Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero

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Follow the thread on Dread: http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6onoyno2yv7jicoxknyazubrad.onion/post/6de54b143e669e368af6UPDATE: Because a lot of people don't insist on going to the thread and reading comments. Please look at the comment below from the same person who made the thread.What we know so far about the world wide tracing and deanonymization operationChainalysis, based on the leaked video presentation directly from Chainalysis themselves, shows that their operation is successful and it continues to run even now as we write this article. Lets break down the facts shortly first and then follow up with consequences and possible countermeasures to resist those attacks. The Chainalysis-like attacks are ongoing and will only increase in time. Simply because the current design of Monero allows it.Chainalysis:is running large amount of poisoned Monero nodes through their world-wide operation and their own admins. They call them “our administrators” in the presentation.if one is using remote node (any remote node except his own), he can easily be the victim of the Chanalysis ongoing deanonymization attack.anyone can run the large amount of the poisoned Monero nodes and provide the same attack too and there is no way to find out.is indirectly stating that of their administrator was, now defunct, the node.moneroworld.com[color=red]. There is an unknown amount of other Chainalysis administrators around the world running the poisoned nodes for them now.that was the reason the other knowledgeable Monero users called the site as an infiltration. The website is down now.There is no way as of now to identify those poisoned Monero nodes, used by the naive Monero users as their remote nodes.using the Monero remote node doesn’t utilize the important Dandelion++ feature of Monero, available only if you run your own nodethere can be other actors doing the same as Chainalysis making the picture even more uglyis capable [color=red]to serve the poisoned RingCT decoys to the unsu...