ICEBREAKER, long time no see! Maybe you could help me with a little problem I'm having:
Dash De-anonymization ContestIcebreaker and other trolleros:
I have donated $1 to Monero's development team. I sent 0.25 Dash (TX ID: 59d51690d4b56ddbf1e393fa8d3a49bcfc3247f270f36be3b6ee411802666cba-000) to shapeshift.io, which converted it to Bitcoin and sent it to the official Monero donation address listed at
https://getmonero.org/getting-started/donate/.
I challenge you to de-anonymize this transaction. To make it just a little easier, I only used four rounds of Darksend, so it's exponentially less private than it would be with the maximum eight rounds.
Please tell me what address this transaction originated from.
Cheers!
Glad to help.
The source of your "little problem" is that the token $1 bug bounty is insultingly low.
It's almost like you're trying to discourage bug bounty hunters. Is there a reason you want them to Leave Dash Alone?
ShadowCash, for all its other faults, did offer and pay out a substantial reward to Shen, the guy from Monero Research Labs that found a huge problem with their bad crypto.
If you want a comparable current case, 5 BTC is the going rate for the kind of hyper-specialized meticulous research Dash needs in order to fix its bad crypto.
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/48y9lm/dr_nicolas_t_courtois_who_spoke_positvely_about/If Dash can spend thousands of dollars for a soda machine, why can't it offer competitive rates for penetration testing?
Are you expecting highly-educated people to do such detailed, challenging work for free, or would you prefer it not be done at all?