I had some clients still using Sage/Peachtree 2013. Why? Because it worked and they had no problems with it. For years Sage was trying to get them to upgrade to a newer version or their subscription plan and they kept refusing. Eventually Sage started shutting down their licensing servers. Even if you purchased a perpetual license, if you ever needed to do a new install, there was no server available to validate the license and you'd be stuck on a "trial version" that only let you open "x" times before it no longer let you use it all. I'm sure there are work-arounds but it's still extortion at its finest.

In other news...Bitmain will soon be selling their ETH ASIC for a guestimate of $20k-$30k USD and estimated daily profit of $335/day, which will essentially be a brick. Bitmain wins again! I feel sorry for anyone that's dumb enough to pre-order one.

If Monero, it's possible through heuristic attacks and there are already forensic tools that aid in tracking it to some extent. The ability to trace usually relies on an arrest or slip up with moving to an exchange or other service with KYC. zk-snarks based cryptos like Zcash, Pirate, Komodo, etc. sent with z-addresses would be fairly difficult. I'd imagine more criminals will start using Pirate since it only allows use of z-addresses and by default, where other Equihash coins are transparent by default.

I worked briefly with Fosco years prior to him working at Facebook. His code then was a hack job piece-mealed from Stack Overflow posts. I fixed numerous XSS and SQL injection issues with his code back then, and not surprisingly, he was simply not paid for the work and then whined like a girl. It should be no surprise that Gab has little to no idea of all the code behind Mastodon and the hacks they are introducing to it in attempts to "improve performance" because they have no real hosting infrastructure at Epik and are just grifting for Bitcoin. Pretty much everything they claim to have built from scratch in-house is just a forked existing open source solution they have bastardized and ran a search/replace on. They don't even want to give Mastodon devs any credit. All of the open source projects they've forked for no real purpose other than to claim it as their own seem to hate them equally.