On 8/31/20, jim bell wrote:

https://decrypt.co/40284/us-homeland-security-can-now-track-privacy-crypto-m...

Jim Bell's comment: I don't know if this is true, but true or not, we need to learn the truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rtd3md11g CipherTrace's Monero tracing tool - Chat with Dave Jevans, Dr. Sarang Noether, and Justin Ehrenhofer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EesoMKUlWqo&t=2070 Dave Jevans https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/dp4phx/david_jevans_ceo_of_ciphertr... https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ik0t3h/ciphertrace_monero_tracing_e... https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i0u8bn/sec_awards_contract_to_ciph... https://www.coindesk.com/ciphertraces-blockchain-forensics-service-now-cover... https://news.bitcoin.com/ciphertrace-says-banks-unknowingly-process-2-billio... https://www.coindesk.com/ciphertrace-enters-race-to-solve-cryptos-fatf-compl... https://ciphertrace.com/response-to-fatf-on-vasp-regulation/ It has been noted that those shilling only one particular cryptocurrency over all others (Maxi's) tend to gloss over its own weaknesses. Monero-XMR has a huge army of retarded drug addicted fanbois shilling XMR privacy without knowing a clue about what its actual technical capabilities and weaknesses may or may not be. Cash Fusion and Cash Shuffle (commonly noted with BCH but applicable to other coins, such as CoinJoin JoinMarket with BTC) are also heavily shilled in similar manner by similar low quality crowds... interesting protocols, but probably not exactly quite ready to be staking lives on them as claimed by some. And most comparative "reviews" of privacy coins to date are a joke as far as in depth academic analysis goes. Simply put, many coin privacy technologies suffer from all of too few, too early, or too low quality statistical and cryptographic analysis to be making the claims their crowds are making about them. A privacy coin leveraging both some cryptographic and statistical privacy elements/tools could be interesting, were either alone thought to be weak or early in the maturity cycle. " While the tools were developed for the use of the DHS to track stolen or illegally used funds, CipherTrace suggests that crypto exchanges, trading desks, and investment funds will also benefit from knowing that they aren’t accepting tainted funds. " Censorship of all that which cannot be publicly proven to be "good", "approved", and "politically correct" uses and sources, that's these "suggestions", the intended rollout of these colored-coin regimes. And clearly reason why impenetrable privacy coins are needed. Amazing they are not yet sniffing all $hundos for cocaine, booty sweat DNA, and fully tracking the serial numbers with ID at every transaction point. No worries, that's coming next soon. And here we see CipherTrace CEO Dave Jevans outright lying about what privacy is, and exposing his twisted activism against privacy among GovCorp, in Media, shilling weak tech as sound, etc... " Although today’s announcement would seem to be a blow against Monero and the promise of privacy coins, CipherTrace paints it as a positive for the future of XMR—particularly given that it has been delisted from some exchanges. "Analytics is crucial to the survival of privacy coins because, if they cannot evaluate risks, some governments could make transacting with privacy coins extremely difficult or ban them outright, like Japan,” said CipherTrace CEO Dave Jevans, in a statement provided by the company. “Several Korean Exchanges delisted privacy coins and, just last week, several Australian exchanges banned Monero and Zcash. As privacy advocates ourselves, our hope is that by developing capabilities for tracing Monero, we can help to ensure Monero's viability." "