PostDoc researcher, AI and combinatorial optimization.
8-years BTC & XMR entrepreneur.
Disclaimer: I own some BTC & XMR.
Privacy is paramount to a free future.
Note that no devices were taken from him, not his phone, laptop, nothing. So the actions taken by the rest of the Monero core team are just to be really extra cautious.
Finally I got in touch today and Riccardo wants to assure everyone he's doing ok.
In case it isn't clear, the sole reason to remove potentially critical access is because he could be pressured while in custody. It has nothing to do with him being guilty or innocent or what we think about it.
I'm looking forward to reinstituting them soon.
I see it as a likely temporary measure.
Anyway, In the mean time I'll make myself accountable for tightening any security issue stemming from the current situation.
's being offline and in custody, the Monero core team has removed all his admin and write permissions over Monero repos.
I've also just moved the 5577 XMR from the General Fund to another wallet he has no access to.
Several large exchanges reached out in the past, having issues for instance when re-creating spend or view wallets from seeds. Always cleared up and solved after a short conversation.
Even if view key of donation address is public, that slipped mostly unnoticed: on 18th of April, day of #Monero 7th anniversary, someone anonymously donated 1020 #XMR (including 420 XMR single output) to general fund.
Anonymous, stealth, close to half a million$.
Punk af.
The Monero Policy Working Group (MPWG) submitted a response to the recent FATF proposed changes. We largely believe that the changes will cause confusion and disparities among jurisdictions while supporting a "blank check" of sorts to define VASP actives
https://moneropolicy.org/assets/pdfs/MPWG_Response_to_FATF_Guidance.pdf…
para hablar sobre el policy workgroup, su reciente propuesta para gestión de tarifas en Monero con el Research Lab (MRL-70), escalabilidad y mucho más. Escúchalo acá: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4k-Sr-sULh8…
Patrocinan:
Recibimos a Francisco "ArticMine" Cabañas para ahondar un poco sobre el policy workgroup, su reciente propuesta para gestión de tarifas en Monero con el Rese...
#Monero Policy Working Group* - response to European Commission consultation on the Market in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation.
[*A loose quorum of volunteers. Anyone interested in political and regulatory activism welcome, IRC/freenode monero-policy]
LOL
Anyone with a basic subscription to any chain analytic company can check that. That is pretty much every single crypto business nowadays.
Most crypto users have zero clue how easily coins are flagged on transparent chains. Baffling. https://twitter.com/Marty_P_B/status/1366737812083658756…
Your regular reminder that a privacy-oriented service (ex: VPN) that only accepts BTC but not #XMR should be considered a honeypot. Or at best with the benefit of the doubt, lazy and incompetent.
When most people first hear about #Monero, they will assume it's a shitcoin to be honest. A scam like the rest.
But they will soon find, after only a tiny bit of searching, that Monero is completely unlike everything else.
And once they learn that, they will respect #XMR.
An unusual Monero initiative is organized and funded by some Monero volunteers: #Tesla4XMR.
Significant outcry unfolds on reddit and elsewhere, demonstrating highly uncompromising community.
Point made. #5DChessMonero