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How to buy #Monero $XMR
1. First make your private custodial wallet.
2. Secure your private keys and passphrases on paper, or USB, in a safe, don't show or give these to anyone, ever.
3. Don't keep your coins on an exchange long term. Buy them, swap them, then get them to your wallet for safe keeping in your hands.
- Cakewallet.com Privacy focused digital wallet.
- Kraken.com Centralized Exchange still available for US residents. More convenient but requires KYC for buying. Once Monero is sent to your own wallet, it's untraceable from there.
- Changenow.io 3rd party crypto swap service, good for no KYC for small amounts.
- Trocador.app Crypto No KYC Swap aggregator
- Cakewallet.com in house swap service no kyc.
- Retoswap.com Private and secure platform to trade p2p with people. Uses tor, escrow, reviews. Swap crypto, cash.
- XMRBazaar.com Online marketplace focused on Monero as a means of exchange. Find p2p parties to trade with here.
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If you own crypto, this is genuinely scary.
A top bitcoin researcher, who actively works at the Ethereum foundation, is telling us to move our crypto to a bunker.
He thinks there is now a reasonable possibility that superhuman AI discovers a way to break the cryptography securing Bitcoin and Ethereum before quantum computers do.
That sounds insane, but there’s some important context.
Bitcoin and Ethereum rely heavily on ECDSA. At a very basic level, your wallet has a private key, and mathematics allows you to derive a public key from it.
Going forward is easy.
Going backward and figuring out the private key from the public information is considered effectively impossible.
A huge amount of crypto security rests on that assumption.
Drake is worried that AI could discover some completely new mathematical shortcut that changes it.
Why is he worried about this now?
AI has made some pretty ridiculous advances in mathematics this year.
Earlier this year, an OpenAI model autonomously disproved a famous Erdős conjecture dating back around 80 years, using mathematical techniques researchers hadn’t expected.
Then, literally the day before Drake made this post, OpenAI released hundreds of AI-generated mathematical results across hundreds of problem families.
One of those results broke through a longstanding assumption involving the complexity of integer multiplication.
That does NOT mean AI broke ECDSA.
It didn’t.
The signal is that AI is increasingly demonstrating an ability to find novel approaches to mathematical problems humans have studied for decades.
At the same time, researchers have been making progress on the other threat: quantum computers.
Estimates for the resources required to attack elliptic-curve cryptography have fallen significantly, and researchers, including Drake himself, have been working on making those attacks more efficient.
So his concern is basically:
What if everyone is preparing for quantum computers to eventually break ECDSA, but superhuman AI discovers a mathematical shortcut first?
That’s the part he thinks the crypto industry isn't sufficiently prepared for.
If ECDSA were efficiently broken, the consequences could obviously be catastrophic. Depending on the attack and what information an address has exposed, an attacker could potentially recover private keys and steal funds.
Drake isn't saying this has happened.
He isn't even saying it's definitely going to happen.
He's saying that recent AI progress has moved the probability from something he could comfortably ignore to something worth preparing for.
His recommendation is surprisingly simple.
If you're a major holder, exchange, custodian, ETF, treasury, etc., consider moving assets from heavily used addresses into fresh addresses that have never signed a transaction.
Then don't use those addresses.
That limits the cryptographic information you've exposed and potentially buys you additional protection if a vulnerability is suddenly discovered.
For the really large players, he thinks the industry should begin preparing to move beyond ECDSA entirely and toward post-quantum / hash-based cryptography.
The downside is enormous, the precautions are relatively cheap, and AI progress is moving fast enough that waiting until an attack exists may be too late.
He thinks it's now reasonable to consider the possibility that ECDSA could break before AGI/Q-Day, potentially on a timeline of months rather than years.
Nothing publicly known can currently do this.
But his argument is essentially:
For decades we've protected trillions of dollars with mathematical problems because humans couldn't figure out how to solve them efficiently.
We're now building machines that may become much better at mathematics than humans.
Maybe it's time to stop assuming those two facts can coexist forever.
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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🚨 BREAKING: The Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office has a Somali man in custody who was plotting to commit a mass casualty event at the Mall of America.
This comes after two Somali gang shootings occurred in the neighboring city of Eden Prairie.
This is getting out of hand.
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USD Cash is private. Yet people are brainwashed to be scared of privacy. Mostly because of tyrannical patriot act AML/KYC laws that treat you like a criminal for wanting to take out a few bucks for a used car.
In the digital realm $XMR is privacy king.
When it comes to privacy in crypto Monero is king
Why is every one so scared of mentioning it?
Are the biggest crypto accounts federal agents? Or what
I can't wrap my head around it.
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We had this "scare" from 2020 as well. Don't buy it.
Bubonic plague: Teenage boy dies from 'Black Death' disease news.sky.com/story/bubonic-p…
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NEW - Covid jab scientists at Oxford/AstraZeneca develop bubonic plague vaccine as military experts say UK should stock supplies of Black Death inoculation — Telegraph
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This is the Minnesota that Democrats are proud of.
Criminals are so emboldened by the promise of no consequences that they commit organized crimes en masse, openly and without fear.
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Countdown checklist to monero:native being live for trading on @THORChain
✅ chain code live
✅ Daemons live
⏳ Upgrade to 3.21
⏳ Bifrost activated
⏳ Vault created via churn
⏳ Pool seeded with tiny liquidity
⏳ Successful swaps
⏳ Make sure everything is working smoothly in production
⏳ Treasury deepens liquidity to $50k
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Somali gun violence spreading to the burbs like wildfire in Twin Cities.
Vote out every fckn liberal who enabled this.
DEVELOPING: Gunfire in Eden Prairie, Bloomington follows Edina 'gun violence' community meeting
A community meeting was held at Edina City Hall Monday night to discuss recent violent incidents in the city and surrounding areas.
The recent incidents include shots fired on the campus of Edina’s Our Lady of Grace church and school late last month, which the police chief later said involved Somalis, and a double shooting at Eden Prairie High School’s homecoming game this past Friday, which that city’s police chief later confirmed was Somali gang violence.
Hours after the meeting ended, Eden Prairie police confirmed that shots had been fired in yet another incident in their city Monday night.
Additionally, police are investigating a shooting in Bloomington that took place early Tuesday.
Sources told Alpha News that the shootings in Eden Prairie and Bloomington were also related to Somali gangs.
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Politics is nothing more than voting for the lesser evil.
BUT there is still big difference... never forget how blue states handled covid vs red states. It was the difference between forced lockdowns, prolonged canceled school, gatherings, and tyrannical vax mandates
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If Democrats win the midterms, there will be a great depression, and you will be nuked by Iran.
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Bessent and Trump are close to causing a debt crisis with this war...
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BREAKING: We just caught something wild in our data on Trump's stock trading.
Two weeks ago, President Trump filed a purchase of up to a million dollars of stock in a company called PTC Inc.
It was just announced that $PTC is being acquired.
The stock is up over 30% today.
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When are we starting go fund me
🚨#BREAKING: “Cornell 7” frat member tells campus police he was too intoxicated to consent to sex with his accuser, suggesting he was the one assaulted.
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