DigitalHelios🌞

• Crypto • Privacy • Domains

[DigitalHelios🌞 @DigitalHelio5]

It’s a fire in a madhouse!

#life

[͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ @babysolo_]

Privacy is becoming a luxury.

Rich people use trusts, shell companies, family offices, Swiss banks

Poor people get Venmo and transparent blockchains.

Financial privacy has always existed,
it's just never been available to everyone.

Until monero:native

[͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ @babysolo_]

In 10 years, finance textbooks will have a dedicated chapter on $XMR

The case study: The only asset in history that the entire financial system tried to coordinate kill

> Delisted by the biggest liquidity providers
> Demonized by regulators globally
> Zero marketing budget or Zero VC backing

Yet, it didn't die.

Why? Because they accidentally created the only honest market in crypto.

The most hated asset became the most necessary asset

Study Monero.

[StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_]

Monero is the only major crypto whose founder is still completely unknown.

How it started:

- be an anonymous poster on Bitcointalk
- username: thankful_for_today
- April 2014
- launches BitMonero
- an implementation of CryptoNote
- community disagrees with his direction
- forks him out in days
- project is renamed Monero
- (“coin” in Esperanto)
- founder disappears forever

The protocol itself comes from another ghost:

- CryptoNote whitepaper (2013)
- author: Nicolas van Saberhagen
- also anonymous
- introduces ring signatures + stealth addresses
- never identified

Since then, Monero has no founder to arrest
Just a community.

2014–2016: survival phase

- small dev group forms
- fully volunteer
- mostly anonymous

2014–2019: Spagni era

- Riccardo Spagni (fluffypony) becomes lead maintainer
- not the founder
- never claimed to be
- focuses on hardening
- community governance

2020: network-layer privacy

- Dandelion++ implemented
- transaction propagation obfuscated
- IP privacy improved

2022: the unpopular but correct decision

- main emission ends
- tail emission begins
- 0.6 XMR per block forever
- critics scream “infinite supply”
- devs explain incentives

2023–2024: pressure phase

- regulators target privacy tools
- Tornado Cash sanctions
- dev arrests elsewhere
- P2P survives

2025: stress tests

- hashrate concentration scare
- community responds
- mining decentralization improves
- chain continues

January 2026: still alive

- Fluorine Fermi v0.18.4.5 released
- Ledger fixes
- FCMP++ in roadmap
- next-gen privacy
- New ATH

Satoshi disappeared by accident.
Monero’s founders disappeared by design.

[DigitalHelios🌞 @DigitalHelio5]

@Aladey https://t.co/SUkW4b36GY

[CR1337 @CR1337]

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇳 A man in India dug up his deceased sister's skeleton and brought it to the bank just to prove she had died.

He'd been trying to withdraw money from her account for months.

Staff kept telling him the account holder needed to appear in person.

He's illiterate and had no idea a death certificate existed.

The bank got what it asked for.

Source: Times of India

[Sweep @0xSweep]

Two guys ran an entire hacking operation in a PRISON for months

In 2015, two prisoners in Ohio were assigned to a recycling program where they dismantled old computers

Instead of scrapping the parts, they started stealing them

Carried components over 1,100 feet past guards, metal detectors, and multiple security checkpoints

Then built two working PCs and hid them behind a plywood board in the ceiling of a training room closet

They ran cables from the ceiling into the prison's own network

Stole login credentials from an employee by watching him type his password

Set up Bitcoin wallets, Stripe accounts, bank accounts and credit card applications using another inmate's stolen identity

Downloaded VPNs, the Tor browser, password cracking tools and what investigators called "a large hacker's toolkit"

Created fake security passes to access restricted areas of the prison

This entire operation ran for months

They only got caught because one of the computers used so much bandwidth it triggered an automatic alert

The Inspector General said it was "almost as if it's an episode of Hogan's Heroes"

Two guys with recycled computer parts and a ceiling tile built a cybercrime operation inside a state prison

[Sweep @0xSweep]

The Police once raided a warehouse and found 3,800 PlayStations running FIFA

Ukraine's security service raided a warehouse in Vinnytsia expecting to find a crypto mining farm

Instead they found PS4 consoles stacked on racks from floor to ceiling

Every single one was running FIFA 21 on autopilot, farming Ultimate Team coins 24 hours a day to sell on the black market

The operation was stealing $259,000 a month in electricity and causing power blackouts across the entire city

The consoles alone were worth $1.5 million

EA makes $1.6 billion a year from Ultimate Team

The FIFA coin black market is worth over $200 million a year

At black market rates, 3,800 consoles farming coins 24/7 could pull in $3 to $5 million a year

Around the same time an actual EA employee got caught selling rare Ultimate Team cards for $1,000 each on the side

Even the people who made the game were running the same hustle

[Sam Bent @DoingFedTime]

@WatcherGuru

[CR1337 @CR1337]

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database:

Especially when you are using Signal on an iPhone, and your settings in the Signal app allow for message notifications and previews to show up on the lock screen, the device will store the previews in the internal memory of the device!

[DigitalHelios🌞 @DigitalHelio5]

@Pps831 @recouso @imidaily Maybe not only for tax reasons..

https://t.co/KXwxE33HmC

[Douglas Tuman @DouglasTuman]

The permanent suspension of @xmrbazaar is pure absurdity.

An account devoted to peacefully spreading the P2P digital cash movement gets banned for “illegal and regulated behaviors” on a “free speech” platform.

Yet X happily condones porn, spam AI bots, and endless evil/useless accounts.

Why punish a tool of freedom while platforming endless crap?

Reinstate @xmrbazaar !

Like and share so @elonmusk is forced to tell us why X is working to hurt the growth of the most successful p2p crypto marketplace for legal goods and services.

Expose the hypocrisy! Elon please fix this.

[Ali G @AliNewman8887]

Cupcake Wallet setup on a GrapheneOS
equipped offline phone (for air-gapped Monero key storage and QR signing) generally has more layers of security to breach than a Trezor or Ledger hardware wallet paired with the Monero GUI especially against real-world threats like malware, supply chain issues, or remote exploits.

This is due to GrapheneOS's defense in depth design combined with the phone's hardware, making key extraction significantly harder in practice.

Hardware wise in person it looks low profile.

Plus if there's ever a crack down on crypto they'll target hardware wallet company's first.

Extremely unlikely either way.

Plus no need to buy pricey hardware wallets.

Cupcake has it for free just use a old phone and airplane mode that thing.

XMR.

[Sam Bent @DoingFedTime]

Mullvad sponsoring GrapheneOS servers is more privacy infrastructure built in a single reply than Congress has produced in a decade of "privacy legislation."

They also accept Monero, because real privacy companies don't need your name, your email, or a screenshot of your homescreen.

[Alki David @alkidavid]

@JulianAssange_ 10 Years later.... https://t.co/2QVCILjcA7

[mrredpillz jokaqarmy @JOKAQARMY1]

It's getting weirder out here. Everything this man was saying it's coming to fruition 🤔.

[Digital Nomad Woman @taqwaayub]

Market is simple

Be bullish at support and bearish at resistance :)

$Btc.d

[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

Just example 93838293939 of why Ripple has the most low iq holders convinced by disingenuous marketing

Blackrock itself did not invest or back XRPL

Ondo has a product that is called Ondo Short-Term U.S. Government Treasuries (OUSG)

Ondo just leverages BlackRock’s tokenized fund (BUIDL) for the RWA product

OUSG was already live on three other chains (Ethereum, Solana, Polygon) prior to XRPL

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

Economics.