Very interesting video. Is far as I can see, there are really only three points of weakness that were exploited by the chain analysis. The first was if the transaction was started using one of their Monero nodes. The second was exchanges or partner services. The third was the fee structure used. So as long as you use the default fees, use trusted Monero nodes (especially your own), and you either don't use exchanges/partner services or at the very least, have multiple wallets where each wallet connects to at most one exchange/service (i.e. one wallet has public money inflows from a single service and another has public money outflows from a single service), it would be virtually impossible to have your transactions traced.

[–] antidote@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago

Your suggestion to have separate wallets for inbound, and outbound doxxed transactions is actually very good

[–] antidote@monero.town 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks Nyx!

It seems the recommendations are:

use a trusted VPN
use a trusted remote node (like your own remote node)
in general, be careful which exchanges you use

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TLDW of what's in the vídeo?

[–] sech1@monero.town 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's about how Chainalysis tries to trace Monero - their actual strategies.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hm, so why was it censored?

[–] chillband@monero.town 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because it leaked their strategy for "tracking monero users", running monero nodes so they can farm users IP connecting to their nodes. use Tor/VPN and run your own node.

[–] xmr_unlimited@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago

Monero community was already aware of these avenues tho. I think they just wanted particular details in the video kept....private.

[–] nihilist@monero.town 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

TLDW :

do not trust random nodes, go and host your own (locally or not) -> to prevent them from logging ip addresses and to deanonymize on the IP level (attacking dandelion from what i understand ?)
if you do end up using a remote node, connect to it through tor to maintain anonymity
Stay off centralised exchanges, never KYC.

[–] HardenedSteel@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

all links were taken down, here's the new links:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d371d4e4cb9a3760ef79e94fde0b8edf22062e49&dn=Chainalysis+Presentation+on+Monero+to+IRS+-+August+2023&tr=http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php

[–] Rucknium@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've put this video on the next Monero Research Lab meeting agenda: https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1070

All are free to join the text-based MRL meetings.

[–] nihilist@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago

very nice, keep up the good work guys

[–] xmr_unlimited@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago

List of wallets shows featherwallet being ignored again 😀

[–] nihilist@monero.town 2 points 2 months ago

by the way, check out my blogpost on that topic https://blog.nowhere.moe/opsec/chainalysisattempts/index.html, with my opsec recommendations