Dinofelis gives a perfect example of a real-world example of how easy blockchain analysis can be done with just a little information.
There are many reasons to have anonymity built into a coin, instead of being forced to rely on outside services like mixers.
If you aren't a fan or don't think you have a need for this feature, vote with your money and don't buy it.
The market will decide in the long run if a feature is necessary or not.
analysis *IS* done commonly by simply tracking end points.
The bullshit in the middle is called security.. AKA: all your anon tech schemes.
Not sure how many times i can possibly explain cross referencing to a bunch of "experts"
Let me try AGAIN for the 666th time in the last couple years.. with my cracker / hacker experience knowledge i earned with real life.
If you had a system that encrypted snail mail and made it 100% uncrackable..
And you wanted to exploit the system to get the contents..
You could hypothetically intercept or control or manipulate the end points.
I could for example simply wait for your mail to be delivered.
Social engineering for example has been responsible for a LOT of hacks.
As well as other methods such as US Marshall arrest warrants when the show up at your door.
Turning on VPN logging for 2 years running while allowing the service to continue to run.
Or the obvious phone up some provider and bullshit them and get the passwords etc.
Or be in control of all inputs and outputs of the internet in North America like the US govt is in fact..
I seen a report over a decade ago that mentioned the US govt controls the back bones relay servers.
It was alleged that the first hop on a trace route leaving your ISP would be landing on a US govt controlled machine.
So i did a check even though i am in Canada.
So what did i see when looking up the first hop on my trace ?
The first IP was registered online to the USA DOD ..dept of defense.
Same group of guys that used BRIBERY to get a phone number to nab Bin Laden
..that cost them buying a rat in the middle east a Lambo.
Since i don't know if it is still regged to the DOD ..if they were smart they obfuscated the matter.
I would not want it broadcast it's a US govt IP with plain text.
Nothing like a false sense of security .. as printed on Monero Hoodies to placate the masses
So a Lambo huh ?
How many of these greedy services in Crypto exist that would happily rat you out for a chunk of cash .. or Lambo from the CIA ?
Especially when they are confronted with a warrant anyway..
Most ..that is what !
Any site i used my email address inexplicably sent me malware in Crypto.
The trusted are in reality not trust worthy in the slightest..
Why does that matter ?
Your information is guarded by pools or exchanges etc.
Funny story.. Mullick had no idea how a user was regged here to Troll me using my Cryptsy Registration first and last name.
Kind of funny how "Trust Worthy" they are yet somehow my fucking full name got leaked to a Troll mouthing me off on the forum here.
Not only does Poloniex and Coinbase and others collect your info but they do rat you out too.
Coinbase and Cryptsy admitted it already.
And no you don't NEED to be verified.. having them hand over all your trade info and IP address can often be damning *enough*
So to the snotty little fuckhead having a jab at me earlier..
"Moral of the story" ?
Yeah, i will tell you what it is.. the ANON shit is an illusion (a false sense of security)
Controlling the start point and end point renders the bullshit in the middle irrelevant most often.
I know i am a long time cracker and i have the mentality and the experience to back it up.
Do you shitcoin'ers ?
What is your experience ?
You learned c/c++ after showing up here 2 years ago and now your a world "expert" ?
Or you read news stories on the web before ?
Hey fuckheads.. my old buddy who hacked a world famous company and made headlines news more than once was popped by the FBI.
I barley got by.. lucky for me my buddy said what he was doing was too risky and said don't bother helping.
Or i would be in jail too. (i offered to help him on our PC game cracking group IRC channel)
You ?
You mouthy idiots read about the story of me and my friends on the news.. I
WAS THE NEWS DUMB CUNTS.
over what ?
Hacking and Cracking and coding.
I have my name mentioned in the original credits for example on about a half dozen different Valve Steam cracks.
I was one of the very first guys to code emulators.. a creative attack.
I pioneered a whole shitload of ways of exploiting the program known as Steam and half the fucking planet had my code and PC Games on their machines.
Further more the current one people use now is based off of my work and my names is credited for it too.
It was easy.. a kid in the candy store.
I looked at my target and had a blast thinking of all the endless ways to exploit Steam.
And hell yeah i found many
Doug and Gabe etc know my name well LOL
You guys ? hahahha
This was not the point to the topic i made though.
My first post went on about other aspects.. such as the relation or comparison to Bitcoin.
And why they did not even TRY to push the ANON concept to the Bitcoin system.
They didn't ..they simply made ANOTHER coin.
Pretty obvious why huh ?
Don't forget people Gavin A. had a request by the FBI to have a little pow-wow meeting.. he did.
NO he never did say what happened.
Back then he was paid almost a million dollars a year salary by the BTC Foundation.
Trust ?
Did i... or did i not already mention how Risto spent MEW money from his employee / treasurer ?
Unaccounted for.
How do you trust people who operate in shady ways ? Such as the whole Monero crew.
You don't.. unless your a fucking idiot.
Did they ever explain the French Police fraud drama and arrests and Monero Marketing Company that does not exist by not employee's who really are employees ?
Trust ?
I would base that on the ACTIONS of users around here.. not an abused Trust Rating system.
Talk vs actions people.