Extortion is the new exit scam. The #1 darknet drug market took all of its users' money days ago. Now its admin Pharoah is demanding that each seller pay a ransom or he will turn their data over to the police. We'll see how this plays out for him.

Silk Road's admin Defcon has apparently been helping the FBI for years #FreeRoss nytimes.com/2024/07/24/bus…

Should I start caring about Tor again?

Will Trump really free Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht on the first day of his second term?

YES! SO MUCH YES! This is WONDERFUL! Congratulations Ross! Welcome back to your life! You did twice as much time as I did for SR, but you did it facing a black hole of hopelessness. Yet you never lost hope. You're a beacon, Ross! Here's to your future!

FREEDOM!!!!

Ross Ulbricht pardoned!!!! I never thought I'd live to see this day. So happy for you Free_Ross!!! Ross Ulbricht your community is here for you for every step of reintegrating. SO HAPPY. Viva DPR, Viva Bitcoin!

Every fed is trying to break Monero. By centralizing around only one privacy coin, at-risk communities make their deanonymization easier.

Rumours of Thorchain's death are greatly exaggerated. They are resilient af. Decentralized paths for no-KYC Bitcoin are critical for the human right to privacy.

OPSEC legend... he's been married this whole time!? 🤣

Zcash won the DEX arms race. It is now on 2 DEX's with >1 million USD liquidity: Maya Protocol and NEAR Protocol. Monero still has no DEX, minimal liquidity on atomic swaps, and has every LE crosshair in the world aimed at compromising it. I have lost faith in XMR.

wen Monero? Maya Protocol THORChain CHAINFLIP LABS

All activists should obsess over darknet arrests, criminal complaints. Mass surveillance tech is practiced against Tor crypto users, to be perfected against anyone who chooses to have a voice in the future. Learn from others' mistakes, study darknet prosecutions.

Monero had a six block re-organization today that looked deliberate, possibly due to a selfish mining strategy by Qubic Mining. There is no evidence of a double spend attack. Get out there and mine more Monero. #Decentralize

Experts: How would you detect a double-spend attack on Monero given the privacy of its transactions? And how would you construct one? (context - Monero experienced what looked like a 51% attack today but was more likely a selfish mining strategy)