Wildly? No. Lot of uninformed takes on this thread. It really did find zillions of serious vulnerabilities that nobody found before.

That doesn’t mean no human could find them. But no human did

He wrote the most amazing cop-killing, pro-Jesus erotic porn: “Billy’s Reward”

Looks like he’s scrubbed it from everywhere including the Internet Archive. Left with what he says is a child safe version

http://billyslegacy.tomalciere.com/contents.html

Trust me on this one

https://tomalciere.us/

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

More correct to say that Fediverse upvote/downvotes are public.
Whereas on corporate platforms, they are private only to you, the platform, its thousands of ad affiliates, and the government.

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?

Per Wikipedia, emphasis mine:

toxicology has been intensively examined. “The inertness of silicones toward warmblooded animals has been demonstrated in a number of tests.” With an LD50 in rats of >50 g/kg, they are virtually nontoxic. Questions remain however about chronic toxicity or the consequences of bioaccumulation since siloxanes can be long-lived.