https://cointelegraph.com/news/digital-currencies-could-threaten-us-geopolit... “There is no country with more to lose from the disruptive potential of digital currency than the United States,” say analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Two faced Banks, Banksters and Govts giving accounts to crypto exchanges, while buying cryptos to their pockets, shilling CBDC's, FUD dissing on OG distributed unstoppable cryptocurrencies. search: YouTube censored and deleted livestreams of the blockchain halving event parties. Early attempt at periodic table of cryptos... https://i.redd.it/cpp9nt6cjuz41.jpg https://jes.al/crypto-table/ https://www.wired.com/story/harry-pottery-cryptocurrency-privacy-zcash-moner... https://twitter.com/IvanBogatyy/status/1196441051814223880 https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/breaking-mimblewimble-privacy-model-84... $60/week of AWS spend, By running a rogue node tweaked to save all intermediary transaction gossiping data. That's it! I was able to uncover the exact addresses of senders and recipients for 96% Grin transactions in real time. Hardly any cryptocurrencies using TLS or interfacing well with privacy/location/anonymous overlay networks either. Consider also deploying satellite and GnuRadio integration. Still no good distributed DEX's in operation with open APIs for wide range of coins to plug into for cross-chain atomic swaps. https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/ https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/paper.pdf https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/pingreject.pdf We describe remote side-channel attacks on the privacy guarantees of anonymous cryptocurrencies. Our attacks, which we validate on Zcash and Monero, enable a remote attacker to identify the P2P node of the payee of any anonymous transaction being sent into the network. This enables the adversary to link all transactions sent to a user, to recover a user's IP address from their anonymous payment address, and to link a user's diversified addresses. In addition, for Zcash, we show that an attacker can remotely crash any Zcash node for which the attacker knows a payment address, and set up a remote timing attack on an ECDH key exchange involving a victim's private viewing key. In principle, this attack can fully recover the victim's private viewing key, thereby completely breaking receiver privacy. https://www.wired.com/story/dark-web-welcome-to-video-takedown-bitcoin/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/gofd6b/i_think_its_remarkable_that_... https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1263218326282612736 'I think it’s remarkable that we’ve built a cryptocurrency where some poor schmuck can’t spend their money without everyone on Twitter knowing all the details and commenting about it.' -- Matthew Green https://decrypt.co/29799/this-is-why-xrps-price-has-been-crushed-and-is-stru... Centralized wannabee cryptos are all inflating, premining, founder taxing, censoring, patenting, and governing your values down to zero... just like Fiat. External privacy tech like JoinMarket, CashShuffle, CashFusion while handy fun... and spies in SPV and similar upstream thin client node protocols... all risky for cryptos lacking native privacy in protocol, and scalability. Evergrowing blockchains of UTXO transaction logs are unneeded bloat and a standing privacy risk. ZEC, XMR, BTC, BCH, ETH, pick any toplist... these are all old legacy first generation coins regarding storage. They cannot survive the dead weight of their own tx chainlogs growing and clogging their infrastructure, clients, and bandwidth... and that tx block history carried will be repeatedly raped by mass and targeted privacy exploits. Coinspace must move lots of designthink toward researching tech based on agreeing consensus over the much smaller (and negligible growth) database that is their respective UTXO sets. 8B humans * 512bit/8/2^40 ECC/PQC crypto = 0.5TiB of UTXO db state, add generous 10x extra for consensus and distribution state ops, cryptoprivacy overhead, etc... = max of say 5TiB, forever (grows per human not per tx... 10M humans now = 6GiB, 100M = 60GiB, 1B = 600GiB ...). Global max fits on commodity flashdrive in 10 years. Network and processing bandwidth remains only limit. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/gmhuon/in_the_last_24_hours... Watching the mining pool charts... the large pools are slowly killing off the smaller pools. BTC.com and AntPool are both Bitmain, Nakamoto Coefficient (a measure of decentralization) has dropped to 2, they control 62% of the hashrate. https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day Welcome to joint problem of ASICs... central sole source ASIC Corps presale mining out with their own HW first, then dictating preferred bulk sales channels and destinations... and lack of personal responsibility to your own nominal values held by running and adopting global commodity CPU/GPU mined ASIC-hard coins, abandoning large pools for smaller pools. Avoiding your responsibilities in these ways will get you censored and wiped out... just like Fiat. If it's free no effort you take, you become the victim. Random youtubes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqc-yyoVKg Hayek on Friedman and Keynes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqjwiQidlk Friedman on Cryptocurrency "I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop." -- F.A.Hayek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6S5c6xhXTY "Every destruction is a loss" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQfK8hn0ds Mises on Friedman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtDM7VF3_Rc Friedman on Mises, Rand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymQoIt5k2AI Hoppe vs Friedman and Hayek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXGQDqN67YI Henry Hazlitt: Economics in one lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cle9IWPrBBs Mises on Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfyp_i7y1t0 Murray Rothbard: Gold Standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8u7Sz8n1c Frederic Bastiat: The Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vo7FOFpJYs Hazlitt: The Task Ahead Happy Cryptocurrency Pizza Day.