We can mobilize tens of thousands of ICE officers to get day laborers, but can’t afford a few hundred detectives to hunt down these eminently findable clearnet site operators.

LegalEagle did a great video about Kash, he’s been grifting near the heart of MAGA doing Trump’s bidding for years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXI3Je4JjjM

Monero is best mined on a Ryzen CPU

actually obtaining it privately.

Seriously have you considered mining it? You mine Monero with CPU, not GPU. The algo is literally designed so that GPUs and ASICs offer no cost advantage.

You can mine in a decentralized, distributed pool with distributed payouts… from the GUI wallet , no less!

Depends on what you mean. We don’t know what % of transactions are BTC vs XMR on darknet marketplaces – at least not on ones that are still operating.

Last I checked, at least one long-standing market was Monero only. None have been Bitcoin-only for years.

The whitepaper was explicit that it was pseudonymous, and implicit that this was “good enough”. Which it was, for “internet currency 1.0”.

It just blows my mind how people assume “crypto = untraceable” when in fact the public ledger is literally the opposite of “untraceable”.

Very few coins make a real serious attempt to cryptographically unlink the public information on the blockchain, from the actual accounts and amounts in the transactions. Of those that do, only one has anything like enough transaction volume to provide the entropy needed to hide in plain sight .

They’re already religious, it’s a short hop from there

Both with a hefty serving of religion

https://dark.fail/

Seriously get with the modern age. Darknet markets have sellers with reviews, and you have so much choice as a consumer.

Anybody who really wants anonymity online – like, to buy drugs and such – is already using Monero.

Just like the advertising model. Pay us with subscription money, or pay us with all the data we can scrape from you.

Especially for a glorified ticketing system and wiki. There are multiple open source options that work just as well… and don’t spy on you. May I suggest BugZilla and TWiki?

You may enjoy this

https://piefed.social/c/mistranslation_porn

Depends on how they are produced

Even just throwing tater tots into the air fryer makes 'em crispy on the outside with zero use of oil. About as healthy as you can eat potatoes and as easy as a microwave. Love it.

Mosquito magnet

Expensive to buy. Expensive and fiddly to run. But boy, does it totally destroy mosquito populations!

Especially if you start it up from the moment of Spring thaw… catch the very first females as they reach reproductive maturity. Breaks the population cycle. Love it.

This. Anyone interested in quantum computing owes it to themselves to watch this Caltech conference keynote:

Quantum Computing: Reality vs. Hype - John Preskill

Exec summary: For QC to “break RSA”, we need 7-8 orders of magnitude more physical qbits than we had in 2019.

Error correction cleverness and better controls have knocked down 3-4 of those. Which is impressive. Now just 1,000x - 100,000x more improvement needed. When you hear a QC advance, remember the questions are

• how many logical qbits? (error correction is a bitch)

• how long to get data into/out of the QC? (actually a major issue)

defending Brave

Instant indication the person has either swallowed a lot of marketing kool-aid, or is a grifter.

I never pass up the opportunity to point out that Brave is basically a scam

• https://twashingtonledger.com/brave-browser-privacy-scandal-goes-right-to-the-heart-of-brave/

• https://eathealthy365.com/brave-browser-s-controversies-downsides-explained/

• https://www.lifewire.com/brave-browser-falls-short-of-its-promises-of-privacy-5206799

You opened my eyes