[XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency

[phishead]

If you are interested, the Monero Research Lab has published some further whitepapers as well:

https://lab.getmonero.org

I wish more people were aware of MRL. Monero is the only coin that I'm aware of, apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum, that has people consistently performing academic-style research in the background and publishing papers of a certain level (ie not crap). People frequently underestimate the difficulty and the importance of this.

Would be even more sweet if we got them peer reviewed. Yah know, its not impossible to get things published in PLOS.

Afaik there are almost no scholarly publications that accept work from pseudonymous or anonymous authors. Even the blockchain journal started by Peter_R said they wouldn't accept anonymous submissions except under extraordinary circumstances I think.

Well wouldn't Ricardo (fluffypony) be an exception? Or is that name pseudononymous too?

[jwinterm]

It's not, but he didn't write the papers, afaik.

Worth a shot I guess, GingerAle, assuming the authors have any interest in it.

[Hueristic]

It makes one wonder what PLOS does to _verify_ an author's identity.  Do they only accept submissions from people who are already known... or could you fabricate a plausible name and curriculum vitae?
I'm not sure it matters though.  The PLOS publications all seem to concern biology, medical science and the like.  No math-y journals, at least I don't find any.

I think generally you submit from a .edu or .gov email address, or IBM.com email or whatever, and that is a decent verification that you are who you say you are and you work where you say you work.

PLOS One publishes science, period.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/search?q=cryptography&filterJournals=PLoSONE

I think if the email came from a monero domains (specifically, the core-team managed domain getmonero.org), it would be fine. There's nothing in the submission guidelines that suggests otherwise.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/submission-guidelines

Each author on the list must have an affiliation. The affiliation includes department, university, or organizational affiliation and its location, including city, state/province (if applicable), and country.

I think its doable. The formatting of the MRL docs would need to be modified and we'd need to properly cite more things. For instance, the footnote on the final page of MRL1 "[3]See what I did there?" would need to go. In general, the tone of bulletin 1 is a bit colloquial.

Our Scientists are not anon so couldn't Noblesir publish a paper (specifically on his work) and reference (cite) the anon papers? And he peer reviewed those papers correct? I know they have been peer reviewed and thats all it should take I would think.

[Drhiggins]

A friend of mine shared this article with me today.   Since he does security work on networks and the like for a living I always take what he says seriously about hacking.  He has also been a supporter of Monero since I got involved almost two years ago.

https://www.guardicore.com/2016/06/the-photominer-campaign/

[novag]

Monero still very strong coin, and soon perhaps any country in the world can be interested in this coin.

[dEBRUYNE]

A friend of mine shared this article with me today.   Since he does security work on networks and the like for a living I always take what he says seriously about hacking.  He has also been a supporter of Monero since I got involved almost two years ago.

https://www.guardicore.com/2016/06/the-photominer-campaign/

Discussed here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4o1llq/security_researchers_uncover_a_worm_photominer/

&

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/4o1ebq/worm_spreads_via_ftp_and_http_mines_monero/

[phishead]

Shuffling Coins to Protect Privacy and Fungibility: A New Take on Traditional Mixing

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/shuffling-coins-to-protect-privacy-and-fungibility-a-new-take-on-traditional-mixing-1465934826

[c789]

Shuffling Coins to Protect Privacy and Fungibility: A New Take on Traditional Mixing

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/shuffling-coins-to-protect-privacy-and-fungibility-a-new-take-on-traditional-mixing-1465934826

I'm glad to see that this article covered many of the shuffling methods, and that it also rightly concluded that none of them are 100% untraceable.

Guess what is 100% untraceable? And also 100% fungible, private, and decentralized? <3 Monero

[Hueristic]

If I ran that pool I'd be skimming the virus addresses. Lol

[novag]

It seems to me that the Monero in their basic characteristics reminiscent of Bitcoin.

[letsplayagame]

More GUI development activity:

I see more GUI commits:

https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core/commit/3ddd9bed72da0e039f44b64a4cc9fff679dd40ed

[nioc]

More GUI development activity:

I see more GUI commits:

https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core/commit/3ddd9bed72da0e039f44b64a4cc9fff679dd40ed

good2cu 

Looks like a good amount of work from moneromoo and Shen Noether on RingCT.   

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/network

[letsplayagame]

More GUI development activity:

I see more GUI commits:

https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core/commit/3ddd9bed72da0e039f44b64a4cc9fff679dd40ed

good2cu 

Looks like a good amount of work from moneromoo and Shen Noether on RingCT.   

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/network

Thanks. I never really took my eye off of Monero, I just have lacked the time to interact with the community recently.

I was not going to log in today until I noticed the Chesscoin ICO announcement and felt the need to share my (very negative) feelings about it.

[dEBRUYNE]

More GUI development activity:

I see more GUI commits:

https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core/commit/3ddd9bed72da0e039f44b64a4cc9fff679dd40ed

good2cu 

Looks like a good amount of work from moneromoo and Shen Noether on RingCT.   

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/network

This branch is easier to follow in my opinion:

https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/rct-rptest

[ibuyltc]

A friend of mine shared this article with me today.   Since he does security work on networks and the like for a living I always take what he says seriously about hacking.  He has also been a supporter of Monero since I got involved almost two years ago.

https://www.guardicore.com/2016/06/the-photominer-campaign/

Earlier in this thread maybe a year or so ago, there was a few posts by somebody who claimed to be part of a eastern european hacker group that was highly interested in Monero.  (I cant seem to find the post since I cannot remember the name of the group. But i remember them saying that their hacker group was their username)  Id say there is a good chance they are involved with this.

Edit

found the post of interest.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg8381682#msg8381682

This makes it the first exposed botnet/malware utilizing Monero.

[smooth]

A friend of mine shared this article with me today.   Since he does security work on networks and the like for a living I always take what he says seriously about hacking.  He has also been a supporter of Monero since I got involved almost two years ago.

https://www.guardicore.com/2016/06/the-photominer-campaign/

That has been extensively discussed on the Monero subreddit recently: https://reddit.com/r/monero

[thelibertycap]

A friend of mine shared this article with me today.   Since he does security work on networks and the like for a living I always take what he says seriously about hacking.  He has also been a supporter of Monero since I got involved almost two years ago.

https://www.guardicore.com/2016/06/the-photominer-campaign/

This is a good thing. Hopefully more botnet operators notice this and help increase network security - more hashrate together with more competition.

[luigi1111]

Looks like Mr. Lloydimiller4 is gonna get a second 1,000 XMR gold coin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1502918.msg15231340#msg15231340

[anton-adm]

Hello. There is coming announcements or news? On poloniex growing glass for purchase on what is going on waiting for who knows?

[novag]

Hello. There is coming announcements or news? On poloniex growing glass for purchase on what is going on waiting for who knows?

I believe that now is Bitcoin correction and at this moment Moenero should not miss the chance and say to myself, very powerful!