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Nostr works via multiple different relays, which makes it way more decentralized than a federated system. This explains it pretty well: https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/natures-many-attempts-to-evolve-a
Never heard of clockswap before, beware of phishing.
Re-uploading should fix it, i really didn't have the time to look into this too much :/
Be advised, openmonero has been "hacked" before and users lost funds held in the sites escrow. I highly recommend to use the decentralized Retoswap over this.
Yeah, this was not very useful so it's shut down.
It's not too many as it's just in the overall instance sidebar and pretty hidden but it has probably already paid for a domain renewal :)
I might need help with the tor config after the upcoming server migration. I should be able to handle exporting and importing the database & this time I'll be using ansible for the install instead of a manual docker config.
The server is getting migrated soon, i did not really know what i was doing when i initially set this up.
It's not really but the paper suggested some improvements that would make the transactions waaaay harder to link to a trade. Definitely a net-positive for privacy.
No, the transaction tracing relies on the transparent bitcoin chain. It does not work for the off-chain payment methods and especially not for something super private like cash by mail.
For the last couple of days we were offline due to a DDoS attack originating from Tor.
We are now behind cloudflare (💀) but at least we are online.
We might switch to a different CDN in the future.
Monero turns 10 today! 🥳
For some reason posts on our instance have recently gotten more downvotes from outside instances than usual and many posts look like this:
I personally don't like the idea of disabling downvotes but if the feature is mostly going to be used by outside users because crypto is "le bad" we might as well turn it off.
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I never loved the idea of hosting everything on one server, even in a federated system. I had asked on matrix before if anyone would want to but there was nobody willing to pick up hosting the instance. I don't want all of this to depend on me and people to lose touch because I am unavailable. For now we will keep the instance up and running, at least till we find a suitable replacement software that is more decentralized.