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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by davidgerard on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @06:27AM (#21513283)
Monero's trading volume is not that great - you can reveal information through relatively-large movements, a sort of side-channel attack.
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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by RandomBacon on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @11:02AM (#21515110)
That's the first time I've heard that claim before.

I know its volume is way higher than Zcash's shielded transactions.

Do you have any details on how it might work?

I assume you're just not talking about simple timing correlation combined with trading BTC->XMR->BTC (poor opsec).

As far as I know, you can't reveal XMR amounts, receipent, or sender if you're just remaining in XMR and not going through a third party (exchange, conversion service, etc). So I'm really curious about the details of your claim.

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Re:IRS Says ‘Dozens’ of New Crypto, Cybercriminals Are Ident... by davidgerard on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:19AM (#21521784)
Mostly just simple timing correlation, because coiners turn out to talk a much better game about opsec than they practice.
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