[HN Gopher] The creator of North Korean hackers' new favorite cr...
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       The creator of North Korean hackers' new favorite crypto privacy
       service
        
       Author : xrayarx
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2023-02-11 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com)
        
       | dfghjkhuytgfrde wrote:
       | this is clearly a honeypot.
       | 
       | and this article is clearly a brigth ligth they added to attract
       | more flies
        
       | yunohn wrote:
       | > say, a retail store that wants to accept cryptocurrency
       | payments without revealing its revenue to a competitor
       | 
       | But has anyone actually done this??
       | 
       | This is like a "both sides" debate - where the theoretical
       | usecases side has literally /never/ actually shown it's possible
       | IRL.
        
         | nwiswell wrote:
         | It's also trivially defeated by the kind of financial
         | centralization that would necessarily follow in this kind of
         | mass-adoption scenario: the payment processor (BitPay, Visa,
         | MasterCard, whatever) can have a pool of Bitcoin transaction
         | addresses that they use across all clients, and then commingle
         | and convert client funds to USD (or whatever desired currency)
         | before privately remitting the USD.
         | 
         | The payment processor itself would have perfect visibility into
         | the revenue of the merchant, but that's already true today.
        
       | zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
       | Good for him
        
       | latchkey wrote:
       | Sitting behind cloudflare. That won't last long.
       | 
       | https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5416985.0
        
         | from wrote:
         | (Assuming these people aren't idiots). You don't know if they
         | have any kind of reverse proxy setup beyond that. Even if they
         | seize whatever server has the IP that Cloudflare is proxying
         | they might just find an nginx server that's only a reverse
         | proxy. If they alternate servers periodically and locate them
         | in non-cooperative jurisdictions then they can prevent the
         | government from finding anything useful. If they get kicked off
         | Cloudflare they'll just go to DDOS-Guard. WHOIS data will
         | probably lead them to njal.la, a person that does not exist, or
         | some other domain nominee service. Nice right?
        
           | flangola7 wrote:
           | Could also be a clearweb proxy to an onion site.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/yS8Ng
        
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