hippie types that haven’t showered in a week or more 😆 love this shit bro

What are your favorite non-KYC exchanges?

When you run full node your ip participating in possible criminal transactions on the network, so the feds can knock on your door one day. Don't do it. You wouldn't want to hangout in a drug cartel neighborhood righ?, why then you want to hangout on monero network?

Great video like alwasys. Keep up the gokd work.

the glowies cant STAND not having power over monero users…

But when your node broadcast transaction -- it would be possible to trace at which node it first appeared, given enough poisoned nodes.

To the OPSEC advice with the swap services you mean the following (please tell me if I got it right):

When Swapping lets say USDT on ETH main (for relatability in this case) to stealthEX, I shall then use a specific stealthEX recieving Adress I set up in my GUI Wallet for example and then spend the whole UTXO I get from that to that stealthEX recieving address to another recieving address in my wallet to prevent EAE attacks in specific? Am I getting this right?

In short:

ETH Adress 1 ---> StealthEX ETH Adress |[Swap happens]| StealthEX XMR Adress ---> My StealthEX recieving Adress for all my ETH Address 1 swaps ---> Any other consolidation adress within my wallet.
Whenever swapping something from XMR to anything else - do not use the same amount. Use a private node. Is this perfect OPSEC?

I always use a private node and I always use one recieving Address for each Sender when using Monero. I then always consolidate them to my consolidation addresses that nobody else uses to spend from there for wahtever purposes, in order to prevent EAE attacks. I always use a private node and have a full copy of the complete not pruned blockchain. I never reuse the same amount when dealing with the same entity on the recieving end, who doesnt straight up know its me again (such as any swapping service). Is my OPSEC lacking in any spot?

From my understanding on how monero works, reusing adresses under certain circumstances (recieving from the same entity who already knows its you) cannot cause any OPSEC weaknesses. So it should be safe to recieve to the same adress, when it comes from the same adress (in case you swap even more USDT from the exact same ETH adress, through the same swap service for example). Consolidating to the same inner wallet only recieving adress should also be perfectly safe from my understanding. If you are swapping from a different adress or from a different network (lets say Bitcoin) through the same service, you obviously want to recieve on a different adress but should be safe to consolidate to the same.

EAE attacks should only be possible if you send from the same adress you recieved to, to the sender you recieved to on that adress from that same sender. Any other way makes EAE impossible. Am I correct with this?

Run ur own monero node if you can, if you cant then connect to trusted remote nodes with VPNs/TOR/I2P whatever enabled. Plus Always churns(Sending balance to urself) 1-2 times but it can be more, depends on ur threat models, also add random times between churns.

A blind man can see that the united states government has their noses stuck all the way up everyone's rears as of lately. With increasing censorship being possible (adult site thing) people should be getting worried. Drug transactions or PEZ dispencers, it is our right to have an anonymous currency. Often the glowies forget the United States was founded TO NOT be like this.

Ain't you always shilling it?

Maybe a n00b question but if they generate decoy outputs doesn't that leave those nodes to identification as poisoned nodes by flagging this behaviour?

sweet a new video from my favorite monero shilltuber 👌

Monero dev from Minnesota rahhhhhhhhhhhh

Ah damn so ive been being tracked the entire time. Ive been using one use wallets though.

Question what would be the easiest way to run a remote monero node on a ddns server?

It's easier for your ISP to trace your Node. It's even easier for your hosting company to maliciously modify your Node. Possibilities are ♾️

So develop your threat model. Most people don't have technical expertise to run nodes. It's also very costly. Also, if you can't self-host it, that's another attack surface your are adding.

I miss the old days of trade and barter, then gold came along...

This would work if only tor hadnt been compromised and entirely run by the feds since ages ago...

Should’ve mentioned unstoppable swap. It does bitcoin monero atomic swaps over tor. No need to trust an exchange ever.
Oh yeah, and haveno-reto

Everyone loves crypto until it’s actually private

how are your thumbnails always so good

LOL, the nsa has more then enough compute to follow all your monero transactions signer addresses to track your monero

Can someone say complicated?

But can your own node be traced by it’s IP and some other network signature? Isn’t running your own node actually just like carrying your money in a nice shiny armored suitcase through a criminal district? Safer in a moment but also less safe overall?

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ahh yes my fav fed

Have you seen the recent andriod blocking sideloading? It's already affecting phones like mine :/

I'm wondering if some of the OpSec leaks are coming from improperly configured killswitches, and an over confidence that if their proxy/tor dies then they can't connect out.

What about feather

It would be an interesting tutorial video to create a VPS (like on DigitalOcean) just to setup a node you trust.

the feather wallet uses tor by default so maybe recommend that?

don't care for that at the moment... most people use xmr only to buy small amount of drugs or guns... the feds know that, but as long as it is not high quantity they won't go behind you.

Whoever doesn’t run their own node is their own insider threat.

aicryptoregs AI fixes this. Monero users tracing discussion video.

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Monero is easily my favourite crypto based on the anonymity it provides and the sheer will of the devs to remain that way

Congrats in advance for when you make your thousandth video!

O kenny man, just giving you a shout real quick here. Tried to shoot ya an email and what do ya know the email doesn't seem to exist anymore! the one linked up in yer little about page, with the 'view email address' button. figured id give ya a heads up :)