IRS Attempts to Trace Monero, Response from Monero Community

IRS Attempts to Trace Monero, Response from Monero Community

Author: The most important weekly tech news + solutions. October 31, 2024 Duration: 11:15

We had the privilege of asking the Monero community our questions from our article: LEAKED: IRS Attempts to Trace Monero in Leaked Training Video, Response from Monero

We received a response from Rucknium - an anonymous statistician of Monero Research Lab who’s conducted some of the first professional statistical analyses of the Monero blockchain and contributed work through Monero’s CCS (community crowdfunding system), including current work on improving Monero’s Decoy Selection algorithm.

Read more for comments from Rucknium in response to our questions here.



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