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PinkDate: https://pinkdate.is - A new site to connect escorts and clients, streamlining things while increasing safety through verification. Uses cryptocurrencies for some aspects of payments (and also cash!), but is not a tech company (boring stack). We have a real business model and being an extrajurisdictional company allows us to operate effectively where others can't.
Interested? We're pre-launch but email us at info@pinkdate.is. Or join our Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/pinkapp/shared_invite/enQtMjQ0NjI2MDM0ODY1LWJhMGQ5ZTY4ZjRmODFlMTRlYWU3NDUwYWMzMDA1MGVlZGE1NThlN2ZjMWE2NGYxODRmNmY2NTg1YWI2MWM0YTk
How will we stay online? Read an overview of our server opsec: https://medium.com/@PinkDate/pink-app-trading-latency-for-anonymity-and-other-techniques-815ee21c6da4
I will look up the complaints about Tor. I apologize for my tone and do not mean to speak ill of the Monero team. I still choose Monero and feel it has the best benefits overall.
If they do not meet our bar then they will not be able to join for now. Over time we will increase our methods to verify escorts. If we feel someone is not operating under their own agency we will disable their account.…
>and the remaining 5% are also vulnerable to things like warrants at the exchange and timing attacks I was under the impression that no exchanges handle shielded transactions. What do you mean by timing? I would assume…
Private-by-default is semi-dishonest. Many tx on Monero are owned by a few entities that are friendly with LE or may get hacked. Thus all those exchange tx or payment gateway tx that are on the blockchain are in…
On 2: Monero is almost the same. ShapeShift does 7-15% of all tx at least. How many transactions are actually private after you consider hacks or LE warrants? Those TX are what you depend on to get false spends. On 3:…
Because the decoy selection is not part of protocol not everyone is doing it. Some exchanges have increased ringsize but kept old selection system. Not to mention that exchanges make up a large bulk of Monero TX and…
Trusted setup only compromises the supply integrity not privacy. I am not a fan of Zooko or the Green comments on backdoors and LE but do not misrepresent trusted setup.
>This was a well-known design choice where the user could balance between transaction size and privacy--people who preferred faster/cheaper transactions chose to sacrifice untraceability. Nowadays, the default option…
Monero has some real issues! These papers are OK but I am not sure if they focus on current practical issues: Main issue: Ringsize is small. Used to be 3 [why??] got bumped to 5 because 3 is obviously useless. Now…
We cannot launch our project too soon [details in profile]. We will do what we can to prevent trafficking: asking for ID and verifying they have an escorting presence is a good start. Analytics to look at payment flow…
From what I remember, those rely on some older aspects of Monero no longer present. But more importantly, they do not provide positive guidance on exactly how much mixing [churn] with what ring-sizes are needed to…
That is almost certainly how many people will view it, and is the reason why we are set-up as an extrajurisdictional company: it will make enforcement very difficult.
https://PinkDate.is | Extrajurisdictional | REMOTE | Monero Security Analyst & Engineer | Contract Work PinkDate is an extrajurisdictional company that will dramatically improve the escorting [sex work] industry. We…
It certainly is a possibility. I am acutely aware of it every day. It is incredibly high stress. That is why our core team desires to hire people to run the business day-to-day, so we minimize our exposure online and…
Do not change my words. I am not pretending algorithmic magic will prevent sex trafficking. I am saying that, to the best of our abilities, we will ban it from our platform. At least for underage trafficking, by…
We have consulted with lawyers. None of them are going to give the go-ahead on this project. Quote from one of them: There is no such things as extrajurisdictional, unless you're on the moon. My reply: If our opsec is…
>really We issue dividends which is more than you can say about SNAP.
More than that, our business is not legal in the US which is one of our primary markets.
How so? I am aware that if our opsec fails, a creative prosecutor will have no shortage of options to go after me with. It won't shut down the operation because a successor will restore from backups and move on. But it…
This. At my company, we want a way to show investors our actual revenue numbers in an auditable manner, trustless. This is because we are extrajurisdictional and have high opsec concerns and cannot simply hire an…
We facilitate sex work, yes. We do not support trafficking, we verify IDs first, and we will use pattern recognition to detect trafficking/pimps and ban them from our platform. This is not perfect, but it is a great…
They would need to break our opsec, at which point a civil suit is the least of my concerns.
A company is a group of people operating together. That is what our company is. We are not incorporated in any jurisdiction.
It is completely disgusting. We started by calling our ICO an IPO and making a note that we are selling shares, not tokens. But people still want to see a whitepaper and hear about tokens. And despite clearly saying we…
This is why we are not launching our ICO until after we have a working service. We are raising some money in a pre-ICO (Series A) but given the scams, we felt it was best to deliver before going public. Of course, we…