Can somebody with the necessary rights (e.g. pigeons) please restart the Mattermost-to-IRC bridge? It fell over yesterday or so. Thanks!

Did anyone else here get a link to monero-badcaca.net from zfwytvlvvpc (PM on chat.freenode.net)?

no, but it's not surprising. They keep spamming this around

yeah, got it. wtf is it?

from what I understand badcaca believes that monero is not as secure

And I looked at the author, they are promoting their own fork of monero, called Ryo

It's a fork of a fork of Monero

actually

Fork of a fork, okay

Monero --> ??? --> Ryo

What was before it?

Fireice has a long history of throwing dirt and hating Monero, disclosing critical bugs before they were fixed etc.

and now actually attacking the network

and who buys porn with monero so he can doxx 100 guys per day?

Monero --> Sumokoin --> Ryo IIRC

Yeah well

and his shitcoin has 25% (or probably more now) devtax

Sure, Monero may have vulnerabilities but I don't think the team is as malicious or incompetent as this FireIce person makes it out to be

I say this without bias, I just found this out

But looking at his social media and motives I can already tell he's kind of sketchy himself.

theres no evidence his findings are correct, he's pointing to someone else's service to do the porn correlation

The porn correlation thing sounds like bullshit

there's evidence his IP addresses are not always correct: reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/jv4liy…n_intercepted_by_so_called_tracking

It's like assuming that the monero network or wallet is caching my browsing habits

I mean, I checked my own IP, it's not there.. Kek

Exaggerating and straight up lying to harm Monero is what he's been doing for years now

Apparently he also accused the monero subreddit of being racist and neo-nazi

Like if you're that kind of person how can I expect you to argue in good faith

even wownero makes fun of them

RYO: We don't need to promote ourselves because we feel that people who truly care about privacy will find us eventually, instead we fund people to attack and harass monero communities

What cows

* ryo-currency.com

RYO: We don't need to promote ourselves because we feel that people who truly care about privacy will find us eventually, instead we fund people to attack and harass monero communities

* ryo-currency.com

RYO: We don't use funds to promote ourselves because we feel that people who truly care about privacy will find us eventually, instead we fund people to attack and harass monero communities

also shit, apologize for my neko blocking some of the text in the screenshot, lmao

anyone else getting spam to private about url monero-badcaca dot net (user zfwytvlvvpc)? "You can now check how many paedophiles thought Monero is private. 100 new IP addresses, transaction details and user's porn preferences published every day. Check if your transaction is on it today."

how is this guy not banned from freenode yet

we had some spam about that yesterday in the channel

lol yeah I was talkin about it just now

artefact: he keeps making new accounts

i wonder if there's a user mode for blocking notices/privmsgs from tor accounts

<shirley_huang[m]> twitter.com/fireice_uk/status/1159908175384109056 <= He got banned from r/monero because he offered funds to people to cause disruption

needmoney90 has a screenshot somewhere

hmmp: yes :D

artefact: You can block non-registered accounts

you can set +R on yourself, but they are all registered :(

yes that's fairly useless against that dEBRUYNE :(

his shitcoin is vulnerable to the same attack, no?

im not sure of his point, other than to seed fud

azy: yes, it's just monero but with a devtax and different pow

and no users to hide among :P

and the obvious monetary benefits means fud/shilling is inevitable

Ah, didn't know they were registered

what is a devtax

lol

I doubt it's still possible to reliably collect that dev tax, with a daily volume of the coin around USD 200, according to CMC

And yes, like hmmp I had that splendid message thrown at me personally here today for the first time

Nothing says "I'm just a researcher not a malicious actor" more than spamming freenode rooms and users -_-

juding by how many likes his tweets get, he should be ignored

I agree about not giving him a stage, but bullshit should be always called out.

never mind the obvious confict of interest

shirley_huang[m]: dev tax is where some of the coinbase reward in a transaction does not go the miner, but to some other adress controlled by the devs or an org behind the coin - like the BCH fork just recently was due to introduction of a tax where some % of the block reward goes to others than miners.

oh wow

does monero have one?

no.

kek

imagine being forced to pay taxes even on crypto

it's somewhat more honest than huge premine, at least

25%+ tax is still pretty big

it's not when your coin is worthless :p

let them believe in their "get rich quick" scheme. it's fairly harmless

and filters out idiots naturally

hmmp, manifest: pm spam?

both from zfwytvlvvpc?

rehrar, ping

yeah

shirley_huang[m]: you too?

Yeah

could you PM me a copy of the spam

ok

i aint gotten no PMs yet, only saw it spammed on -markets

jess: well i invited you

invited me to what

the matrix bridge is very strange

pm

ya i didnt see anything

wtf??

you didn't get it?

I (and other freenode staff) will welcome further reports of PM spam

jess: any other idea what we can do against Tor spam apart from setting all channels to +m?

i did make a recommendation about that to someone today

okay, might have missed that

selsta these things are best discussed in private

sure

What's xmr badcara?

Someone is running lots of nodes to sybil the network.

And of course claims the sky is falling etc.

Im assuming everyone is getting spamed?

when did you get the spam?

About 5-10 mins ago

Roughly

network staff are looking in to it btw

ty

I still don't understand the motive behind the FUD page though lol

jess: Thanks

fwiw, they also spam the channels if/once +m is removed

yeah i've seen that

very sad

AFAICT it's to scare people into using his own fork, which is basically the same, but I suppose he hopes nobody will notice.

Having +m is not ideal, as it reduces participation (people often come in here simply to ask questions)

Also seems to have a fixation on pedos and nazis so I'm not sure we should be expecting a motive really.

hmm

can't tell if i know this fireice guy

the sad part about badcaca is that ppl read about it and think it is a monero only problem...

Yeah the page is just damn weird and ill informed. Sounds mad as hell lol.

Parts of it are made worse by using dandelion - which trades DoS resistance vs privacy.

Few currencues have that. So in that sense it affects monero more. In other senses, less.

I think it's also preying on people's expectation from the bitcoin world that a txid gives access to everything, where with monero it is not the case.

People reported today on Reddit finding their tx on that caca website, but with a wrong IP. Dandelion++ (still) doing its job, at least in part :)

yep thats what i am trying to tell ppl now that even if you could in some way link txid <-> ip (which is really unrealistic) you are not transparent

I don't understand why this person is fear mongering.

There is an obvious motive judging by the tone in there writing.

Its odd

if the guy

is who i think it is

he's a pretty smart guy and could be elluding to something that cannot be mentioned openly

stop giving it attention

then you'll stay away. This is what we need privacy, to avoid nutjobs like this finding us in real life and stalkng us.

I dunno why the intense focous

tho

In other (depressing) news, that fake Android MyMonero app is back in the Play Store for about the 7th time. Excellent job, Google.

<selsta "when did you get the spam?"> I also just got spammed. Sorry, didn't note the ransome username.

*random... Not "ransome".

ok freenode stuff is looking into it

staff

hello

yo

Definitely mooo.

binaryfate: Maybe not working?

no it's cool, we're just having fun

Or maybe a cow is not in the moood

Lol

hello

I am trying to use monerujo but I keep getting error "Node connection failed! Check username/password"

I am wondering if it is due to different versions (maybe related to hard fork/upgrades)

all of the nodes are public (I have tried 10+), so the username/password part of the error message is erroneous

Can you try using node.xmr.to with port 18081?

returns "Node invalid"

lol

for ping tests with the node, I get one of ~65ms and the rest return CONNECTION ERROR

What kind of connection are you on?

I can't even retrieve my private key, monerujo seems to require connection to a node to do so

and I am on home Wi-Fi

I will try with mobile data

Can you check whether mobile data makes a difference?

same error of Node Connection Failed

:(

sucks how I can't even find a way to retrieve my private keyl ol

marxS: do you have your seed words written down?

asymptotically no, but I have the wallet on the app and the accompanying password

that should be sufficient to display seed and private key

but the app seems to force connection to a node to do so

very strange, I created a new wallet in the app and it connects fine to the public nodes, so not really sure where the issue lies

maybe my original wallet has been corrupted or something

kind of sucks, but not the end of the world

marxS check if you can update monerujo, sounds like you might have a wrong versino

binaryFate there's no update available in google play store

and I'm not aware of any apks floating around

strange how everything works fine when creating a new wallet, but original wallet bugs out

I'm sure you tried to close app and reopen again? Just to make sure you run latest one

yeah

and have restarted phone, etc

check on their subreddit maybe

do you know any way to extract private key/seed so I can restore from fresh?

and will check subreddit, thanks

you can extract from somewhere in the app, I don't know/remember the details personally

yeah, the only options in the app require connecting to a node though

which is the issue here lol

I will dig around in phone files and see what I can find

any monerujo devs in here?

I have my .keys file, not sure if there is much I can do with that?

and an .unportable file

wheever you make a wallet write down the mnemonic seed and put it somewhere safe, then write it down again and put it in a different safe location

then do that a third time

yeah

that was my error, but in my defense I am still in possession of the wallet + the wallet password

just the buggy app isn't letting me do anything with it

be careful, monerujo does something silly with the key file that makes backups useless

crazypass

by requiring the master passowrd?

even to view the crazypass you need to connect to a node lol

I don't understand why, should all be stored (or derived) locally

more monero nodes are here if you need more endpoints: monero.fail

that's about all the help I can be :P

yeah , I think I'll give up for a while and hope the next update fixes it

thanks for the help :)

save that seed as soon as you can though, marxS!