Hacker News with Generative AI: Monero

How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise (zola.ink)
Since Trump’s election and even before that, news kept coming out about how crypto was going to change the world, how the US was going to become the crypto capital of the world, and how they wanted to build strategic reserves of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Ripple, and others. At the same time, however, they de-listed Monero from major exchanges like Binance and even criminalized this cryptocurrency.
How Chainalysis made their way into popular Monero wallets (digilol.net)
A now-deleted and actively censored training video from Chainalysis — a blockchain analysis company — revealed Monero RPC logs, seemingly from a popular public Monero "node" called node.moneroworld.com. Many wallets like Cake Wallet and Monerujo include it in their list of default public nodes. In this post we will explain how Chainalysis's malicious nodes were given to users choosing the public node node.moneroworld.com and the dangers of dangling DNS records of decomissioned Monero nodes.