19 Feb 2025 [research] [CCS]

Rucknium completes second milestone for statistical research CCS proposal

Rucknium1 has completed2 the second milestone for their latest CCS proposal to conduct statistical research to improve Monero’s privacy3:

I have completed Milestone 2. [..] With @Boog900, investigated the empirical privacy impact of suspected spy nodes and organized a public campaign to urge Monero node operators to ban suspected spy nodes from connecting to their nodes.4

Work overview

Read the complete progress report on Gitlab2.

Consult the previous Monero Observer report10 to learn more about the project.


  1. https://github.com/Rucknium/ 

  2. https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/439#note_28789  2

  3. https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/Rucknium-Statistical-Research.html 

  4. https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/126#issuecomment-2460261864, https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/1124 

  5. https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Peer-Subnet-Deduplication/pdf/monero-peer-subnet-deduplication.pdf 

  6. https://github.com/cypherstack/churn/issues/2 

  7. https://rucknium.github.io/xmrpeers/reference/index.html 

  8. https://gist.github.com/Rucknium/48dd80d52c26ab461035e4da5b1e5230 

  9. https://gist.github.com/Rucknium/784b243d75184333144a92b3258788f6 

  10. /rucknium-submits-ccs-proposal-statistical-research-improve-monero-privacy/