• God@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I am actually a crypto expert and developer 👀😁 long story short: monero is a secret ledger, it obfuscates everything, impossible to know what you have or do unless you manually show people individual things you have or do to certify.

    And: even if most crypto is pretty much just public, it’s still way more free and much more obfuscated than banks. I for example get salaries in crypto so it’s not traceable back to me until I send the coins from that address to sell them.

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      1 year ago

      So with Monero it’s impossible for a state actor with subpoena power and perhaps access to digital intercepts to untangle a payment?

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        1 year ago

        If you don’t personally allow it with your keys and shit, no, not possible. If they hack you then well that’s not crypto’s fault lol.

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          1 year ago

          There is no trace of the transaction in the exchange? No way of getting a connection between credit card and Monero transactions?

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            1 year ago

            Monero breaks linking by using 15 decoys and one real transaction. So anyone trying to figure your transaction out only has a 1/16 chance and if they go the wrong path they will have 16 other paths to follow. Like a maze, there are tons and tons of dead ends but only one correct way out

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              1 year ago

              Interesting. And how does the system knows who got the real coins? 15 dummy accounts and one real? And can it be backtracked if a dedicated agency in possession of a heavy wrench convinces my arms dealer to give up his keys? Another thing to read up.