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Quote from: examplens on Today at 07:52:10 PM

The porn industry also balances on the edge between legal and illegal and is very present on the dark web.

The “mainstream” porn industry has zero presence on the “dark web”.

Yes, but we also don't have a problem with mainstream crypto services here, they haven't been present as a priority on Bitcointalk for a long time.
The forum will be and is more interesting to anonymous and unlicensed porn distributors, which, by analogy, is equal to mixers and no-kyc services, rather than mainstream CEX.
It's the same thing with the dark web.
I emphasise this, because the mixer ban on this forum is the final product of the administrator's decision to draw a line between this forum and the dark web space.

Your argument is laced with assumptions about the porn industry, which are not supported by the facts. Ironically, the faulty assumptions about the porn industry show my point about the future prospects for no-KYC; indeed, you even draw a stigmatizing division between “mixers and no-kyc services” and (impliedly legitimated) CEX.

However, discussion of porn in itself is off-topic in the discussion of the mixer ban; I only raised porn as an analogy to the stigmatization of no-KYC. If you want to discuss this further, please either make a new thread and PM me a link to be sure I don’t miss it, or PM and ask me to create a new thread (which may not be immediate, as I need to complete other things).

Quote from: SageSwap on Today at 07:32:02 PM

If our system detects a high AML score on a transaction in Standard Mode, it may automatically redirect it to NO AML Mode.

I saw earlier that some exchangers say they have this option, but I didn't notice it in the actual functionality. This will be an interesting challenge to test. (I need to get some tainted coins Cheesy

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What methodology will you use to calculate the AML score? Some external well-known tool or something custom-made by you?

Custom, but we can use an external one if necessary. Especially if the user disagrees with the score result

Quote from: joker_josue on Today at 04:03:41 PM

But Bitcoin has always had privacy from the start. It all depends on how the user uses it.

For on-chain “privacy”, Bitcoin offers you a substantial choice of:

CoinJoin, which AML-taints your coins, which is for “power users” only, which wastes transaction fees, which constrains you to the UTXO amounts of your join partners, which has so many footguns that I doubt many people really use it properly in practice, and which in the best case can offer only mediocre privacy.
Centralized mixers, which AML-taint your coins, which are trust-based—and which are now banned from advertising on this forum, so that only advanced users even know where to find them.

Quote from: joker_josue on Today at 04:03:41 PM

If it [Bitcoin] didn't have privacy, criminals and hackers wouldn't use it.

Many criminals and hackers got caught by blockchain analytics, even those who have high expertise. Often, they get caught by a mistake made after years of getting away with it—e.g., this forum’s own Loaded, a hacker who stole money from a drug dealer. I could give many other examples.

Now, please don’t shrug that off as, “Eh, it’s good that ‘criminals’ get caught.” Think of this objectively: If smart people whose personal safety and survival depends on Bitcoin privacy can’t get it right, don’t fool yourself that you can.

Quote from: joker_josue on Today at 04:03:41 PM

That's why you say ransomware is only possible thanks to Bitcoin.

And then, they need high-cost, high-risk money laundering. I said it’s possible.

In this context, I should also point out that privacy is necessary to stop criminals just as much as criminals themselves need privacy.

N.b., I am not saying anything new for me. Here are some of my earliest “Newbie” rank posts on the Bitcoin Forum; I started with this almost immediately after my first post on December 1, 2017:

Quote from: nullius on December 05, 2017, 09:00:35 PM

Bitcoin was never anonymous. Anybody who said it is, was stupid or lying.

Quote from: nullius on December 05, 2017, 09:08:16 PM

Quote from: namjar on December 05, 2017, 08:57:42 PM

Bitcoin is anonymous,

[...]

Bitcoin has been created to be anonymous,

STOP MISLEADING PEOPLE. Bitcoin was never anonymous, not designed to be, and never imagined to be by anybody who understands the simple concept of a global public ledger.

Quote from: nullius on December 05, 2017, 10:45:18 PM

In the Twitter/TL;DR world, so few people actually read nowadays. Who needs it? Let’s see a picture of how pretty a Bitcoin transaction graph is!

[...]

Quote from: shursight on December 05, 2017, 09:48:16 PM

It is nice to see a Newbie's fight! Lmao

I may perhaps consider your opinion and explain to you why you’re wrong, if you could explain to me how many “newbies” have longstanding familiarity with the academic literature on Bitcoin transaction tracing.

Some of my earliest merits—sent by people who remembered this post and returned to it, after the merit system was created on January 24, 2018:

Quote from: nullius on December 06, 2017, 04:36:54 AM

Merited by johhnyUA (1), marlboroza (1)

Quote from: no0dlepunk on December 06, 2017, 02:45:26 AM

I guess they could identify you only once you cashed out. Other than that, your identity is safe (unless you have verified your identify in an online wallet, of course);

WRONG. For but one of a hundred other ways your identities could be linked, even if you mix with CoinJoin, check out this pretty picture from a research paper I referenced in my earlier post on this thread:

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Stop giving dangerously bad advice!

The only way I’m changing my tune here is to stop talking out of both sides of my mouth to make excuses for Bitcoin.

BTC has no long-term value. If I can go to sleep in a world where mixers are normal and I don’t know how to do an “AML check”, wake up four years later, and discover that mixer ads are banned and “AML checkers” are a Bitcoin user skill, then the long-term hold value of a Bitcoin UTXO in my wallet is zero to me: For I have no guarantee that I’ll be able to use it in the future—not at all, let alone to get the same price for it as banks, billionaires, and ETFs trade it for on CEXes. It’s an NFT that I may need to trade at a discount on the graymarket, or that may become totally useless to me. Worse, it’s a trap: What if I become desperate to recover value from it—desperate in the “I need food and medical care” sense (a plausible, realistic life emergency scenario)—and the only future way to recover value from BTC is to sell my privacy to KYC?

I want for Bitcoin to have privacy. It doesn’t, I am fighting for it, and I will not lie about that. Moreover...

Quote from: nullius on November 01, 2026, 12:35:09 PM

“Taint”, “AML checks”, and “risk scores” are cancer. This is chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy is painful.

Make no mistake: I am not attacking Bitcoin. “Taint”, “AML checks”, and “risk scores” have successfully attacked Bitcoin. Government pressure on mixers has successfully attacked Bitcoin, to the degree that the Bitcoin Forum has banned mixer ads. I am acknowledging the reality, and fighting back.

A note on the legality of porn

Quote from: nullius on November 05, 2026, 11:53:03 PM

Ever since the 1960s, people in Western democracies, at least, have generally thought of porn as “legal”. [...]

When you already brought porn and analogy into the discussion, shouldn't advertising porn be treated under the rule of the "Reiteration of ban on "dark" sites", and have the same conditions as for the mixers?

Absolutely not. The “mainstream” porn industry, at least, is operated by non-anonymous companies under onerous regulations—including, but not limited to 18 U.S.C. § 2257, which KYCs all performers in records available to the police on-demand.

Please don’t mistake what I said to FUD the porn industry: Their legal status is precarious (or “tenuous” as I said), and they are heavily burdened by the U.S. legal system, but they are not illegal. What they lack is this:

Quote from: nullius on November 05, 2026, 11:53:03 PM

In the U.S., sexual speech has only had a tenuous legality; it is not accorded the same status and constitutional protection as, say, speech advocating the election of a Democrat or a Republican.

And their status is precarious—perpetually under political attack, with many enemies and few friends. It makes them the canary in the free speech coal mine.

The porn industry also balances on the edge between legal and illegal and is very present on the dark web.

The “mainstream” porn industry has zero presence on the “dark web”.

Quote from: examplens on November 05, 2026, 12:39:33 PM

I don't know how far the regulation of porn goes in the US jurisdiction, but after all, it would be quite bizarre if the forum bears the consequences because of porn ads.

For information about this, please see the Free Speech Coalition, a 501(c)(6) U.S. porn industry trade group that’s armed to the teeth with American lawyers. They’ve done substantial litigation over the legality of porn, and the constitutionality of porn regulations—including a U.S. Supreme Court case they bought against the whole KYC-for-porn-consumers concept; they lost that case last year, despite being represented by the ACLU in the public interest.

Quote from: examplens

I am now looking at the letter of guarantee, and it catches my eye "Address Valid: 30 minutes..."
What happens after 30 minutes and if the user sends funds after that time?
As far as I understand, a new address is created for each order, so the address will not be assigned in another order after 30 minutes, so there is no risk of double use.
To avoid guesswork, how do you ultimately manage such cases?

Good question, and you understood it correctly: every order gets its own new deposit address, and it's never reused for another order, so there's no risk of funds landing in someone else's swap.

If funds arrive after the 30-minute window, the swap won't be executed. The funds aren't lost — the user just needs to contact our support with the Order ID, and we'll process the refund. It goes to the refund address if one was provided, or otherwise back to the wallet the funds were sent from.

So the best practice is simple: send within 30 minutes, and if you miss the window, just create a new order instead of using the old address.

Quote from: freedomgo on November 05, 2026, 04:34:52 AM

I tried using TOR browser and was planning to do the swap, so I tried to use my exchange wallet for XMR but I forgot that XMR was already delisted from the exchange I'm using. So what I did was just test the speed, I sent the Bitcoin I received back to my exchange and luckily there was no additional fee, just the network fee which was very small. Next time, I will try doing the actual swap. So for now, I can say that using TOR browser and an ordinary browser seems to have very little difference.

For God's sake, people, stop using an exchange as a substitute for a wallet. Also, stop sending coins directly from one exchange to another exchange or any other service. This is such a bad idea, where for the sake of saving $0.35 you risk many more problems and complications.
This has been talked about so many times, it's a bit unbelievable to me that it still needs to be repeated.

Thanks for the concern, I'm aware of the risk, that's why I'm only using an exchange that is not operating in my country, don't worry I have a lot of backups as the exchange I'm using doesn't require many documents. My main purpose for using that exchange is to trade and then withdraw through P2P. Next time I will try using an XMR wallet.

Quote from: examplens on Today at 12:34:45 PM

I came across several instant exchanges that don't use this type of tracking. In my opinion, the most acceptable approach, if they want some insight into the statistics and user behavior, is to do it in their own version rather than use third-party services.

I wish they would do that, but CCECASH doesn’t market itself as a "privacy service" it positions itself as an "instant crypto exchange," with No KYC tag which might be the reason. In any case, let’s wait a response from the platform’s team.

Quote from: examplens on Today at 12:34:45 PM

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Quote from: bitmover on October 28, 2026, 12:11:47 PM

Weird, data is sent to an analytics servics.

Although it is unlikely that they would share data with authorities, it isnt a good practice.

To be fair, CCECASH does have a "transaction freezing" feature; while rare, it does exist. Furthermore, it is extremely uncommon to find a platform that collects no user data at all. You should always assume that exchange do collect user information, so it is better to use Tor or a fresh, dedicated browser rather than relying on the assumption that a platform won't collect any of your data.
The deciding factor here is the requirement for KYC verification.

I came across several instant exchanges that don't use this type of tracking. In my opinion, the most acceptable approach, if they want some insight into the statistics and user behavior, is to do it in their own version rather than use third-party services.
Every time a third service is included, it is a sign that things are not completely under control.
A similar thing is with the means of liquidity. CCE.Cash uses a mixed liquidity pool, part of it comes from its own funds, while one part comes from partners. This confirms the 'rare KYC' status.

Using a tor browser highly increases your privacy in that sense as basically all fingerprinting data is the same for all tor users.

However, depending on which dara is shared, even tor browser wont protect your privacy entirely..

Quote from: bitmover on October 28, 2026, 12:11:47 PM

Quote from: examplens on October 28, 2026, 11:31:32 AM

CCE.Cash has analytical tools on the site, which are active during the entire swap process. they collects much more user data than is in line with privacy protection. Mentioned in the review https://landofcrypto.com/cce-cash-review/
Regardless of the choice of blockchain, information also goes to third parties

Weird, data is sent to an analytics servics.

Although it is unlikely that they would share data with authorities, it isnt a good practice.

To be fair, CCECASH does have a "transaction freezing" feature; while rare, it does exist. Furthermore, it is extremely uncommon to find a platform that collects no user data at all. You should always assume that exchange do collect user information, so it is better to use Tor or a fresh, dedicated browser rather than relying on the assumption that a platform won't collect any of your data.
The deciding factor here is the requirement for KYC verification.

Quote from: examplens on Today at 10:21:55 AM

Quote from: slackovic on Today at 09:53:27 AM

Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 09:06:44 AM

Binance je inace objavio postmortem u kojem objasnjavaju kako je doslo do hacka. Naime, prvo je jedan od zaposlenika jos u Lipnju skinuo malware (i to tako da je trazio nekakav AI tool, a Google mu na vrhu ponudio lazni) a onda je u Rujnu drugi zaposlenik pao na foru da su mu se javili kobajagi poslodavci te je tijekom intervjua za posao morao odraditi nekakav zadatak te je pritom ne znajuci skinuo nekakav malware.

Kuzim da su metode hackera sve naprednije, ali ne ide mi u glavu da zaposlenici Binancea koji rade na tako osjetljivim mjestima ocito koriste isti komp i za posao, i za svoje privatne stvari. I to tehnicki potkovana ekipa a ne neki Apu iz customer supporta koji cesto manje zna od onih koji ga kontaktiraju da rijesi problem.

Tekst je poduzi, ja sam zalijepio samo najosnovnije dijelove.

/snip

Da, ispada da su hakeri sasvim slučajno pogodili žrtvu koja je prva skinula malware. Mislim da sam pročitao da su hakeri, nakon što je prvi zaposlenik skinuo malware, na neki način došli do informacije tko je osoba koja u Binance ima malo veće ovlasti i ciljali ga tako što su mu se javili s ponudom za posao. Stvarno je nevjerojatno da osoba koja ima ovlasti nad tolikim novcem koristi isto računalo za privatne i službene stvari.

Sad cu nastupiti kao klasican balkanac i izraziti sumnju u slucajnost i nevinost tog koji je instalirao malware i tako kompromitovao ceo sistem. Pa nije to neka obicna firmica, gde tetka iz racunovodstva zarazi celu lokalnu mreznu grupu.
Mada razumem da Binance nece izneti javno sve detalje propusta, pa tako hrabriti mnoge druge da pokusaju napadati ponovo i traziti slicne propuste.

Vjerojatno nećemo nikada saznati što je istina.
Ako je službena verzija točna, onda se radi o velikoj neprofesionalnosti inženjera Binance-a, koji miješaju javno i privatno.
Što je druga mogućnost? Da je netko platio tom inženjeru da olakša ulaz hakerima? Ili da je bio ucijenjen?
Sad možemo špekulirati o tome do u nedogled ali to neće promijeniti činjenice, da je Binance ozbiljno kompromitiran i izgubio, barem djelomično, povjerenje korisnika.
Ako najveća crypto mjenjačnica može biti hakirana onda je očito da nijedna crypto mjenjačnica više nije sigurna od hakiranja i to ruši povjerenje klijenata.
Previše je ovakvih vijesti iz crypto industrije u zadnje vrijeme, crypto mjenjačnice, hardware walleti... previše problema i teško će crypto industrija vratiti povjerenje korisnika da sigurno čuva sredstva ili privatne podatke korisnika.

Quote from: examplens on October 31, 2026, 11:03:40 AM

It is unclear why these exchanges collected information about users, especially if they presented themselves as no-kyc

If the hacker’s claim is true that all these exchanges are interconnected and one of them facilitates crypto-to-fiat conversions then, generally speaking, such an exchange would eventually require more specific customer information.

By the way, was these services ever well-known? I can’t even find it properly indexed on Google. I’ve only heard of one of them, and that was in the context of scam accussations: ?topic=5582382.0

Quote from: examplens on Today at 03:42:30 PM

Gledaj to iz ugla kako se neko ponasa u kriznim momentima. Lako je biti najbolji i za preporuku kada sve funkcionise i nema vecih problema.

Stvar je u tome da za njih tih 6 milijardi nije veliki problem (tj ne bi trebao biti s obzirom na njihovu velicinu), te samim time i nije pravi test. Ako gledamo cisto u postocima, Bybit je prezivio dosta tezi hack prosle godine kad im je ukrano 1.5 milijardi dolara.

Quote from: examplens on Today at 03:42:30 PM

Na primer, FTX nije uspeo da iznese slican obim problema.

Istina, uz opasku da je CZ odigrao bitnu ulogu te prakticki pokrenuo bank run. Mislim, propao bi FTX i bez toga jer su bili debili, ali malo kasnije. Elon je malo zatrolao neki dan CZ na Twitteru, pa je ovaj odmah popizdio. Cheesy

Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 03:13:39 PM

Quote from: slackovic on Today at 02:08:03 PM

Ali činjenica je da bi 98% drugih burzi nakon ovakvog hacka proglasila bankrot i nikom ništa.

Sigurno da bi velika vecina propala nakon ovakvog hacka, ali to sto je Binance najveca mjenjacnica ne znaci da je najsigurnija, a jos manje da je prevelika da propadne. Ljudi su se kunili u FTX, zvali su ih novi Binance, pa svi znamo kako je to zavrsilo. Tako da meni ne znaci apsolutno nista to sto su oni prezivjeli ovaj hack.

Ako bi razmislali o preporukama neke CEX ocigledno je stvar licnog utiska. To treba uvek imati na umu.

Svakako, ali ne ide mi u glavu ta logika da nekome poraste u ocima mjenjacnica koja je upravo hackirana za najveci iznos u povijesti.

Quote from: slackovic on Today at 02:08:03 PM

Eto samo primer, gde su mene licno uverili da im sistem funkcionise.

Kod mene je bilo upravo suprotno, gdje sam vidio da im sustav ne funkcionira

Naime, bio sam njihov korisnik od samih pocetaka, jos od 2017. Imao (tj imam i dalje ) potpuno verificirani acc, njihovu debitnu karticu sam bas ono kvalitetno peglao te sam preko nje potrosio pun kurac love u tih par godina koliko je funkcionirala, i onda mi iznenada blokiraju acc te traze da dokazem vlasnistvo (nisam mijenjao email, pass, logirao se sa cudnih IP adresa, slao lovu na cudne adrese, apsolutno nista sumnjivo). Odradio sam sva moguca sranja koja su trazili (a bilo je bas debilnih), te ni nakon vise od mjesec dana nadjebavanja sa korisnickom podrskom nije bilo napretka. I onda sam jedan dan odlucio probati preko njihovog supporta na redditu, koji je rijesio stvar isti dan. Znaci imao sam peh da sam u tih mjesec i nesto dana pricao sa debilima, dok nisam naletio na nekog normalnog koji mi je otkljucao racun u roku od par sati. Naravno da sam tada povukao nesto malo sto sam imao tamo te ih vise nisam koristio.

Uhh baš nisi imao sreće s njima.
To ti je na žalost čest slučaj kod velikih sustava sa više milijuna korisnika.
Možeš li zamisliti kolika je to ''noćna mora'' osigurati korisničku podršku za tisuće upita na dnevnoj bazi?
Obično se koriste vanjski suradnici, često oni koje se može manje platiti, iz Indije, Bangladeša... a onda puno ovisi o sreći, na koga naiđeš i da li se radi o nekome novom, tko se još ''uhodava'' ili nekome tko već ima iskustva sa sličnim upitima.
Ja se slažem da ako bi već birao mjenjačnicu da bi ipak birao onu koja je duže otvorena, ima veće novčane rezerve, više razina zaštite... jer to ti ipak daje određenu razinu sigurnosti da ako se i dogodi hack da tvoja sredstava još uvijek mogu biti vraćena iz unutarnjih rezervi mjenjačnice i da nisi nužno ostao bez love.
MIslim, koliko firmi danas u svijetu može ostati bez 6 milijardi dolara u 20 minuta i preći preko toga kao da se ništa nije dogodilo Grin

Ali činjenica je da bi 98% drugih burzi nakon ovakvog hacka proglasila bankrot i nikom ništa.

Sigurno da bi velika vecina propala nakon ovakvog hacka, ali to sto je Binance najveca mjenjacnica ne znaci da je najsigurnija, a jos manje da je prevelika da propadne. Ljudi su se kunili u FTX, zvali su ih novi Binance, pa svi znamo kako je to zavrsilo. Tako da meni to sto su oni prezivjeli ovaj hack ne znaci apsolutno nista.

Ako bi razmislali o preporukama neke CEX ocigledno je stvar licnog utiska. To treba uvek imati na umu.

Svakako, ali ne ide mi u glavu ta logika da nekome poraste u ocima mjenjacnica koja je upravo hackirana za najveci iznos u povijesti.

Quote from: Arhad on Today at 06:45:24 AM

Eto samo primer, gde su mene licno uverili da im sistem funkcionise.

Kod mene je bilo upravo suprotno, gdje sam vidio da im sustav ne funkcionira

Naime, bio sam njihov korisnik od samih pocetaka, jos od 2017. Imao (tj imam i dalje ) potpuno verificirani acc, njihovu debitnu karticu sam bas ono kvalitetno peglao te sam preko nje potrosio pun kurac love u tih par godina koliko je funkcionirala, i onda mi iznenada blokiraju acc te traze da dokazem vlasnistvo nad acc (nisam mijenjao email, pass, logirao se sa cudnih IP adresa, slao lovu na cudne adrese, apsolutno nista sumnjivo). Odradio sam sva moguca sranja koja su trazili (a bilo je bas debilnih), te ni nakon vise od mjesec dana nadjebavanja sa korisnickom podrskom nije bilo napretka. I onda sam jedan dan odlucio probati preko njihovog supporta na redditu, koji je rijesio stvar isti dan. Znaci imao sam peh da sam u tih mjesec i nesto dana pricao sa debilima, dok nisam naletio na nekog normalnog koji mi je otkljucao racun u roku od par sati. Naravno da sam tada povukao nesto malo sto sam imao tamo te ih vise nisam koristio.

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Quote from: zasad@ on October 31, 2026, 10:33:37 AM

I would wait for official announcements.
Comcash does not ask users for their full names, mobile phone numbers, or email addresses. Therefore, this data could have been stolen from another source or simply generated. It is clear to me that the site has been compromised, but I see no reason to trust any of the other information for now.

According to what was stated, it is a group of ten exchanges/mixers. It is not clearly stated through which service the data was collected. Comcash is part of that group

Quote from: joniboini on November 01, 2026, 05:05:01 AM

It seems like I missed the hack. Seems like the clearnet is still not yet recovered. Why not change the link in sig with the onion link for the moment? Wouldn't it be safer to since there's a possibility the hacker changed the web to do something more malicious?

It’s actually quite a strange situation. The websites are currently inaccessible, but the servers haven’t been completely shut down. I left pages open in my browser and now I see that some of the files the hacker left are still there and anyone can access them.
For example:

Code:

example of clients -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/CCDBNAM.csv
code -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/Comcash.tar
How NOT to Run... -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/METODICHKA-1.pdf
Correspodence -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D1%8B.txt

I’ve looked at some data and come across a few things that I don’t quite understand: a client exchanges one cryptocurrency for another and provides the exchange service with a significant amount of personal data. Typically, exchanges don’t ask for personal data for such transactions the process usually works just like it does with the service mentioned in your signature.
Anonymous Exchange does not request personal data, so do not trust scammers who have published such information.

You probably haven't examined the data closely if you're drawing conclusions like that. The document includes phone numbers and bank card details collected during exchanges involving Russian rubles. The email addresses may have been obtained when users registered on the exchange site or during the exchange process, when they were sent updates on their transaction status.

Let me explain my perspective in a way that’s easier to follow.
Can you prove to me that the published customer data actually belongs to ComCASH?

I took some addresses from the file- picking them at random from the beginning and the end, and the most recent transactions for these addresses occurred more than two years ago; for some, it’s been over a year.
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1q9c6w35k3049xv0r5j7x6tlyp63lud756ta20ux
https://blockchair.com/ru/bitcoin-cash/address/qpnewwexv2pyz47aa9ytvlugz2pnfn58vqd4mxv86q
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qwuvxf8ugtaw0cl6m52sapqk9tyrm4c6lc0k09s

This is old data, and I don’t know where it was stolen from, but if you have more information, please publish it.

Quote from: examplens on Today at 12:16:05 PM

/snip

Inace, nisam bas sve pratio, ali sta se desava sa zamrznutim USDT? Ako sam dobro razumeo, tu ce najvecu stetu podneti sasvim druga kompanija jer su prihvatili rizican novac kao kolateral.

To sam i ja pitao ovdje ali mislim da nisam dobio odgovor. Radi se o tome da su hakeri prije nego su im stablecoini zamrznuti uspjeli napraviti deposit u Aave i posuditi ETH. Sad imaju ETH, a Aave ima nekoliko milijuna (ili milijardi, ne znam) zamrznutog USDT-a. Ne znam može li se jednom zamrznuti USDT odmrznuti. S obzirom da se radi o centraliziranom sustavu, vjerujem da se može odmrznuti. Aave je decentralizirana lending platforma (barem koliko sam ja upućen) i sama platforma u trenutku deposita nije mogla znati da se radi o rizičnom novcu.

Quote from: zasad@ on November 02, 2026, 03:17:38 PM

Quote from: examplens on November 01, 2026, 09:27:08 PM

Quote from: zasad@ on October 31, 2026, 10:33:37 AM

I would wait for official announcements.
Comcash does not ask users for their full names, mobile phone numbers, or email addresses. Therefore, this data could have been stolen from another source or simply generated. It is clear to me that the site has been compromised, but I see no reason to trust any of the other information for now.

According to what was stated, it is a group of ten exchanges/mixers. It is not clearly stated through which service the data was collected. Comcash is part of that group

Quote from: joniboini on November 01, 2026, 05:05:01 AM

It seems like I missed the hack. Seems like the clearnet is still not yet recovered. Why not change the link in sig with the onion link for the moment? Wouldn't it be safer to since there's a possibility the hacker changed the web to do something more malicious?

It’s actually quite a strange situation. The websites are currently inaccessible, but the servers haven’t been completely shut down. I left pages open in my browser and now I see that some of the files the hacker left are still there and anyone can access them.
For example:

Code:

example of clients -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/CCDBNAM.csv
code -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/Comcash.tar
How NOT to Run... -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/METODICHKA-1.pdf
Correspodence -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D1%8B.txt

I’ve looked at some data and come across a few things that I don’t quite understand: a client exchanges one cryptocurrency for another and provides the exchange service with a significant amount of personal data. Typically, exchanges don’t ask for personal data for such transactions the process usually works just like it does with the service mentioned in your signature.
Anonymous Exchange does not request personal data, so do not trust scammers who have published such information.

You probably haven't examined the data closely if you're drawing conclusions like that. The document includes phone numbers and bank card details collected during exchanges involving Russian rubles. The email addresses may have been obtained when users registered on the exchange site or during the exchange process, when they were sent updates on their transaction status.

Quote from: Peanutswar

1. Seems dex.fo is one of the trusted but right now I guess Philippines arent yet ready for this but if there is a chance to be added on your list why not.

Quote from: logfiles

Just seen the poll question regarding using cash payouts for crypto in different countries around the world. Much as I would love this to even happen. I don't think it's possible or maybe i just don't know how you guy plan on pulling this off if it's not the p2p exchange kind of model.

Quote from: stompix

Yup, too many variables when meeting such a person, this is why I said it's a stranger no matter the affiliation

Thanks, everyone — and thanks to Hamza2424, examplens, hosemary and SamReomo for filling others in. To make it official for anyone just catching up: the cash payout idea is closed. It was only ever about physical cash by courier, never banks or P2P, and after your feedback we decided it doesn't fit a privacy-first service — stompix's list of "what could go wrong" sums it up well.

DEX.fo stays exactly what it is: automatic crypto-to-crypto swaps with no KYC. Our focus now is on what you've asked for most, starting with Solana, which is already in development.

Quote from: examplens on October 30, 2026, 01:55:00 PM

This can be automated very easily, so that it looks like the account is always online and present, even though the human has nothing to do with it.
I wouldn't take that as a parameter, especially not if we're talking about someone with coding experience.

They haven’t logged in since October 29th and their logout date predates my post regarding their last seen status. it is possible that they have actually logged in and are reading PM messages.

Quote from: examplens on November 01, 2026, 09:27:08 PM

Quote from: zasad@ on October 31, 2026, 10:33:37 AM

I would wait for official announcements.
Comcash does not ask users for their full names, mobile phone numbers, or email addresses. Therefore, this data could have been stolen from another source or simply generated. It is clear to me that the site has been compromised, but I see no reason to trust any of the other information for now.

According to what was stated, it is a group of ten exchanges/mixers. It is not clearly stated through which service the data was collected. Comcash is part of that group

Quote from: joniboini on November 01, 2026, 05:05:01 AM

It seems like I missed the hack. Seems like the clearnet is still not yet recovered. Why not change the link in sig with the onion link for the moment? Wouldn't it be safer to since there's a possibility the hacker changed the web to do something more malicious?

It’s actually quite a strange situation. The websites are currently inaccessible, but the servers haven’t been completely shut down. I left pages open in my browser and now I see that some of the files the hacker left are still there and anyone can access them.
For example:

Code:

example of clients -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/CCDBNAM.csv
code -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/Comcash.tar
How NOT to Run... -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/METODICHKA-1.pdf
Correspodence -> https://comcash.exchange/downloads/%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D1%8B.txt

I’ve looked at some data and come across a few things that I don’t quite understand: a client exchanges one cryptocurrency for another and provides the exchange service with a significant amount of personal data. Typically, exchanges don’t ask for personal data for such transactions the process usually works just like it does with the service mentioned in your signature.

Quote from: examplens on October 29, 2026, 10:42:08 AM

It seems you didn't drink too much beer after all, given that you remember everything.

Quite a bad decision to spend money drunk.
Although I have done the same process for my crypto transactions so many times, it often seems to me that I do too much automatically. Very often I have the feeling that I skipped some part, for example, like checking the deposit address on the HW screen, although I didn't because it is already a common process.

If you’re not focused and your attention is wandering, the best option is to put off any money-related tasks. It definitely won’t lead to anything good.

I’ve been lucky because I tend to be overly meticulous at times. I double-check things several times before finally clicking the button and taking action. This has saved me more than once. Apparently, that’s exactly what happened in that situation, and I stopped just in time.

Quote from: MarryWithBTC on Today at 02:12:55 PM

Quote from: examplens on Today at 04:05:51 PM

I'm not sure why the story about the mixer's return to bitcointalk keeps dragging on when it's already been clearly stated. theymos said that the behavior of the Trump administration could influence the change of decision, if it is shown that they will not be "hostile" towards privacy services. Later, he concluded that he was still not convinced, and the point was put to rest on that topic.

Although I am still of the opinion that the mixer ban is a kind of pressure on all privacy and no-kyc services, the decision should be accepted and it is obvious that it will not be revised again.

So far, if the activities and policies of Trump's administration which is considered a pro-bitcoin administration could not convince theymos, I doubt any other president's administration can.

It will stress us less if we consider mixers permanently gone.

This can't be stood upon to be accepted. Moreover, I don't see President Trump administration to be a pro bitcoin administration, maybe before his assumption to the office we thought so, but going forward his actions doesn't reflect any much of the many campaigns promises he made about bitcoin and the bitcoin community he only used as a means to an end.

I solidly feel positive that things might even get rather more positive with bitcoin and even with mixers returning to the forum after Trump's administration gets over.

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The idea may not be bad, but it seems wrong to me, at least when it comes to privacy-focused (instant) exchanges.
Saving the deposit address would require some kind of log or similar record, and that is enough to cancel the no-log policy or no holding user data.

That’s a good point. Perhaps it would be better to think of it simply as a floating exchange order with a long time limit, and preferably accepting multiple deposits. I think it’s necessary to persist something to disk during a trade anyway (and then promptly purge it), or else funds would be lost in case of a system crash.

Quote from: examplens on Today at 04:05:51 PM

I would certainly always trust the wallet that I control more than leaving it all to a third-party service. At least to the greatest extent.

Trust-based systems are always problematic. But the service they already have is already based on trust—oh, trust, and PGP-signed guarantee letters, and escrow.

It must be emphasized, I don’t want anyone to hold coins for me! What I seek is strictly noncustodial. I keep coins in my wallet—my keys, my coins. I just want to set it up so that when someone sends me BTC, I automatically receive the same XMR (later ZEC) that I’d exchange to manually, if I bothered with a Bitcoin wallet.

As long as I have the PGP-signed guarantee letter, blockchain data on the BTC side, and my own wallet’s data on the XMR/ZEC side (which could be revealed to others with per-transaction view keys in case of scam), there’s no way they could get away with cheating me. Trust is minimized on the basis of, “Trust, but verify.”

Quote from: PrivacyG on October 23, 2026, 09:10:12 PM

I'm not sure why the story about the mixer's return to bitcointalk keeps dragging on when it's already been clearly stated.

Well, I can speak only for myself about that: I’m a long-term thinker, and this is a Bitcoin Culture War. I do not look only to today. I look to five years, ten years in the future: What does this portend?

I could LOL about the mixer advertising ban. I only rarely used mixers, and I never fully relied on them; when the police seized data that ChipMixer was foolishly retaining, all they could ever have found was my anonymous swaps straight from Zcash shielded into ChipMixer deposit addresses. I used Chip as an extra layer of privacy; I thought that perhaps, in practice, ChipMixer may have a bigger anonymity set than shielded-ZEC-to-BTC swappers. I don’t need mixers. And I was never in ChipMixer’s paid signature campaign; I have no financial incentive to protest here.

Well, I’ll tell you what I see: Privacy has gotten much worse on all fronts; the Bitcoin Forum banning mixer ads has me reasonably in a state of culture shock; and if the past decade’s trends continue for the next decade, that is a future in which I do not want to live.

I’m not the only one...

Things have DRASTICALLY changed over the last decade, and they are only getting a lot worse. I actually wish this is doom thinking, but we are almost there. 'The culture' has already accepted most of what they have been served.

...but so few are the people who really care about this. That’s why it’s a cultural problem.

theymos said that the behavior of the Trump administration could influence the change of decision, if it is shown that they will not be "hostile" towards privacy services. Later, he concluded that he was still not convinced, and the point was put to rest on that topic.

I dunno why anyone would expect a WLFI/meme shitcoiner in bed with Palantir to be friendly to Bitcoin privacy, but... whatever, it hasn’t happened.

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Quote from: MarryWithBTC on Today at 02:12:55 PM

Although I am still of the opinion that the mixer ban is a kind of pressure on all privacy and no-kyc services, the decision should be accepted and it is obvious that it will not be revised again.

Because the mixer ban is a kind of pressure on all privacy and no-kyc services, we need to talk about it, and keep talking about it—and I will not shut the fuck up about it!

First, they came for the mixers. I said nothing, because I’m a snooty Zcasher doing no-KYC anonymous accountless swaps to/from the transparent surveillance-chain when I need it. Why would I speak up for the ignorant masses, who need the convenience of a centralised mixer?

Then, they came for...

The way things are going, examplens, what future prospects do you predict for my current paid signature? No one would have foreseen the mixer advertising ban in 2016; what will we have in 2036?

It will stress us less if we consider mixers permanently gone.

^^^ Cultural problem, Exhibit A. This is why I see the mixer advertising ban as an important Bitcoin political issue—as an activist issue.

As I have said repeatedly, I am cautious about criticising theymos. I know he may be subject to many pressures—and perhaps, his decision may have been well-guided in the circumstance. (Perhaps. At this time, I do not hereby opine on that either way.) It doesn’t stop me from speechifying about the issue—nor from thinking that eddie13 had a great idea about litigating this in the public interest.

Quote from: examplens on October 29, 2026, 10:42:08 AM

It seems you didn't drink too much beer after all, given that you remember everything.

Quite a bad decision to spend money drunk.
Although I have done the same process for my crypto transactions so many times, it often seems to me that I do too much automatically. Very often I have the feeling that I skipped some part, for example, like checking the deposit address on the HW screen, although I didn't because it is already a common process.

You are right, he didn't take too much alcohol because he was able to still think logically, he was tipsy and at that point there is a high chance that he would have made some mistakes due to the influence of alcohol. It is important to always double check the details of transaction like the deposit address that you always seem to skip, you might miss something that can affect you at some point.