475 sats \ 9 replies \ @Spartan 12 Aug 2022 \ on: BREAKING: Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash bitcoin
We are entering into a highly adversarial environment. Learn the various tools, practice using them.
Run your own node over tor. The time for fucking around is over.
I run my own node over TOR and I2P. What else? Whirlpool could get shut down, so joinmarket and two-person coinjoins.
If I was Vitalik I would pull the plug on the merge given this news.
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i don't think whirlpool will be able to stand up against a state attack as most use it with doxxed xpubs
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Agreed... having anonymity set of 1000 doesn't help you if someone has enough resources to interrogate 999 people.
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Yeah, or issue those dragnet surveillance court orders that can easily target 999 people at once. But I think the whirlpool anonset is larger than 1000, and how does mixing multiple rounds affect it?
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One round is at most x5, so 2 rounds are 25, 3 rounds 125, 4 round 625...
(it's a bit more complicated and the details of the transactions matter, some people will send multiple utxos, some people will mess up after, etc)
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Yeah there are x5 outputs in a mix, but there are also 5 inputs. At least 3 inputs, but up to 4, are premix and at least 1, but up to 2 are remixers. So I don't think it's as simple as your math.
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This tool looks useful https://code.samourai.io/whirlpool/whirlpool_stats
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Why given this news?
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Once ETH moves to PoS, who ever controls the Ethereum foundation controls Ethereum blockchain.
The Gov/left can take over Ethereum foundation just like what they did to Linus of Linux foundation and RMS of FSF.
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