I just bought an unknown amount

nice I just bought an unknown amount

>you should be using a VPN or TOR or something or it will be easy for 3 letter agencies to identify you
false. IP does not provide any information about the transaction.

it provides that you are using it. only criminals use monero.

monerolink.com/
its pretty fucking easy to find who owns an IP. usually monero users dont keep the wallet open when not using it. so we see when your IP came online. Now we look to your bank account and find wire transfers for around the time you logged into monero wallet. Two match up? cool.

Now we go and look for when that was spent. Hopefully you logged into TOR on another machine and sent it from your real box at a later time. Now we have an evidence trail good enough any court would take it.

>it provides that you are using it. only criminals use monero.

they won't be able to link you with a transaction. Therefore they can't charge you with a crime even if you commit one.

i just proved how they can. they line it up with the withdraw from your bank account.

on the other side buying drugs? tor leaks all the time. maybe they compromise the site too and inject some shit into it.

hackread.com/flaw-in-tor-browser-leads-to-leaking-of-your-real-ip-address/

nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/09/07/dark-web-sites-could-be-exposed-by-routine-slip-up/

>i just proved how they can. they line it up with the withdraw from your bank account.

what do you mean ? If i buy BTC with my bank account and transfer it to lets say Binance, then i purchase XMR & withdraw it to my local wallet then send it from my local wallet to another local wallet. How will they know ??

monero users dont usually keep your wallet open 24/7. so they work backwards. They setup a remote node to gather everyones IP address that uses monero. Now they filter those out to USA entries. Then they just ask ISPs for your user info tied to that IP - which they give out freely.

Now from that they know who you are, where you live, and that you used a monero wallet at a specific time. So now they get your banking records, which the bank will give out easily as you are now using a currency known for money laundering. They now ask for details about withdrawels or deposits via wire transfer to known exchanges. Bingo, matches.

Now they have had dream market compromised for a long time. They inject something that dumps your computers mac address/ip address - just like how they trapped vendors last time with the excel file bug.

so how do we fix this problem ? starting up a VPN before starting your XMR wallet ?

yes. a trusted vpn that doesnt keep logs. openvpn preferred, any ipsec tunnel is ok after

alright i'll keep it in mind next time i use monero. Although i don't use monero for shady stuff just for speculation but i don't want to be confused for a criminal

deepdotweb.com/2018/01/31/leak-shows-us-army-nsa-compromised-tor-i2p-vpns-wants-track-monero/

and they are already doing this.

Give me one (1) actual court case where a monero transaction was linked to illegale activity

>it provides that you are using it. only criminals use monero.
so i'm a criminal when i don't want to show the world my net worth? lol try harder

cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-exchange-shapeshift-helps-police-as-wannacry-attacker-converts-to-monero

how many coins can ever be in circulation is their a limit?

he is asking for:
>Give me one (1) actual court case where a monero transaction was linked to illegale activity
you showed a bitcoin transaction graph w/o a court case.

wannacry author was arrested, fren. wasn't in the USA though.

You don't know how much you bought?

>You don't know how much you bought?
he is refering to: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2037552.0

Inflation hits about 1% in a few years and will be linear thereafter.
>only criminals use monero.
Just give up already, Zcash-kun.
>Now we look to your bank account and find wire transfers for around the time you logged into monero wallet.
You can't be serious. This is circumstantial evidence at best. Not proof.

Ip obfuscation is coming after bulletproofs. Kovri is unstoppable. Don’t get left behind young samurai

They already patched that where they the transactions go through at different times which makes it 80% less likely. Good job on the research tho.

You can't reason with that guy. He's on the Zcash payroll. He might literally be Zooko or maybe Andrew Miller.