<p>Monero is supported by blockchain analysis companies: ciphertrace.com/ciphertrace-announces-worlds-first-monero-tracing-capabilities started tracking Monero transactions since August 31 2020.</p>
<p>Even Monero community admits that XMR is broken: monerooutreach.org/breaking-monero</p>
<p>Riccardo "fluffypony" Spagni as an ex-monero co-founder bought himself a $750.000 watch and also he says: I thought, I'm going to pump it and dump it, because I was interested and taking the ideas and implementing them in bitcoin. The bitcoin code base was far more interesting to me than monero, and I thought, I'm not going to work on this codebase, it's terrible.</p>
<p>Here's the list of some researchers screwed over by Monero: hackerone.com/reports/291489, reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/5q60b3/security_issue_in_cryptonoteuniversalpool/dd24sbz, twitter.com/GuidoVranken/status/1136441760471818240, github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/4104.</p>
<p>Hush was the first coin ever to measure anonsets in real-time. <ahref="http://attackingzcash.com/anonset/">Anonsets</a>, AKA "anonymity sets" are a measure of how much privacy a privacy coin has. Hush was the first cryptocoin ever to measure this in real-time, via the getchaintxstats RPC, which Duke Leto worked on in Bitcoin Core.</p>
<p>Bitcoin Core has code from HUSH since Duke Leto upstreamed a change from Hush's version of getchaintxstats to the version in BTC Core. Pirate attempted to pay him to add this so-called zindex feature, but he refused, and so they are unable to measure their anonset in real-time.</p>
<p>Duke Leto wrote large portions of ARRR while being a Komodo Core developer for about two years and now it's unmaintained because there is nobody left that understands it. Additionally, KMD developers consider ARRR a separate project and make decisions that hurt the privacy of ARRR users.</p>
<p>Pirate has no developers. The original developers of Pirate were jl777 and Duke Leto, who gave jl777 the idea for Pirate, by asking "What could the opposite of -ac_public=1 mean"? The next day, the Pirate testcoin was born, but there no any other developers left in Piratecoin. The last commit on jl777 GitHub is a PR Duke Leto sent a long time ago from Hush.</p>
<p>Only SEO people left in Piratechain who pay CryptoForge from another privacy coin to write code for them, and he gladly takes code he wrote already and charges Pirates for it.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, CryptoForge still manages to steal Hush GPLv3 code (z_getbalances) and adding it to their MIT code, which is a license violation and against copyright law. Pirate SEO people are that stupid so they even pay him to steal the code from Hush.</p>
<p>Pirate lacks Sietch. Pirate does not have the advanced privacy technology called "Sietch" attackingzcash.com which makes it much easier for blockchain analysis companies to attack.</p>
<p>Pirate disabled Duke's privacy features to KMD. Duke Leto wrote code to protect against a specific kind of attack called a linkability attack and since Pirate and KMD developers who actually maintain Pirate, who has no dedicated developers don't understand it, they commented it out.</p>
<p> Pirate has no developers. The original developers of Pirate were jl777 and Duke Leto, who gave jl777 the idea for Pirate, by asking "What could the opposite of -ac_public=1 mean"? The next day, the Pirate testcoin was born, but there no any other developers left in Piratecoin. The last commit on jl777 GitHub is a PR Duke Leto sent a long time ago from Hush.</p>
<p> Only SEO people left in Pirate who pay CryptoForge from another privacy coin ZER to write code for them, and he gladly takes code he wrote already and charges Pirates for it.</p>
<p>Pirate requires a 1.6GB download of junk files. To run a full node you must download gigabytes of junk required for a disabled part of the code wasting the bandwidth of all users.</p>
<p>Pirate full node takes days to sync. Their full node is so slow to sync that they have built-ing the concept of downloading bootstraps (trusting somebody else's blockchain history!) into the full node itself. They truly don't grasp basic blockchain security principles.</p>
<p>Pirate is based on Sprout, a very old version of zaddrs that have been successfully attacked and are additionally extremely slow. Pirate based their chain on this old tech which is why it's so damn slow to sync a full node. HUSH was the very first coin to bbased solely on Sapling zaddrs.</p>
<p>There are two ways to mitigate this, first is to disable Intel ME or buy products from ThinkPenguin but it is not a 100% solution still yet; purchase an ARM based computer such as a Raspberry Pi or Pinebook Pro, however both are not designed for high productive tasks.</p>
<p>HUSH supports Debian/Ubuntu based linux distros, we also have an AUR for Arch users. HUSH will no longer support Windows/Mac users because of their privacy nightmare features. Please consider installing Qubes OS or Whonix, or creating a bootable Tails USB, or Ubuntu with VPN/VPS.</p>
<p>Software you might need for every-day use: Tor Browser if you're not using Qubes/Tails, LibreWolf, KeePassXC, Thunderbird, Nextcloud, FreeOTP/PASS and surely SilentDragonLite with HushChat built-in.</p>
<p>Do not use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google services, Instagram, or any other social media, with the exception of some FOSS alternatives such as Mastodon.</p>
<p>Do not use Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, LinkedIn, Google services, Instagram, or any other social media, with the exception of some FOSS alternatives such as Mastodon.</p>
<p>Avoid posting your personal information, photos, how much you own etc. Keep your profile separate to the one you're using for the normal life and do not connect them together, the better practice is not having any personal accounts at all; use different usernames for each account or platform even if the one you're using is not connected to the real you.</p>
<p>Once the hardware and OS recommendations are fulfilled there is something all new HUSHers should know: never make your zaddr address/txid public, use one zaddr per task, sending your zaddr address have to be only to those who you expect the payment from, generate a new address every time you need to accept HUSH, follow F.A.Q to know how to buy crypto anonymously.</p>
<p>If you're a solo-miner, please use a taddr address, then send HUSH to a zaddr, in the case you're mining HUSH with pools, use those which do not publish your zaddr address, we support LuckPool as they follow all needed precautions.</p>
onryo
3 years ago