21 Sep 2024 [services] [culture]

Gingeropolous to shut down controversial node.moneroworld.com 'in the coming days'

Gingeropolous1 has announced plans2 to retire the controversial3 node.moneroworld.com4 public remote node proxy service in the aftermath of the Chainalysis leak5:

I’ll keep my ports open for a bit longer, but the domain won’t resolve to any IP addresses relatively soon.

Consult the associated Github issue6 to learn more about this story.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.


  1. https://github.com/Gingeropolous 

  2. https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/1fm2ahi/ 

  3. https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/1f9h7rw/, https://libera.monerologs.net/monero/20240917, https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1079#issuecomment-2364545347 

  4. [!blacklist] moneroworld.com, node.moneroworld.com 

  5. /monerotalk-articmine-interview-xmr-chainalysis-video/ 

  6. https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1079