Quote from: GazetaBitcoin on November 05, 2023, 04:38:08 PM

What happened during previous Court orders? Did you present there? Did you come with a lawyer...? Did a lawyer go there in your name...? Care to share more details about what happened in the previous situations?
Similar, now... are you going to user a lawyer's services for this order?

Answering all your questions would reveal some business details containing information that should remain off-the-record at least till the current subpoena is cleared. However, I would gladly answer your questions via private E2EE communication channels.

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on November 06, 2023, 05:02:53 PM

I'm curious as to what's the motive behind adding RUNE? Are you planning to implement Thorchain for cross-chain trading for all pairs? or just RUNE ones? I also want to know, if you're going to use Thorchain directly, or simply use Thorswap?

We consider Thorchain's native token (RUNE) a reliable coin since its network brings a lot of benefits to the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Recently we have launched an experimental feature of ETH/BTC swaps via the Avalanche Bridge, since we had some requests from users who have volumetric ETH/BTC swap requirements that eXch couldn't satisfy and since the Avalanche's Bridge can only be used from a privacy-hostile app called 'Core', we have enabled this optional functionality for them to provide 'rails' that automate the whole process of swapping between native BTC and ETH via Avalanche Bridge. During the development of that feature, we have found out that the Avalanche Bridge is far from being decentralized and that their nodes responsible for bridging BTC and ETH are closed-source and are fully controlled by Ava Labs. We have found that Ava Labs have implemented AML screening (https://medium.com/@AvaLabsOfficial/updates-to-the-avalanche-bridge-dc0d33b1b475) in their BTC and ETH bridging mechanisms that are used to selectively stop certain coins from bridging in order to confiscate these funds (or traditionally speaking - to scam their users). We have also found that they have already confiscated 85 BTC from someone without returning it (https://forum.avax.network/t/why-i-use-core-bridge-has-been-sent-btc-but-i-didnt-received-my-btc-b/1157/3) and out of curiosity reached that victim and chatted with them about this, confirming that their 85 BTC are still being held by Ava Labs without any reason. After creating a disposable Discord account just for research purposes since such communities reside there, we have found that there are more victims who lost their funds to Ava Labs selective scamming. This made us wonder whether providing Avalanche Bridge on our service was a good decision and afterwards found out that their AML screening mechanisms do not affect amounts below 5 BTC, which we have implemented as a limit for these. However, later we have found that there is another network that provides native BTC/ETH swaps with considerable liquidity - Thorchain. After a rigorous research performed by us, we have concluded that it's truly decentralized and makes Avalanche Bridge obsolete, since Thorchain's native swap functionality makes part of the network consensus and its code is fully open-source. We have since decided to replace the Avalanche Bridge rails we provide with Thorchain which will be released this week. We have also found Thorchain useful to rebalance our own liquidity when needed without relying on unsafe and unreliable Web3 ecosystem and codebase that is constantly exposed to dependency supply chain attacks. We will also support stablecoins (USDT, DAI and USDC) on Thorchain, since there were multiple requests from our users to support these tokens on other networks and we have finally found the optimal alternative network for these.

Please note that Thorswap doesn't make part of Thorchain at all and as it's just a privacy-hostile frontend for Thorchain, thus, eXch could be used as an alternative frontend to Thorswap (however, for now, limited only to the coins and tokens that we support).

Quote from: dkbit98 on November 06, 2023, 09:00:43 PM

Maybe, unless you have some weak link and leaks from inside your team Wink

I hope nearly impossible is good enough, since we know you are facing powers with unlimited financial sources on the other side.

Our opsec is much better than Bestmixer's, Chipmixer's or Whirlwind's altogether and we haven't made any mistakes in our opsec any close to such were made by them, apparently from the beginning of their existence, as some court data and other events revealed about some of them afterwards. eXch is run by people specializing in infosec since around 2000 that are also cypherpunk culture adepts that follow military-grade standards and guidance to protect their projects digitally and physically, therefore, it's very unlikely that our platform will be smashed due to rookie mistakes similar happened to the platforms I mentioned and some others I didn't. There is always a lot to learn from every privacy-oriented service shutdown (including darknet markets) and we are certainly not next.