And what is easier to take down, a website or a decentralized network of nodes?
Haveno is literally just a .exe you run. Looks like he wants a DEX with NO setup.
Just use Haveno to buy XMR directly, way cheaper and quicker than dealing with bisq and BTC transactions.
A little off-topic but I guess proton called Monero a shitcoin so it's a little tiny bit on topic ;)
Well, many of the exploited ones are already gone.
Partially. For the Monero blockchain itself this is basically it but the spam also enabled them to withdraw funds ($300k) from darknet markets multiple times in a row, since their withdrawal systems didn't account for transactions being this delayed.
I was wrong, I didn't consider that their attack could drain badly coded DNM wallets by double-spending withdraw transactions.
Yeah sorry, I had not considered draining market wallets as an option. Thanks for the pentest, it greatly pushed FCMPs and high-throughput research forward!
They made money through extortion, not by draining any wallets due to spam. There was spam and it did delay transactions for regular users due to existing wallet bugs that are now fixed. I can't really comment on badly coded markets, I assume they somehow broke their payment systems because they didn't account for long delays when receiving coins or also had the fee selection bug.
This attack highlighted several issues that have been addressed. The biggest issue was wallets not automatically raising the default fee which led to transactions getting stuck for hours. Without the bug, you would have paid 2 cents instead of 0.5 for a transaction and it would have been confirmed at regular speed.
Reto has been working pretty well for me. Sure, startup can take a while but I've heard they are migrating all the seednodes to tor pow which should help with the ddos attacks.