GrapheneOS just released the much anticipated Duress PIN feature!
You can now set a special "duress" PIN, so instead of unlocking the phone, it just immediately wipes the encryption keys in the secure element, making the storage data unrecoverable.
Ahead of the game as always
GrapheneOS version 2024053100 released:
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.
Forum discussion thread:
#GrapheneOS
#privacy
#security
This really is interesting to see.
BTC down 16%, everything else down 20%, XMR only down 6%, and up 12.5% against BTC.
Monero really has started to become more detached from the general crypto market movements. It still follows to a degree but not nearly as much.
GrapheneOS just released the much anticipated Duress PIN feature!
You can now set a special "duress" PIN, so instead of unlocking the phone, it just immediately wipes the encryption keys in the secure element, making the storage data unrecoverable.
Ahead of the game as always
To my great disappointment, this is true even on the Linux version. As you can see there is the encryption key stored in the config.json
Common
@signalapp
! What are you doing!? OS keystores exist for a reason ya know 😠
TL;DR: Don't install
@signalapp
for macOS, it is not secure.
I carried out this small experiment:
- I wrote a simple Python script that copies the directory of Signal's local storage to another location (to mimic a malicious script or app)
- I ran the script in the Terminal and
The charges against Pavel are absolutely insane.
3 of them are for "unlicensed cryptology".
Apparently privacy in France is illegal without a license.
This is terrifying.
The Department of "Justice" has once again criminalized the developers of an app that restores financial privacy. The way to fix this it to make money private by default. Privacy must never be "exceptional," or they will make it criminal.
yo
@ProtonPrivacy
Bitcoin transactions currently cost an average of $28 US dollars per transaction.
If you care about crypto payments, you need to accept other coins that allow you to transact without unaffordable fees.
If you really care about privacy, you should accept Monero.
Monero's privacy is about to get SO much better.
The sender privacy improvements from FCMP are insane
It was already quite good, but FCMP takes it to whole other level, and will remove the one main weakness Monero has had for a long time, which is ring signatures.
We're excited to share that a pull request has been made for the Full-Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP++) integration into Monero!
The pull request is a work-in-progress and will be improved upon and reviewed to ensure soundness of the implementation.
I want to pay for something with Bitcoin since they don't accept Monero... But common.... These fees are insane.
I'm better off using Cake Pay to get a pre-paid debit card at this point, it's ridiculous.
Looks like somebody is now spamming (or testing) Monero with hundreds of extremely large transactions (100KB, 149 inputs) instead of thousands of small ones. This one block has several 100kb transactions, and all the next waiting blocks have the same pattern
This is why I'm excited for one of GrapheneOS's next big features, which is App Communication Scopes. This will allow you to prevent apps from performing IPC (inter-process communication) with each other as well as (IIRC) knowing that other apps even exist, in the same profile!
Apps on your phone can see which other apps you have installed. Apps also often talk to each other without you realizing. To stop this, silo apps on separate profiles.
Here's how it works & the benefits of secondary profiles.
🎉🥳 It's
#Monero
's 10th Birthday!
Only been in the community for a couple years but thankful to see it's development and growth from all the incredible people involved!
Cheers to all the amazing Monero people 🍾
I am running a public Monero node again, gotta do my part.
This time it's a FULL node and I'm offering SSL support and an onion address.
(SSL)
Onion URL listed on website.
It's fast now but we'll see how long that lasts 🥲
Well, this is extremely disappointing.
Skiff is "joining" Notion.
Notion clearly just acquired them and is subsequently shutting down their entire product line.
What an insane waste of product development, for something that was really good and had huge potential.
Skiff is joining
@NotionHQ
🎉
We're excited to accelerate Skiff's mission by joining Notion. The world needs tools that empower people and put their interests first.
We're in a better position than ever to deliver this change.
Read more on👇
Withdrawals suspended during the final hours.... Comical, but unsurprising. This is why the Monero community is glad to see XMR get delisted. The "liquidity" some people claim it provided has been very fractionally reserved, while suspending withdrawals up to days at a time.
Binance will delist
#Monero
in less than 12 hours.
@binance
also has Monero withdrawals halted for the past several hours citing "low hot wallet balance"
Why would they not have ALL of their XMR in hot wallet knowing their delisting schedule?
Manipulation til the last minute.
Predictable outcome.... becomes reality?
It's almost like slashing the security budget in half has consequences.....
You think this is bad, just wait until there's NO security budget.
yo
@ProtonPrivacy
Bitcoin transactions currently cost an average of $28 US dollars per transaction.
If you care about crypto payments, you need to accept other coins that allow you to transact without unaffordable fees.
If you really care about privacy, you should accept Monero.
So... it's literally just a block explorer.... with a few extra buttons? (Second screenshot is )
Calling it a tool for "tracing Monero" is somewhat misleading, considering the only thing going on here is a a button to manually eliminate decoys.
Everyone talking about this AT&T outage... funny. I use Wifi 99% of the time on my phone, but when I'm out, I use a
@silentlink1
eSIM paid for with XMR, which includes global roaming by default, so all carriers, are my carriers 😎
Within the Monero community, we don't care as much about Number go up..... but you will with certainty get Freedom go up, and Privacy go up, to over 100 million 💯
It is indeed a sad day. Regardless of the drama between the Samourai and Monero community, both communities (for the most part) are working towards a similar goal... financial freedom through privacy tech.
It does look like the gov is bending existing regulation to now mean
Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin privacy service, has been shut down and its founders arrested! 😱
A Bitcoin-only noncustodial CoinJoin service, Samourai gave users privacy by allowing them to coordinate with other users to mix their funds to break the transaction graph.
To the best
BREAKING: IRS official Alex Mena who works in “Criminal Investigations” says
@IRSNews
, ‘has no problem going after the small people, putting people in prison, and destroying people’s lives.’
Mena ‘doubts the constitutionality’ of his employer, the IRS, using AI to access
Anyone who immediately jumped to post "Elon suspended
@ukgov
account for threatening to arrest people for memes!!!" without taking TWO SECONDS to check if it was the real one (
@GOVUK
) need their twitter accounts taken away.
Hey
@elonmusk
, it seems the
@ProtonWallet
account was suspended on accident. Would appreciate if it somebody could have a look into it. The account did get a lot of followers in a short period of time, but that's because it's a new product:
Telegram has full access to all of the content of group chats and regular one-to-one chats due to lack of end-to-end encryption. Their opt-in secret chats use homegrown end-to-end encryption with weaknesses. Deleting the content from the app likely won't remove all copies of it.
🎂 Cake Wallet 4.14.0 and 1.11.0 have been released!
📝Changes:
- Add Solana wallet
- New themes
- UI Enhancements
- Bug fixes
Now Available on the App Store, Play Store, and F-Droid!
Pretty distraught to see
@WatchmanPrivacy
block me after doing an entire podcast episode with me, then refusing to release it because of "concerns about Cake Wallet", yet he won't give hardly any info about these concerns, which I have expressed interest in dealing with.
AFAIK, Kraken is the last major CEX in the US and one of the last few in the world that allows you to straight up buy XMR.
Full KYC'd but that's thanks to the cringe regulatory/AML/KYC requirements.
Glad to see them standing up for privacy coins, tho it's not even illegal (yet).
Wow! It's finally here.
Plus, major under-the-hood improvements to Monero which should improve syncing, performance, and overall stability thanks to
@mrcyjanex
's Monero Dart wrapper
Much wow...Cake Wallet v4.19.0 is live! Devs working on big things and more big things are coming 🤩
- Monero enhancements
- Add Wownero wallet
- Improvements for Tron and Nano wallets
- Bug fixes
This is quite unprecedented. Is this an attempt at an attack? Never before seen amounts of pending TXs in the mempool.
There is now a "Low Fee Line" for Monero.
Block size is continuing to grow but slowly since fees haven't gone up much to compensate for a large reward penalty
Crazy to see
#Monero
usage take over in real time at
@silentlink1
,
@shopinbit
, and
@CoinCards
It can continue to change month to month (XMR and BTC fighting for
#1
) but the general trend has been in favor of Monero long term.
The market has spoken, and people want privacy.
So, a couple more things on this:
The frustration here is that Signal is giving an illusion of security by encrypting the chat database then basically dropping the key next to it.
Yes, if your filesystem can be accessed by somebody else you have more things to worry about, but
To my great disappointment, this is true even on the Linux version. As you can see there is the encryption key stored in the config.json
Common
@signalapp
! What are you doing!? OS keystores exist for a reason ya know 😠
.
@SimpleXChat
really is the best for privacy and security, AND doesn't even require a phone number or email.
Even Signal, while being much more polished, requires a phone number.
Phone number requirements are evil and needs to be abolished. I'm looking at you
@signalapp
Telegram just banned my account.
Apparently my phone number was banned.
If you need to reach out to me please use the alternative methods on my site, Signal and SimpleX preferred
Love to see it!
is cool to watch. Something satisfying seeing so many cheap and private transactions being processed.
We are all speculating about the current influx of transactions, but nobody can know for sure!
Who's going to MoneroTopia!?!?
I will be attending
@monerotopia
and doing a "DeGoogle Your Phone" workshop primarily showing off using
@GrapheneOS
, with its privacy/security features and how to install!
Get your tickets at !
Goodbye Mexico City!
#Monerotopia2023
was amazing, glad to meet so many of you!
Thanks to all who came to my workshops.
To those I didn't get to meet, hopefully I'll get to meet you next year!
Cake Pay is one of the easiest ways to utilize
#crypto
at some of your favorite stores 🛍️🛒
In March we had over 80% of gift cards purchased with
#XMR
, over 10% in
#BTC
and 5% in
@TrocadorApp
swaps 🕵️
Check out all the gift cards available on Cake Pay:
At least this time,
Cake Nodes are beefed up like crazy thanks to
@tannerdsilva
And wallet fee bug is fixed. So bring it on.
Glad there are plans of bringing FCMP sooner thanks to
@kayabaNerve
's dedication.
If a shitcoin means something that's cheap, usable, private, and solves the purpose of being a good p2p transaction method (Like Monero) then I'm proud to be a shitcoiner 😎
Only took
@Uber
a few days to sell my email address.
Created a new Uber account on a new email address alias, only used for that. 15 days later I'm already getting spam on that address.
Use alias services to protect your main address. Personally can recommend
@addy_io
I just had to check for myself, and wow! This is new.
It's truly over for Zcash.
No wonder their community is on life support, when their big guy is out here just blocking everyone. (I've never interacted with him)
I love using Monero, it always surprises me how fast it sends and confirms.
Transactions are received in an instant, is perfect for in-store sales like Coffee where there isn't a real need for confirmations... but if a large transaction needs it, its still super fast.
FinneyForum is officially over!
Was such a great conference, really appreciate
@RagnarLif
for putting it on, loved connecting with the Cake team, and wonderful talking to all of you guys that I met there!
If you want to use a good browser that isn't just one of the hundreds of versions of Chromium, LibreWolf (a custom version of Firefox) is the way to go. Been using it for years now. This surprises people but stock Firefox isn't great for privacy
LibreWolf is a custom version of Firefox designed to increase protection against tracking & fingerprinting techniques. Main Features include :
✅ No telemetry
✅ Private Search
✅ Built in Content Blocker
✅ Hardened privacy
✅ Fast Updates
✅ Open Source
MoneroKon was awesome. Prague is such a beautiful city, easily 10/10.
Met so many great people and had great conversations. Monero community is the best 💯
Thanks to all who joined my workshop, it was a pleasure
I'm looking to onboard local shop to Monero for in-store transactions, what resources/software would anyone recommend the most?
Honestly was just going to setup Cake Wallet, as you can easily create a QR code "invoice", but maybe there's a better software for a business?
Instead of just protesting the
#Reddit
API by temporarily shutting down a subreddit, everyone should be protesting Reddit entirely by moving to a different platform. Reddit is not FOSS, is centralized, does a lot of censorship and sketchy practices, including privacy concerns.
#monero
is a terrorist coin. Avoid it at all costs! We will ban it soon. If you are an honest person, you have nothing to hide. Use
#bitcoin
, stack sats and get rich.
Yes, it's true! The team at Cake now uses
@ProtonPrivacy
Migration was easy on the Proton side for all our users. Ironically the hardest part was running into some weird bugs on the Microsoft Entra/Azure side with admin app approval that I spent hours troubleshooting.
Not
This is your punishment Proton, for wasting time on a stupid Bitcoin wallet nobody wanted, instead of actually making your products usable on all platforms.
PayPal? More like PayThief!
When is PayPal ever NOT the bad guy?
I've had countless issues with them over the years
Donate to the GrapheneOS project with
#Monero
instead!
Unfortunately, PayPal permanently locked our GrapheneOS Foundation account today. No reason has been provided for the account being locked. All we've done is accept donations. We added our bank account information yesterday in order to begin withdrawing money and it was locked.
The fact that the stock exchange can halt trading due to real demand is such bullshit. Trad FIAT markets are so controlled. Crypto price is also controlled to an extent don't get me wrong (Especially BTC), but at least limits on demand can't be placed by just halting trading in
This is awesome! Skiff now has PGP support in the client, and it can auto-retrieve PGP addresses via WKD (Which Proton uses)! So auto E2EE via PGP with Proton from Skiff, and vice versa! Skiff making moves.
Full PGP support in Skiff: Now released
Starting today, use PGP to send end-to-end encrypted emails across providers 🔒
PGP in Skiff is easy to use - automatically create keys, import keys, and resolve keys for external users
@nvk
As if privacy is Monero's only reason to exist. Half cent fees. Tail emission. Dynamic blocksizes. On top of that, bitcoin privacy will never be as good as Monero. lmfao
This is awesome! A private *collaborative* document editor? Yes please! Especially since we just switched to Proton at Cake 🤠
Proton is slowly becoming a viable competitor to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. It's still got a ways to go but glad to see such a big milestone.
Say hi to Docs: end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editing in Proton Drive
✍️ Create, edit, and share documents securely
🤝 Collaborate in real-time with live cursors, presence indicators, and comments
↕️ Import/export with ease
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CakePay is super awesome. Especially for newbies, I show them they can buy gift cards with
#Monero
and it makes them feel more comfortable with having some $XMR, knowing that they can buy these cards at any time if they need to.
Glad to see there are more popular options!
It's getting easier to live off Crypto! Cakepay Mobile *USA just added a number of new gift card options to purchase with
#crypto
XMR, BTC, & LTC including;
(% discounts)
CVS 1%
Uber 1%
Airbnb 1%
Instacart 1%
Try in the app now! Piece of cake.
👉️
🚨 Are you involved in a Monero, privacy, or freedom project, and want to talk about it?
We need a guest for the
@monerotopia
show tomorrow!
Would be about a 20-30 minute conversation, stream is at 11AM EDT, guest segment usually around 11:45-12.
They heard! Let's see what happens.
I know people are saying they already should be accepting Monero, but companies need to know there is a market before spending time to integrate it, since a lot of payment gateways don't take Monero and Proton has an in-house gateway AFAIK.