Monero Observer

Monero Observer Blitz #47 - October 2025

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this October in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.4.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released with enhanced protection against spy nodes (1)
MyMonero announced plans to shut down on January 6 2026 (2)
XT started delisting all XMR ‘financial products’ on October 31 2025 (3)

R&D

The Monero Research Lab held 5 meetings in October (4,5,6,7,8)
There were also 4 Monero Tech and 2 Cuprate meetings (9,10,11,12,13,14)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for September 2025 (15)
r4v3r23 completed the Anonero v1.0 rewrite CCS (16)
acx released Monfluo v0.9.1 (17)
Cuprate v0.0.7 ‘Molybdenite’ was released (18)
j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 381 hours of dev work (19)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet & Monero.com versions 5.5.0-5.5.2 with Trezor support (20,21,22)
woodser released ‘monero-cpp’ v0.8.16, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.39 & ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.6 (23)
atsamd21 released Haveno Android app versions 0.4.11.0 & 0.4.12.0 (24,25)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.4.0 (26)
ajs-xmr released XMRpos v1.0 & v1.1 (27,28)
MAGIC Grants was getting ready to release ‘Skylight Wallet’ (29)
felipebrunet released Monero Point of Sale app v1.0.4 (30)
freigeist-m released Monero Multisig GUI v0.1.1 (31)

Funding

jpthor submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into THORChain (32)
Boog900’s ‘Cuprate’ CCS was moved to the funding stage (33)
4rkal cancelled their ‘MoneroOS’ CCS proposal (34)
redsh4de submitted a CCS proposal to implement the planned Getmonero.org redesign (35)
perfect-daemon submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work (36)

Culture

Three Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 4th, 11th & 25th (37,38,39)
MoneroTopia 2026 conference was scheduled to take place February 12-15 in Mexico City (40)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero Issues #248-249 (41,42)
Monero Talk interviewed THORChain co-founder ‘jpthor’ and part of the CypherStack team (43,44)
recanman proposed organizing MoneroKon 2026 in Serbia (45)
John Foss published ‘The Monero Moon’ Issue #82 (46)

Community Messages (5/27)

[LFF] Revuo Monero Maintenance (2025 Q4) (47)
[ANN] MRL: Post-quantum encryption (48)
[ANN] This Week In Monero #8: 16 Oct 2025 - 23 Oct 2025 (49)
[ANN] getmonero.org Should Move Beyond Cloudflare (50)
[ANN] MyMonero Is Closing Its Doors — Here’s How to Migrate Safely (51)

My personal contributions

+58/+27 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+14 Meeting logs
+17 Calendar events
+3/-4 Resources

Daily
- published 58 Monero Observer Reports (52) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (53))
- updated Changelog (54) and XMR Stats (55)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 27 Community Messages and 17 Calendar events (56,57), added 3 new Resources and removed 4 items (58,59)
- uploaded 14 meeting logs: MRL 251001, MRL 251008, MRL 251015, MRL 251022, MRL 251029, Community 251004, Community 251011, Community 251025, Tech 251006, Tech 251013, Tech 251020, Tech 251027, Cuprate 251021, Cuprate 251028 (60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73)
- created the Monero Observer Lounge (74)
- extended PGP key expiry date (1y) (75)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 40-43, 2025) (76,77,78,79)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 40-43, 2025) (80,81,82,83)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #46 (September 2025) (84)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 47th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: You can support my continued work by contributing to the Monero Observer 2026 funding campaign. Thanks!

Monero Observer Blitz #46 - September 2025

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this September in the Monero community:

Breaking

DataHoarder published a timeline of the historical Monero 18-block reorg from September 14 2025 (1)
Monero Konferenco 2026 was cancelled: ‘this is not the end of Monerokon’ (2)
Testers wanted: FCMP++/Carrot alpha stressnet v1 was released (3)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in September (4,5,6,7)
The Monero Tech workgroup held 5 meetings (8,9,10,11,12)
BawdyAnarchist created ‘Monero PoW Simulator’ (13)
SyntheticBird45 completed their Cuprate dev work CCS (14)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet version 5.4.0-5.4.2 (15,16)
SChernykh released P2Pool version 4.10-4.11 (17,18)
d4ndox released ‘Monero Named Pipes’ v0.1.5-0.1.6 (19,20)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for July 2025 (21)
kivirnz created a Gupax P2Pool statistics tool (22)
j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 202 hours of dev work (23)
ki9 created the ‘karmine’ script to counter the selfish mining threat (24)
woodser released haveno-ts v0.0.38-0.0.39 and Haveno v1.2.1-1.2.2 with ‘reorg protections’ and native ARM64 support (25,26,27
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx v1.11.6/1.11.7 (28)
tevador proposed the ‘Share or Perish’ selfish mining mitigation (29)

Funding

Boog900 completed their latest Cuprate dev work CCS and submitted a new proposal (30,31)
rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain ‘Revuo Monero’ in Q4 2025 (32)
selsta’s September-November 2025 Monero dev work CCS was funded (33)
kayabaNerve’s ‘finality layer’ book CCS was moved to the funding stage (34)
acx submitted a CCS proposal to maintain the Monfluo XMR wallet in Q4 2025 (35)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 6th & 20th (36,37)
There were also three MoneroKon 6 Meetings in September (38,39,40)
CypherGoat published ‘This Week In Monero’ Issues #2-3 (41,42)
Monero Talk interviewed Monero Matteo (43)

Community Messages (5/32)

[ANN] MT #361: If It Isn’t PoW, It Isn’t Decentralized w/ Dr. K (44)
[ANN] Monero community input needed: Temporary rolling DNS checkpoints (45)
[WTS] Telegram and Discord (new) premium/nitro subscriptions for BTC/LTC/XMR (46)
[ANN] Monero’s 18-block reorg: What happened, why it matters, and what does it have to do with the annoying 10 block lock? (47)
[ANN] Edge x Let’s Exchange Monero Mayhem: Winner Takes All (48)

My personal contributions

+51/+32 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+14 Meeting logs
+15 Calendar events
+4/-4 Resources

Daily
- published 51 Monero Observer Reports (49) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (50))
- updated Changelog (51) and XMR Stats (52)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 32 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (53,54), added 4 new Resources and removed 4 items (55,56)
- uploaded 14 meeting logs: MRL 250903, MRL 250910, MRL 250917, MRL 250924, Community 250906, Community 250920, Tech 250901, Tech 250908, Tech 250915, Tech 250922, Tech 250929, MK6 250906, MK6 250913, MK6 250920 (57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 36-39, 2025) (71,72,73,74)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 36-39, 2025) (75,76,77,78)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #45 (August 2025) (79)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 46th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #45 - August 2025

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this August in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.4.2 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released with a privacy leak fix (1)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in August (2,3,4,5)
The Cuprate and Monero Tech workgroups also held 4 meetings each (6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13)
woodser released haveno-ts v0.0.37, monero-java v0.8.38 (14,15)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet version 5.2.0, 5.3.0 (16,17)
acx released Monfluo v0.8.1 (18)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.3.2 (19)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for July 2025 (20)
d4ndox released ‘Monero Named Pipes’ v0.1.3, 0.1.4 (21,22)
SChernykh released P2Pool version 4.9.1 (23)
binarybaron and einliterflashche completed their XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS (24)
everoddandeven released ‘Monero Daemon GUI’ v1.3.0/1.3.1 (25)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx v1.11.0-1.11.2 (26)

Funding

j-berman completed his CCS and submitted a new proposal for 4 months of FCMP++ and Seraphis dev work (27)
acx, Gingeropolous, rottenwheel, Rucknium, vtnerd CCS proposals were fully funded (28)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal to continue Carrot/FCMP++ dev work in Q3 2025 (29)
jhonreb submitted a CCS proposal to build the ‘MoneroSwap.ai’ platform, which was closed (30)
kayabaNerve submitted a CCS proposal to write a ‘finality layer’ book (31)
v1docq47 submitted a CCS proposal for 6 months of Russian voice-over and transcription work (32)
jeffro256, j-berman, hinto-janai CCS proposals were moved to funding stage (33)
selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of November 2025 (34)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 9th & 23rd (35,36)
There were also five MoneroKon 6 Meetings in August (37,38,39,40,41)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero Issues #245-246 (42,43)

Community Messages (5/29)

[ANN] Monero Under Attack - MONERO MONTHLY 08 (44)
[ANN] FCMP++ Optimization Competition Results (45)
[ANN] Monero Re-org & Qubic (46)
[ANN] Edge launches Everyday Anon campaign: Privacy for everyone (47)
[ANN] MRL: Selfish mining mitigations (Publish or Perish) (48)

My personal contributions

+54/+29 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+5 Dev/Art reports
+17 Meeting logs
+19 Calendar events
+3/+2 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 54 Monero Observer Reports (49) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (50))
- updated Changelog (51) and XMR Stats (52)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 29 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (53,54), added 3 new Resources and 2 new Blacklist items (55,56)
- uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 250806, MRL 250813, MRL 250820, MRL 250827, Community 250809, Community 250823, Cuprate 250805, Cuprate 250812, Cuprate 250826, Tech 250804, Tech 250811, Tech 250818, Tech 250825, MK6 250809, MK6 250816, MK6 250823, MK6 250830 (57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 31-35, 2025) (74,75,76,77,78)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 31-35, 2025) (79,80,81,82,83)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #44 (July 2025) (84)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 45th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #44 - July 2025

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this July in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.4.1 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released (1)
MajesticBank exchange shut down: ‘every good thing has an end’ (2)

R&D

The Monero Research Lab and Cuprate workgroups held 5 meetings each (3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12)
There were also 4 Monero Tech workgroup meetings in July (13,14,15,16)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for June 2025 (17)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet version 5.1.2 (18)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for May 2025 (19)
j-berman posted a third CCS progress report after 501 hours of dev work (20)
Cuprate version 0.0.5 ‘Molybdenite’ was released (21)
UnstoppableSwap rebranded to ‘eigenwallet’, GUI version 3.0.0-beta was released (22)
P2Pool introduced reproducible builds with the v4.9 release (23)
Rucknium completed their statistical research CCS (24)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.3.1 (25)
Haveno v1.2.0 ‘mandatory update’ was released with improvements, fixes (26)

Funding

vtnerd submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work in Q3 2025 (27)
freespirit-14 submitted a CCS proposal to create a Monero multisig wallet GUI, then canceled it (28)
4rkal submitted a CCS proposal to rebuild MoneroOS (29)
hbs submitted a CCS proposal for EVM-based Monero atomic swaps dev work (30)
everoddandeven submitted a CCS proposal for Monero Python library maintenance (31)
Rucknium submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero statistical research (32)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 12th & 26th (33,34)
There were also two MoneroKon 5/6 Meetings in July (35,36)
plowsof posted a progress report for their sixth CCS coordinator term (37)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero Issues #242-244 (38,39,40)

Community Messages (5/32)

[ANN] Traceability Truth Hurts - MONERO MONTHLY 07 (by Ungovernable Misfits) (41)
[ANN] Cypher Stack Livestreamed Research Meeting (by Diego) (42)
[ANN] Guardarian have announced that they will be delisting Monero (by LivBoss) (43)
[ANN] Qubic Monero Hashpower Share (by Rucknium) (44)
[ANN] MT #358: Merged Mining and Proof of Useful Work - Security Implications for Monero. W/ Francisco Cabanas (by MoneroTalk) (45)

My personal contributions

+50/+32 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17 Meeting logs
+19 Calendar events
+5/-2 Resources

Daily
- published 50 Monero Observer Reports (46) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (47))
- updated Changelog (48) and XMR Stats (49)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 32 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (50,51), added 5 new Resources and removed 2 items (52)
- uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 250702, MRL 250709, MRL 250716, MRL 250723, MRL 250730, Community 250712, Community 250726, Cuprate 250701, Cuprate 250708, Cuprate 250715, Cuprate 250722, Cuprate 250729, Tech 250707, Tech 250714, Tech 250721, Tech 250728, MK6 250726 (53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 27-30, 2025) (70,71,72,73)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 27-30, 2025) (74,75,76,77)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #43 (June 2025) (78)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 44th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #43 - June 2025

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this June in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero Konferenco 5 took place in Prague on June 20-22 (1)
OpenMonero was hacked, reported ‘all funds stolen’ (2)

R&D

There were four Monero Research Lab meetings in June (3,4,5,6)
The Monero Tech and Cuprate workgroups also held 4 meetings each (7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)
valldrac released Monero Wallet SDK for Android v1.0.0 (15)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for April 2025 (16)
everoddandeven released Monero Python Library v0.0.1-alpha (17)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.2.2 (17)
XMRig v6.22.3/6.24.0, XMRig Proxy v6.24.0 were released with improved IPv6 support (18,19)
Cuprate version 0.0.4 ‘Molybdenite’ was released (20)
Haveno v1.1.2 was released with major UI changes (21)
nahuhh released basicswap-bash v0.14.5 (22)
woodser released haveno-ts v0.0.36, monero-cpp v0.8.14, monero-java v0.8.37, monero-ts v0.11.4 (23,24)
ditatompel released xmr-remote-nodes v0.2.2 (25)
UnstoppableSwap GUI 2.0.0 was released with a ‘breaking protocol change’ (26)
P2Pool versions 4.8/4.8.1 were released with security fixes (27)
binarybaron postsed a fifth progress report for the XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS (28)
Deverickapollo and napoly posted the first progress report for the BTCPay Server Monero plugin CCS (29)
j-berman posted a second CCS progress report after 325 hours of Monero/Seraphis dev work (30)
Monerujo v4.1.7 was released with fixes, translations update (31)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v5.1.0/5.1.1 with experimental support for embedded Tor (32)
UkoeHB posted the first progress report for their Seraphis CCS (33)

Funding

selsta submited a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until end of August 2025, which was fully funded (34)
MoneroKon proposed a bounty for a XMRpos remote backend (35)
Gingeropolous submitted a CCS proposal to create a Monero ‘network simulation tool’ (36)
BobbyBullRun submitted a CCS proposal to produce and promote a ‘Monero-themed’ anthem, which was closed (37)
hinto-janai completed their CCS, submitted a new proposal for 3 months of full-time Cuprate, FCMP++ work (38,39)
acx submitted a CCS proposal to continue developing the Monfluo XMR wallet for 3 months (40)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 7th & 21st (41,42)
There were also 2 final MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in June (43,44)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero Issue #240 (45)
Monero Talk interviewed CypherStack founder Diego Salazar on the status of FCMP++ (46)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for April-May 2025 (47)

Community Messages (5/32)

[ANN] P2P Markets Exploding - MONERO MONTHLY 06 (by Ungovernable Misfits) (48)
[ANN] MAGIC Grants: Monero FCMP++ audit report (by SamsungGalaxyPlayer) (49)
[ANN] XMRPC v0.3.0-beta released (by fullmetalScience) (50)
[ANN] [Live] MoneroTopia at Porcfest 2025! (by MoneroTopia) (51)
[LFF] [60 XMR] Support XmrBazaar’s Mission to Grow the Monero Circular Economy (by chowbungaman) (52)

My personal contributions

+59/+32 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+4 Dev/Art reports
+13 Meeting logs
+15 Calendar events
+2/+4 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 59 Monero Observer Reports (53) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (54))
- updated Changelog (55) and XMR Stats (56)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 32 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (57,58), added 2 new Resources and 4 Blacklist items (59,60)
- uploaded 13 meeting logs: MRL 250604, MRL 250611, MRL 250618, MRL 250625, Community 250607, Community 250621, Cuprate 250603, Cuprate 250610, Cuprate 250617, Cuprate 250621, Tech 250602, Tech 250609, Tech 250616, Tech 250630 (61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 22-26, 2025) (75,76,77,78,79)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 23-26, 2025) (80,81,82,83)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #42 (May 2025) (84)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 43rd edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #42 - May 2025

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this May in the Monero community:

Breaking

fluffypony’s ‘Tari’ went live on mainnet after almost 8 years of work (1)

R&D

There were four Monero Research Lab meetings in May (2,3,4,5)
The Monero Tech and Cuprate workgroups also held 4 meetings each (6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for April 2025 (14)
SChernykh released P2Pool v4.5 & 4.6/4.7 with support for Tari merge mining donations and ‘Nano’ sidechain (15,16,17)
hinto-janai released Gupax v1.3.11, Cuprate v0.0.3, and posted a CCS progress report (18,19,20)
binarybaron posted a fourth progress report for their XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS (21)
Gupaxx added support for the new P2Pool ‘Nano’ sidechain (22)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet & Monero.com v4.28.0 & 5.0.0/5.0.1 (23,24)
SyntheticBird45 posted their first progress report for the Cuprate/Arti CCS (25)
j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 199 hours of dev work (26)
0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for January 2025 (27)
acx posted a second progress report for the Monfluo CCS (28)
MrCyjaneK completed their Unnamed Monero Wallet CCS (29)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.2.0 (30)
Boog900 completed the third milestone for their Cuprate CCS (31)

Funding

atsamd21 proposed a bounty for adding missing payment methods to the Haveno daemon (32)
wikig submitted a CCS proposal to create Telegram XMR wallet ‘Moneropen’, then closed it due to lack of support (33)
gnuteardrops was seeking funding to maintain Monero Graphics until 2027 (34)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 10th & 24th (35,36)
There were 5 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in May (37,38,39,40,41)
John Foss published The Monero Moon issues #78-81 (42,43,44,45)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #236-239 (46,47,48,49)

Community Messages (5/38)

[ANN] Working on a new Monero P2P swap – would love early feedback (by Ok-Selection-639) (50)
[ANN] MT #350: Tari Mainnet is Live (by MoneroTalk) (51)
[LFF] [Bounty] Add Duress PIN Feature To Stack Wallet (by AnonXMRLover) (52)
[LTT] No KYC crypto-to-crypto exchange service (by Trêvoid) (53)
[ANN] Phishers Target Monero Users (by ditatompel) (54)

My personal contributions

+58/+38 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+5 Dev/Art reports
+15 Meeting logs
+19 Calendar events
+7/-2 Resources

Daily
- published 58 Monero Observer Reports (55) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (56))
- updated Changelog (57) and XMR Stats (58)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 38 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (59,60), added 7 new Resources and removed 2 (61)
- uploaded 15 meeting logs: MRL 250507, MRL 250514, MRL 250521, MRL 250528, Community 250510, Community 250524, Cuprate 250506, Cuprate 250513, Cuprate 250520, Cuprate 250527, Tech 250505, Tech 250512, Tech 250519, Tech 250526, MoneroKon25 250503 (62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2025) (77,78,79,80)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 18-22, 2025) (81,82,83,84,85)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #41 (April 2025) (86)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 42nd edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #41 - April 2025

Thu, 01 May 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this April in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.4.0 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released (X)
Exodus was planning to end XMR support on August 10 2025 (X)
eXch instant exchange was getting ready to shut down on May 1 2025 (X)
XMR registered a 4-year high of $329 after a ~40% surge (X)
Monero Market announced plans to close down on May 14 2025 (X)

R&D

The Monero Research Lab and Cuprate workgroups held 5 meetings each (X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X)
There were also 4 Monero Tech meetings in April (X,X,X,X)
mainnet-pat released XMR-BCH atomic swap web app ‘AxeSwap’ (X)
sukunetsiz released the ‘complete version’ of Monero marketplace script ‘Kabus’ (X)
Cake Labs kicked off the Cake Wallet rebrand, released v4.25.0-4.27.0 (X,X,X)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for March 2025 (X)
acx released Monfluo v0.7.0, posted a CCS progress report (X,X)
hinto-janai released Cuprate v0.0.2, posted a CCS progress report (X,X)
atsamd21 started developing a standalone Haveno mobile app (X)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.1.11 (X)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx v1.9.0-1.9.1 (X)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.8.1 (X)
woodser released Haveno versions 1.0.19/1.1.0/1.1.1 and ‘haveno-ts’ v0.0.34 (X,X,X,X)
Tech1k created a Monero node dashboard tool (X)

Funding

NorrinRadd submitted a CCS proposal to develop a Haveno iOS, Android ‘application’ (X)
tobtoht submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Feather Wallet and Monero core dev work, which was fully funded (X)
j-berman completed his CCS and submitted a new proposal for 4 months of Monero/FCMP++ and Seraphis dev work, which was fully funded (X,X)
openENet submitted a 30K XMR CCS proposal to build the ‘MoneroSpace’ satellite network, which was closed (X)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal to continue Monero/Carrot dev work in Q2 2025, which was immediately funded (X)
napoly’s and spirobel’s CCS proposals were moved to the funding stage (X)
Jackie submitted a CCS proposal to create Monero videos in Chinese (X)

Culture

Monero celebrated its 11th anniversary on the 18th (X)
plowsof was considering dropping their ‘CCS Coordinator’ role after the fifth term (X)
Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 12th & 26th (X,X)
There were 3 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in April (X,X,X)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #234 & #235 (X,X)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for February-March 2025 (X)

Community Messages (5/22)

[ANN] New Frontiers - MONERO MONTHLY 04 (by Ungovernable Misfits) (X)
[ANN] OSPEAD - Optimal Ring Signature Research (by Rucknium) (X)
[ANN] MT #348: Celebrating Monero’s Birthday with some Cake (by MoneroTalk) (X)
[ANN] FCMP++ Optimization Competition [350 XMR] (by j-berman) (X)
[LTH] Hiring Monero Fuzzing Harness Developer (by ACK-J) (X)

My personal contributions

+64/+22 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17 Meeting logs
+18 Calendar events
+2/-1 Resources

Daily
- published 64 Monero Observer Reports (X) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (X))
- updated Changelog (X) and XMR Stats (X)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 22 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (X,X), added 2 new Resources and removed 1 (X)
- uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 250402, MRL 250409, MRL 250416, MRL 250423, Community 250412, Community 250426, Cuprate 250401, Cuprate 250408, Cuprate 250415, Cuprate 250422, Cuprate 250429, Tech 250407, Tech 250414, Tech 250421, Tech 250428, MoneroKon25 250405, MoneroKon25 250426 (X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 14-17, 2025) (X,X,X,X)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 14-17, 2025) (X,X,X,X)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #40 (March 2025) (X)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 41st edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #40 - March 2025

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this March in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.4.0 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was tagged (1)

R&D

The Monero Research Lab and Cuprate workgroups held 4 meetings each (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
There were also 5 Monero Tech meetings in March (10,11,12,13,14)
SChernykh released P2Pool v4.4 (15)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.23.3/4.24.0 and Monero.com v1.20.3/1.21.0 (16,17)
everoddandeven released ‘Monero Daemon GUI’ v1.2.0 (18)
John-Doggett released ‘Monerod Node Setup Scripts’ v0.4.0 (19)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for February 2025 (20)
Cuprate first alpha (v0.0.1 ‘Molybdenite’) was released after ~12 months of paid development (21)
ditatompel released ‘xmr-remote-nodes’ v0.2.1 (22)
j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 497 hours of dev work (23)
r4v3r23 completed the second milestone for the ANONERO CCS (24)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for February 2025 (25)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.8.0 (26)

Funding

acx submitted a CCS proposal to develop and maintain ‘Monfluo’, which was overfunded (27)
plowsof submitted a proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator until the end of June 2025, which was fully funded (28)
rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain Revuo Monero in Q2 2025, which was fully funded (29)
selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of May 2025, which was fully funded (30)
b4n6_b4n6 and not-a-money-printer proposed bounties to make Monero GUI, RetoSwap, UnstoppableSwap ‘Whonix friendly’ (31)
N1co1asB1ancon1 submitted a CCS proposal to develop and release ‘Monero Contract System’ v1, which was later closed (32)
SyntheticBird45 submitted a CCS proposal to implement native Tor support into Cuprate through Arti, which was fully funded (33)
Anon proposed a bounty for restoring Bisq’s ‘auto-confirm’ feature for Haveno (34)

Culture

Three Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 1st, 15th & 29th (35,36,37)
There were 5 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in March (38,39,40,41,42)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #229-233 (43,44,45,46,47)

Community Messages (5/39)

[ANN] Monero Konferenco 2025: Call for Presentations! (by monerobull) (48)
[ANN] Public audit of XMR reserves on April 18th - MoneroRun (by MoneroFox) (49)
[ANN] MoneroTop - Spasm-powered XMR forum (by MoneroTop) (50)
[WTS] [0.14 XMR] Notesnook Pro (by edisondotme) (51)
[ANN] MT #345: Growing our Monero Family w/ XMRfamily (by MoneroTalk) (52)

My personal contributions

+59/+39 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+5 Dev/Art reports
+19 Meeting logs
+21 Calendar events
+5 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 59 Monero Observer Reports (53) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (54))
- updated Changelog (55) and XMR Stats (56)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 39 Community Messages and 21 Calendar events (57,58), added 5 new Resources (59)
- uploaded 19 meeting logs: MRL 250305, MRL 250312, MRL 250319, MRL 250326, Community 250301, Community 250315, Community 250329, Cuprate 250304, Cuprate 250311, Cuprate 250318, Cuprate 250325, Tech 250303, Tech 250310, Tech 250317, Tech 250324, Tech 250331, MoneroKon25 250301, MoneroKon25 250308, MoneroKon25 250329 (60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 9-13, 2025) (79,80,81,82,83)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 9-13, 2025) (84,85,86,87,88)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #39 (February 2025) (89)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 40th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #39 - February 2025

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:

Breaking

binaryFate published a long overdue February 2025 Monero General Fund transparency report (1)
Rucknium publicly released all OSPEAD-related documents and code after 3+ years of research (2)

R&D

There were four Monero Research Lab meetings in February (3,4,5,6)
The Monero Tech and Cuprate workgroups also held 4 meetings each (7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)
tobtoht posted a Monero/Feather dev report for January 2025 (15)
m2049r released Monerujo v4.1.6 with Exolix fixes (16)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.8.0-1.8.2 (17)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for January 2025 (18)
woodser released ‘monero-cpp’ v0.8.13, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.36, and ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.3 (19)
acx released the first beta for Mysu Wallet fork ‘Monfluo’ (20)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for January 2025 (21)
Rucknium completed the second milestone for statistical research CCS (23)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.23.2 and Monero.com v1.20.2 (24)
j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 368 hours of Monero/FCMP++ dev work (25)

Funding

SNeedlewoods submitted a CCS proposal for ~4.5 months of part-time Monero dev work (26)
jeffro256, rottenwheel, SNeedlewoods CCS proposals were fully funded (27,28)
hinto-janai submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Cuprate, Monero/FCMP++ work, which was moved to the funding stage (29)
Boog900 submitted a CCS proposal for 4 months of full-time Cuprate dev work, which was moved to the funding stage (30)
FiatDemise’s ‘XMRChat’ CCS proposal was overfunded (31)
vtnerd submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work, which was moved to the funding stage (32)
hbs submitted a CCS proposal to partially fund MoneroKon 2025 (33)
spirobel submitted a CCS proposal to develop Monero Payment Links, Browser Wallet, and a multisig companion app (34)
Walletverse submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into their ‘community-driven crypto wallet’ (35)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 1st & 15th (36,37)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in February (38,39,40,41)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #225-228 (42,43,44,45)
John Foss published The Monero Moon issues #76 & #77 (46,47)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for December 2024 - January 2025 (48)
plowsof posted a second progress report for their fifth CCS coordinator term (49)

Community Messages (5/24)

[ANN] Monero’s dominance in OrangeFren.com search stats (by OrangeFren) (50)
[ANN] Shutting down xmr.volt-mine.com (by Volt-Mine) (51)
[ANN] LocalMonero Clone (openmonero) is now open source (by OpenMonero) (52)
[ANN] CVE-2025-26819: Public XMR nodes should update to ‘release-v0.18’ branch until 0.18.4.0 is out (very soon) (by anon) (53)
[ANN] MT #341: Is Monero keeping Bitcoin’s Cypherpunk dream alive? With Boaz Sobrado (by MoneroTalk) (54)

My personal contributions

+57/+24 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+18/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+18 Calendar events
+3/0 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 57 Monero Observer Reports (55) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (56))
- updated Changelog (57) and XMR Stats (58)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 24 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (59,60), added 3 new Resources (61)
- published a meeting summary (62) and uploaded 18 meeting logs: MRL 250205, MRL 250212, MRL 250219, MRL 250226, Community 250201, Community 250215, Cuprate 250204, Cuprate 250211, Cuprate 250218, Cuprate 250225, Tech 250203, Tech 250210, Tech 250217, Tech 250224, MoneroKon25 250201, MoneroKon25 250208, MoneroKon25 250215, MoneroKon25 250222 (63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 5-8, 2025) (81,82,83,84)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 5-8, 2025) (85,86,87,88)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #38 (January 2025) (89)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 39th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #38 - January 2025

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this January in the Monero community:

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in January (1,2,3,4,5)
The Monero Tech and Cuprate workgroups held 4 meetings each (6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.7.0-1.7.2 (14)
everoddandeven released Monero Daemon GUI v1.1.0 (15)
Boog900 completed their latest Cuprate dev work CCS (16)
woodser released Haveno v1.0.18, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.34, and ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.2 (17,18)
sukunetsiz created a Monero marketplace script, Kabus (19)
selsta posted a December 2024 Monero dev report (20)
Rucknium completed the second milestone for their OSPEAD CCS (21)
ofrnxmr completed the third milestone for their BasicSwapDEX CCS (22)
binarybaron posted a third progress report for their XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS (23)
j-berman posted a CCS progress report after 169 hours of Monero/FCMP++ dev work (24)
antichainalysis created a Monero ‘churner’ tool, moneroc (25)
Cake Wallet added XMR/WOW passphrase restore support in v4.23.0-RC (26)
selsta posted a to-do list for the upcoming Monero v0.18.4.0 release (27)

Funding

everoddandeven proposed a bounty for a monero-cpp Python bindings module (28)
0xFFFC, j-berman, tobtoht CCS proposals were fully funded (29)
napoly, deverickapollo submitted a CCS proposal to develop a Monero plugin for BTCPay Server 2.0 (30)
jeffro256 completed their 2024 Q4 CCS and submitted a new proposal for 3 months of Monero/Carrot dev work (31,32)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 4th & 18th (33,34)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in January (35,36,37,38)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #223 and 224 (39,40)
An anonymous contributor donated ~23 XMR to the Monero General Fund (41)

Community Messages (5/29)

[ANN] [CCS] Draft: New years resolutions (by plowsof) (42)
[ANN] Happy 7th Birthday to PiNodeXMR (by shermand100) (43)
[ANN] El Monero is looking for active Spanish community members (by rottenwheel) (44)
[ANN] Attacks on onion monero nodes with HSDirSniper (by jackintosh157) (45)
[ANN] Ross Ulbricht Pardoned (by Groundbreaking_Put39) (46)

My personal contributions

+50/+29 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+19 Meeting logs
+20 Calendar events
0/+2 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 50 Monero Observer Reports (47) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (48))
- updated Changelog (49) and XMR Stats (50)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 29 Community Messages and 20 Calendar events (51,52), added 2 new Blacklist items (53)
- uploaded 19 meeting logs: MRL 250101, MRL 250108, MRL 250115, MRL 250122, MRL 250129, Community 250104, Community 250118, Cuprate 250107, Cuprate 250114, Cuprate 250121, Cuprate 250128, Tech 250106, Tech 250113, Tech 250120, Tech 250127, MoneroKon25 250104, MoneroKon25 250111, MoneroKon25 250118, MoneroKon25 250125 (54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 1-4, 2025) (73,74,75,76)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 1-4, 2025) (77,78,79,80)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #37 (December 2024) (81)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

Update: added missing Cuprate meetings reference.

That’s it for the 38th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #37 - December 2024

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:

Breaking

Brandon Goodell concluded that Generalized Bulletproofs are ‘suitable for use’ after reviewing security proofs (1)
XMR registered a 2.5-year high of $218 after a ~31% surge at the beginning of the month (2)
Rucknium discovered a critical privacy vulnerability in Wownero’s decoy selection algorithm (3)
Haveno added support for buying XMR without security deposits (4)
Gate.io dropped Monero ETF markets and delisted the XMRUSDT perpetual contract (5)

R&D

There were 3 Monero Research Lab meetings in December (6,7,8)
The Monero Tech workgroup held 5 meetings (9,10,11,12,13)
Three Cuprate meetings also took place this month (14,15,16)
SNeedlewoods completed their first part-time Monero dev work CCS (17)
vtnerd completed their 2024 Q3 Monero dev work CCS (18)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.1.9, Stack Duo v1.2.4 (19)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.5.4 (20)
Cake Wallet added ‘full support’ for XMR hardware wallets via Ledger (21)
woodser released ‘haveno-ts’ v0.0.31 & v0.0.32 (22,23)
0xFFFC posted a November-December 2024 Monero dev report (24)
hinto-janai completed their Cuprate RPC handlers CCS (25)
P2Pool v4.3 was released with initial sync improvements (26)

Funding

Kewbit posted a second ‘Haveno App’ CCS progress report amidst growing criticism (27)
b4n6_b4n6 proposed two bounties for Stack Wallet bug fixes (28)
FiatDemise submitted a CCS proposal to retroactively fund the XMRChat project (29)
fullmetalScience submitted a CCS proposal for the NoShore project (30)
j-berman completed his CCS and submitted a new proposal for 4 months of Monero dev work (31,32)
v1docq47’s December-May 2025 CCS proposal was moved to the funding stage (33)
0xFFFC submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work (34)
anon1337 proposed a bounty for a ‘haveno-ts’ Dart port (35)
tobtoht submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Feather Wallet and Monero core dev work (36)
4rkal submitted a CCS proposal to develop and release ‘dmvp2p’ v1 (37)
Dadybayo submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into Unstoppable Wallet (38)
rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain Revuo Monero in Q1 2025 (39)
nisaba proposed a bounty for a PrestaShop XMR ‘payment integration’, which was declined (40)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 7th & 21st (41,42)
There were 3 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in December (43,44,45)
BasedMoney Collective launched the Monerochan memecoin to ‘promote’ Monero (46)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #220-222 (47,48,49)
Cake Wallet partnered with Foundation to develop the ‘first 3rd-party app’ for Passport Prime (50)
The Monero Moon newsletter made a comeback with Issue #75 after a short hiatus (51)

Community Messages (5/26)

[ANN] RandomX 5 Year Anniversary (by Gingeropolous) (52)
[ANN] MRL recommendation: Ban spy node IP addresses from connecting to your node (by Rucknium) (53)
[ANN] MAGIC Monero Fund 2025 Election (by SamsungGalaxyPlayer) (54)
[ANN] Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography (by SyntheticBird45) (55)
[WTS] [$120+] ‘Fire The Empire’ artwork (by SIDARTA0) (56)

My personal contributions

+62/+26 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+4 Dev/Art reports
+16 Meeting logs
+18 Calendar events
+2/0 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 62 Monero Observer Reports (57) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (58))
- updated Changelog (59) and XMR Stats (60)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 26 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (61,62), added 2 new Resources (63)
- uploaded 16 meeting logs: MRL 241204, MRL 241211, MRL 241218, Community 241207, Community 241221, Cuprate 241203, Cuprate 241210, Cuprate 241217, Tech 241209, Tech 241216, Tech 241223, Tech 241230, MoneroKon25 241207, MoneroKon25 241214, MoneroKon25 241228 (64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 48-52, 2024) (79,80,81,82,83)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 49-52, 2024) (84,85,86,87)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #36 (November 2024) (88)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 37th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #36 - November 2024

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this November in the Monero community:

Breaking

LocalMonero/AgoraDesk closed down on November 7th (1)
The MoneroTopia 2024 conference took place in Mexico City on November 14-17 (2)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in November (3,4,5,6)
Four Cuprate meetings also took place this month (7,8,9,10)
The Monero Tech workgroup held 3 meetings (11,12,13)
SChernykh released P2Pool v4.2 with new features, bugfixes (14)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.5.2 & 1.5.3 (15)
everoddandeven released ‘monerod-gui’ v0.1.2-rc and v1.0.0-1.0.2 ‘Tenacity’ (16,17,18)
Monerujo v4.1.2 was released with support for Exolix exchange (19)
XMRig v6.22.2 was released (20)
hinto-janai completed the third milestone for the Cuprate CCS, released Gupax v1.3.10 (21,22)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Carrot dev update for September-October (23)
nahuhh released ‘basicswap-bash’ v0.14.1 (24)
woodser released Haveno v1.0.13/1.0.14 with support for Tether, fixes and improvements (25,26)
j-berman posted a progress report after 379 hours of Monero dev work (27)
0xFFFC posted a Monero dev update for October-November (28)
binarybaron posted a second progress report for their XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS, released a ‘full rewrite’ of the UnstoppableSwap GUI (29,30)
Cake Labs introduced new Cupcake companion app with release of Cake Wallet v4.21.0-4.21.2, Monero.com v1.18.0-1.18.2 (31,32)
Stack Wallet added support for XMR view-only wallets and ‘churn options’ (33)
4rkal created a XMR ‘micro-tipping’ tool for P2Pool mini miners (34)
ofrnxmr completed the second milestone for their BasicSwapDEX CCS (35)

Funding

VostoEmisio’s animated videos CCS proposal was fully funded (36)
BenraouaneSoufiane submitted two CCS proposals to launch an ‘email marketing campaign’ for CryptoCheckout and ‘extend’ the project (37,38)
geonic submitted a CCS proposal for a MoneroTopia 2024 marketing campaign, which was fully funded (39)
Gingeropolous submitted a CCS proposal to upgrade their ‘Monero Research Computing’ cluster, which was approved for funding (40)
v1docq47 submitted a CCS proposal for 6 months of Russian voice-over and transcription work (41)
DiosDelRayo’s ‘XmrSigner’ offline signing library CCS was fully funded (42)
kayabaNerve submitted a CCS to get ‘monero-serai’, ‘monero-wallet’ libraries audited by CypherStack, which was fully funded (43)
plowsof posted a progress report for their fifth CCS coordinator term (44)
selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of February 2025 (45)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 9th & 23rd (46,47)
There were 3 MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meetings in November (48,49,50)
The Aloha Project launched a new Haveno mainnet instance with zero fees (51)
Unstoppable Domains introduced personalized .XMR onchain domains (52)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #216-219 (53,54,55)
Haveno Reto completed its ‘RetoSwap’ rebrand with a new website launch (56)

Community Messages (5/32)

[ANN] Sigmanero.org is closing down Monday 11th November (by sigmanero_org) (57)
[ANN] Monero Remote Node Monitoring project updates (by ditatompel) (58)
[ANN] MoneroKon Assembly @ 38th Chaos Communication Congress 27-30 Dec 2024 in Hamburg, Germany (by ajs_) (59)
[LFF] Support Revuo Monero, the audience-funded newsletter (by rottenwheel) (60)
[LTH] Dev with Dart/flutter or rust experience (by Diego) (61)

My personal contributions

+70/+32 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+5 Dev/Art reports
+16 Meeting logs
+17 Calendar events
+1/0 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 70 Monero Observer Reports (62) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (63))
- updated Changelog (64) and XMR Stats (65)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 32 Community Messages and 17 Calendar events (66,67), added 1 new Resource (68)
- uploaded 16 meeting logs: MRL 241106, MRL 241113, MRL 241120, MRL 241127, Community 241109, Community 241123, Cuprate 241105, Cuprate 241112, Cuprate 241119, Cuprate 241126, Tech 241104, Tech 241118, Tech 241125 (69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 44-47, 2024) (82,83,84,85)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 44-48, 2024) (86,87,88,89,90)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #35 (October 2024) (91)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 36th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #35 - October 2024

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this October in the Monero community:

Breaking

Kraken delisted XMR in EEA on October 31 due to MiCA ‘regulatory changes’ (1)
RINO was planning to close down on October 31 2024 after 2+ years of operation (2)
Bit2Me announced plans to delist XMR on October 31 2024 (3)
Consensus: Getmonero.org to switch to Astro with fresh design by rehrar (4)

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in October (5,6,7,8,9)
Five Cuprate meetings also took place this month (10,11,12,13,14)
The Monero Tech workgroup held 4 meetings (15,16,17,18)
ki9 started working on an XMR price API with data from Bisq and Haveno-reto (19)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.5.0 & 1.5.1 with monerod integration (20,21)
selsta posted Monero dev reports for September and October 2024 (22,23)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.1.7 and Stack Duo v1.2.3 (24)
BrandyJSon released Feather Atomic v1.2 (25)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.7.0 (26)
vtnerd posted a Monero dev report for September 2024 (27)
Rucknium completed the first milestone for their statistical research CCS (28)
woodser released Haveno v1.0.12 with various fixes and improvements (29)
Kewbit posted the first progress report for their Haveno App CCS (30)
binarybaron posted the first progress report for their XMR-BTC atomic swaps CCS (31)
j-berman posted a progress report after 195 hours of Monero dev work (32)
ErikASD created a XMR payment processor that uses a PGP login system (33)
m2049r released Monerujo v4.0.8 ‘Sidekick’ (34)
ofrnxmr completed the first milestone for their BasicSwapDEX CCS (35)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.20.0/4.20.1 and Monero.com v1.17.0 (36)
XMRig v6.22.1 was released with bug fixes and improvements (37)
everoddandeven released ‘monerod-gui’ v0.1.1-rc (38)
Rucknium reviewed CypherStack’s ‘Uniformly Most Powerful Tests for Ad Hoc Transactions in Monero’ paper (39)
m-a-x-c created a Monero churn timing tool (40)
Boog900 posted a second progress report for their latest Cuprate CCS (41)

Funding

SimplifiedPrivacy submitted a CCS proposal to create a ‘Carrot’ animated video (42)
HardenedSteel’s and spirobel’s CCS proposals were fully funded (43)
SNeedlewoods submitted a CCS proposal for 1 month of part-time Monero dev work, which was immediately overfunded (44)
midipoet submitted a CCS proposal for ‘policy and regulatory framework’ research, which was apparently funded by ‘a private entity’ (45)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal to get ‘Carrot’ reviewed by CypherStack, which was fully funded (46)
Kewbit posted a bounty for fixing the MoneroWHMCS payment gateway (47)
mainnet-pat submitted a CCS proposal to complete the XMR-BCH atomic swaps project, which was fully funded by PUP (48)
MoneroKon proposed a bounty for a Monero POS Android app (49)
DiosDelRayo’s offline signing library CCS proposal was moved to the funding stage (50)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 12th & 26th (51,52)
The Monero Website Workgroup held a meeting on the 27th (53)
pluja launched an experimental ‘AI-driven’ weekly Monero podcast (54)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #212-215 (55,56,57,58)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for August-September 2024 (59)
wiefix announced the launch of Bitrica ‘P2P platform’ with support for XMR and BTC (60)

Community Messages (5/35)

[ANN] [CVE-2024-9680] Update Tor Browser & Firefox immediately (by anon) (61)
[ANN] I am attemping to reboot Breaking Monero (by lordx3nu) (62)
[ANN] FCMP++ Hard Fork Planning: Discussion Welcomed (by jeffro256) (63)
[ANN] Malicious node IPs discovered (by Ammortel) (64)
[LFF] [$255] My 3 months of server hosting is open for donations (by Rucknium) (65)

My personal contributions

+70/+35 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17 Meeting logs
+17 Calendar events
+9/-1 Resources

Daily
- published 70 Monero Observer Reports (66) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (67))
- updated Changelog (68) and XMR Stats (69)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 35 Community Messages and 17 Calendar events (70,71), added 9 new Resources and removed one item (72)
- uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 241002, MRL 2401009, MRL 241016, MRL 241023, MRL 241030, Community 241012, Community 241026, Cuprate 241001, Cuprate 241008, Cuprate 241015, Cuprate 241022, Cuprate 241029, Website 241027, Tech 241007, Tech 241014, Tech 241021, Tech 241028 (73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 40-43, 2024) (90,91,92,93)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 40-43, 2024) (94,95,96,97)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #34 (September 2024) (98)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
anon group PUP for being the #1 donor to the MO 2025 independent funding campaign
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the amazing designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 35th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #34 - September 2024

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this September in the Monero community:

Breaking

Gingeropolous announced plans to shut down the controversial ‘node.moneroworld.com’ service (1)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in September (2,3,4,5)
The Monero Tech workgroup held five meetings (6,7,8,9,10)
Four Cuprate meetings also took place this month (11,12,13,14)
woodser released Haveno v1.0.11 with various fixes and improvements (15)
Boog900 posted the first progress report for their latest Cuprate CCS (16)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.1.5 (17)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for August 2024 (18)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.4.1 & 1.4.2 (19,20)
Im-Beast released Monero TUI v1.0.0-alpha (21)
jeffro256 completeted their 2024 Q3 Monero dev work CCS (22)
woodser released ‘monero-cpp’ v0.8.12, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.33 and ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.0 (23)
KewbitXMR released Haveno Plus v0.0.1 (24)
MMGen Wallet v15.0.0 was released with ‘full’ macOS support (25)
Monerujo announced the first official release of its Sidekick companion app (26)
binarybaron released UnstoppableSwap GUI v0.6.4 (27)
DiosDelRayo completed their XmrSigner CCS (28)
0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for September 2024 (29)
SChernykh released P2Pool v4.1.1 (30)

Funding

rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain Revuo Monero in Q4 2024, which was fully funded (31)
spirobel submitted a CCS proposal to build a ‘robust and modular’ wallet-rpc library (32)
HardenedSteel submitted CCS proposal for 2 months of part-time Getmonero.org work (33)
plowsof submitted a proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator until the end of November 2024, which was moved to the funding stage (34)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of dev work on Monero’s ‘Carrot’ addressing protocol, which was moved to the funding stage (35)
Feather Wallet launched a bug bounty program (36)
Anons proposed bounties for a XMR-BCH atomic swaps wallet plugin, Mysu maintenance, Getmonero.org redesign, Monerujo translation issues, and a CLI wallet tool for split transactions (37,38,39,40,41)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 14th & 28th (42,43)
The Monero Website Workgroup also held two meetings in September (44,45)
plowsof completed their fourth term as CCS coordinator (46)
XMR was the most used crypto on Coincards in August 2024 (47)
John Foss published The Monero Moon issue #74 (48)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #209-211 (49,50,51)
Monero Talk interviewed ArticMine and Rafael LaVerde (52,53)
AlexAnarcho interviewed Monero Talk host Douglas Tuman (54)

Community Messages (5/25)

[ANN] TownForge’s new testnet has just started for those interested (by plowsof) (55)
[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund recently got two grant/fundraising applications (by Rucknium) (56)
[ANN] [Video] How to install Haveno (by MoneroMavrick) (57)
[ANN] Exit the Road to Serfdom with Monero (by Douglas_McSqueaky) (58)
[ANN] Complete RandomX implementation in JavaScript (by slimeyl1mey) (59)

My personal contributions

+61/+25 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+17 Calendar events
+4/+2 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 61 Monero Observer Reports (60) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (61))
- updated Changelog (62) and XMR Stats (63)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 25 Community Messages and 17 Calendar events (64,65), added 4 new Resources and 2 new Blacklist items (66,67)
- published a meeting summary (68) and uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 240904, MRL 240911, MRL 240918, MRL 240925, Community 240914, Community 240928, Cuprate 240903, Cuprate 240910, Cuprate 240917, Cuprate 240924, Website 240908, Website 240922, Tech 240902, Tech 240909, Tech 240916, Tech 240923, Tech 240930 (69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 35-39, 2024) (86,87,88,89,90)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 36-39, 2024) (91,92,93,94)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #33 (August 2024) (95)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 34th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #33 - August 2024

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this August in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.3.4 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released (1)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in August (2,3,4,5)
A Monero Development Workgroup meeting was organized on the 12th (6)
Two Monero Tech meetings took place on the 19th & 26th (7,8)
Four Cuprate meetings also took place this month (9,10,11,12)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held a meeting on the 12th (13)
Stack Wallet v2.1.4 was released with support for QR code scanning on the desktop app (14)
Haveno v1.0.10 was released with Tor PoW defense support for seed nodes (15)
Rucknium released Monero Stressnet Node v251.18.3.3.0 in preparation for the August 10 testnet hardfork (16)
jeffro256 posted a Monero dev report for July 2024 (17)
XMRig and XMRig Proxy v6.22.0 were released with improvements and fixes (18)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.19.2-4.19.5 and Monero.com v1.16.2-1.16.5 (19,20,21)
DiosDelRayo completed the third milestone for their XmrSigner CCS (22)
SChernykh released P2Pool v4.1 with new features and various bug fixes (23)
valldrac posted a second progress report for the Monero Wallet SDK CCS (24)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.6.8 (25)
woodser released ‘monero-ts’ v0.10.0/0.10.1, ‘monero-cpp’ v0.8.11, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.32 (26,27,28)
j-berman completed his latest CCS after 545+ hours of Monero and Seraphis dev work (29)
0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for July 2024 (30)
vtnerd posted a CCS progress report after 160 hours of Monero dev work (31)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx version 1.4.0 (32)
MrCyjaneK completed the second milestone for their Unnamed Monero Wallet CCS (33)

Funding

276.01 XMR was donated from the GF to four CCS proposals: 0xFFFC, tobtoht, hinto-janai, j-berman (34)
ofrnxmr submitted a CCS proposal to maintain the monero-site and monero-docs repositories, which was moved to the funding stage (35)
selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of October 2024, which was fully funded (36)
hinto-janai submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time work on Cuprate’s RPC handlers, which was moved to the funding stage (37)
VostoEmisio’s animated videos CCS proposal was moved to the funding stage (38)
ofrnxmr’s BasicSwapDEX CCS proposal was fully funded (39)
0xFFFC submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of November 2024, which was moved to the funding stage (40)
Ripcord47 proposed a bounty for Garnet maintenance (41)
binarybaron’s XMR-BTC atomic swaps development CCS proposal was moved to the funding stage (42)
Kewbit submitted a CCS proposal to continue developing the Haveno Plus multi-platform app (43)
j-berman submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero and Seraphis dev work, which was fully funded (44)
tobtoht submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Feather Wallet and Monero dev work, which was fully funded (45)
DiosDelRayo submitted a CCS proposal to modularize the Monero codebase, then closed it in favor of a new proposal to create an offline signing library for XmrSigner (46,47)
plowsof posted a bounty for enabling testnet fast sync on the Monero stressnet (48)

Culture

Four Community Workgroup Meetings took place in August (49,50,51,52)
The Monero Website Workgroup held a meeting on the 18th (53,54)
Monero tipping platform XMRChat went live (55)
Monero Talk interviewed investigative journalist Derrick Broze (56)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #205-208 (57,58,59,60)
Sethforprivacy announced plans to join Cake Labs as ‘VP of Operations’ (61)
John Foss published The Monero Moon issues #72 & #73 (62,63)
rehrar posted the first progress report for his Monero ‘non-dev’ work CCS (64)

Community Messages (5/24)

[ANN] TownForge testnet to restart on 1st September with Proof Of Settlement (by plowsof) (65)
[ANN] The Stressnet So Far (by spackleXMR) (66)
[ANN] [Final report] Veridise divisor report review (by rehrar) (67)
[LFF] [70 XMR] Build a more robust wallet rpc and document it on monerochan.cash (by spirobel) (68)
[WTS] Telegram premium, 3/6/12 months sent to you as gift for XMR equivalent in fiat + commission to be agreed upon beforehand. (by rottenwheel) (69)

My personal contributions

+77/+24 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+5 Dev/Art reports
+16/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+18 Calendar events
+3/+2 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 77 Monero Observer Reports (70) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (71))
- updated Changelog (72) and XMR Stats (73)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 24 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (74,75), added 3 new Resources and 2 new Blacklist items (76,77)
- published a meeting summary (78) and uploaded 16 meeting logs: MRL 240807, MRL 240814, MRL 240821, MRL 240828, Community 240810, Community 240817, Community 240824, Community 240831, Seraphis 240805, Cuprate 240806, Cuprate 240813, Cuprate 240820, Cuprate 240827, Website 240818, Tech 240819, Tech 240826 (79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 31-34, 2024) (95,96,97,98)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 31-35, 2024) (99,100,101,102,103)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #32 (July 2024) (104)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 33rd edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: thanks for 3 years of reading and supporting MO, cheers!

Monero Observer Blitz #32 - July 2024

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this July in the Monero community:

Breaking

XMR #1 on ‘Coincards’, ‘ShopinBit’ in June 2024 (1,2)
Nanopool was briefly in control of ~46% of the total Monero network hashrate (3)
AntiDarknet collective claimed responsibility for the suspected Monero spam attack (4)

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in July (5,6,7,8,9)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 5 meetings (10,11,12,13,14)
Five Cuprate meetings took place this month (15,16,17,18,19)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for June 2024 (20)
j-berman posted a progress report after 350 hours of Monero dev work (21)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Seraphis dev report for June 2024 (22)
0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for June 2024 (23)
binarybaron released UnstoppableSwap GUI v0.6.2/0.6.3 (24,25)
woodser released ‘monero-ts’ v0.9.9 (26)
busyboredom released the initial version of ‘AcceptXMR-Server’ (27)
Cake Labs released ‘Cake Wallet’ v4.19.0/4.19.1 and ‘Monero.com’ v1.16.0/1.16.1 with support for Wownero (28,29)
hinto-janai released ‘Gupax’ v1.3.9 (30)
rehrar released ‘Stack Wallet’ v2.1.2/2.1.3 (31,32)
MMGen Wallet v14.1.0 was released with new Monero features (33)
COMIT ‘xmr-btc-swap’ versions 0.13.3/0.13.4 were released (34,35)
MrCyjaneK posted two progress reports for their ‘Unnamed Monero Wallet’ proposal, completing the first CCS milestone (36,37)
Haveno v1.0.9 was released with various fixes and improvements (38)
Cyrix126 released ‘Gupaxx’ version 1.3.0 (39)
spackle-xmr released ‘Monero Stressnet Node’ v250.18.3.3.3 (40)
DiosDelRayo completed the second milestone for their CCS and released ‘XmrSigner’ v0.6 (41,42)

Funding

geonic submitted a CCS proposal nominating monerobull for leadership posts in Monero Community and Website Workgroups, which was closed (43)
VostoEmisio submitted CCS proposals to create FCMPs and Monero animated videos (44)
rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain the ‘official’ Monero website for 3 months, which was closed (45)
Boog900’s ‘Cuprate’ CCS proposal was fully funded (46)
ki9 submitted a CCS proposal to develop Monero payment gateway ‘Pago’, then closed it (47)
monerobull submitted a CCS proposal to maintain the Monero Website Workgroup, which was fully funded (48)
Eneez proposed a bounty for a XMR P2P Telegram bot (49)
binarybaron and einliterflasche submitted a CCS proposal to ‘transform’ the XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem into a ‘mature marketplace’ (50)
yamabiiko submitted a CCS proposal for 2 months of full-time ‘Cuprate’ dev work (51)
vtnerd submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work, which was fully funded (52)
b4n6_b4n6 proposed a bounty for improved ‘monerod’ docs (53)
Anon proposed a bounty for ‘Haveno’ UI fixes (54)
rehrar’s Monero ‘non-dev’ work CCS proposal was fully funded (55)
HardenedSteel submited their first CCS proposal for 1 month of part-time Getmonero.org work (56)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 6th & 20th (57,58)
The Monero Website Workgroup started holding ‘regularly scheduled’ meetings again (59)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #201-204 (60,61,62,63)
John Foss published The Monero Moon issues #70 & #71 (64,65)
Keystone hardware wallet confirmed plans for XMR integration in ‘2-3 months’ (66)
Monero Talk interviewed Libertarian VP candidate Mike ter Maat (67)

Community Messages (5/26)

[AFH] Programmer & Sysadmin (by recanman) (68)
[ANN] Time4VPS compromised, FixedFloat was the target (by anon) (69)
[ANN] [CCS] Límite: All in all, our film went to 17 festivals and received 6 awards. (by geonic) (70)
[LFF] Monerica is down and needs help (by blario) (71)
[LTT] Exchange XMR to cash in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria without KYC (by candymarkets) (72)

My personal contributions

+77/+26 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+18 Meeting logs
+18 Calendar events
+5 Resources

Daily
- published 77 Monero Observer Reports (73) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (74))
- updated Changelog (75) and XMR Stats (76)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 26 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (77,78), added 5 new Resources (79)
- uploaded 18 meeting logs: MRL 240703, MRL 240710, MRL 240717, MRL 240724, MRL 240731, Community 240706, Community 240720, Seraphis 240701, Seraphis 240708, Seraphis 240715, Seraphis 240722, Seraphis 240729, Cuprate 240702, Cuprate 240709, Cuprate 240716, Cuprate 240723, Cuprate 240730, Website 240728 (80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 27-30, 2024) (98,99,100,101)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 27-30, 2024) (102,103,104,105)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #31 (June 2024) (106)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers, supporters, and the generous Q3 CCS donor
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 32nd edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: thanks for your continued support - the MO Q3 CCS got funded in ~48hrs!

Monero Observer Blitz #31 - June 2024

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this June in the Monero community:

Breaking

P2Pool hardfork was scheduled for October 12th 2024 at 20:00 UTC (1)
Trocador was struggling to contain ‘non-stop DDoS attacks’ (2)
spackle-xmr published the first progress report for the Monero ‘Stressnet’ project (3)
The fourth edition of Monero Konferenco took place in Prague on June 7-9 (4)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in June (5,6,7,8)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 3 meetings (9,10,11)
Four Cuprate meetings took place this month (12,13,14,15)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for May 2024 (16)
woodser released ‘monero-java’ v0.8.28-0.8.31 (17,18)
hinto-janai completed the first milestone for their ‘Cuprate’ CCS proposal (19)
nahuhh released ‘basicswap-bash’ v0.13.2-dev/0.13.4-master (20,21)
Haveno v1.0.7/1.0.8 were released with support for Tails and various payment methods (22,23)
MrCyjaneK posted a third progress report for their ‘Unnamed Monero Wallet’ CCS proposal (24)
Cake Labs released ‘Cake Wallet’ v4.18.2 with support for ‘Cake Pay’ (25)
COMIT ‘xmr-btc-swap’ version 0.13.1 was released (26)
fullmetalScience released TradeOgre terminal interface ‘OGRE’ v0.1.0 (27)
spackle-xmr, Rucknium released ‘Monero Stressnet Node’ v250.18.3.3.1-250.18.3.3.2 (28,29)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Seraphis dev report for May 2024 (30)
rehrar released ‘Stack Wallet’ v2.1.0/2.1.1 with support for Polyseed, Tor (31,32)
Boog900 completed the first three milestones for their ‘Cuprate’ CCS proposal (33)
0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for May 2024 (34)
binarybaron released UnstoppableSwap GUI v0.6.1/0.6.2 (35)
DiosDelRayo completed the first milestone for their CCS and released ‘XmrSigner’ v0.4 (36,37)
Cyrix126 released ‘Gupaxx’ version 1.2.0 with support for ‘Xmrig-Proxy’ (38)

Funding

PrivacyOG proposed a bounty for building a Haveno DEX Android app (39)
rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain ‘Revuo Monero’ for 3 months, which was fully funded (40)
v1docq47’s June-Novemeber 2024 CCS proposal was fully funded (41)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work, which was fully funded (42,43)
Anon proposed bounties for ‘Lnp2pBot’ and ‘RoboSats’ forks based on Monero (44)
Boog900 submitted a CCS proposal to continue working full time on ‘Cuprate’ for 3 months (45)
rehrar submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero ‘non-dev’ work (46)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 8th & 22nd (47,48)
plowsof posted a progress report for their fourth CCS coordinator term (49)
New Monero knowledge aggregator project ‘LIBERECO’ beta went live (50)
John Foss published The Monero Moon issues #68 & #69 (51,52)
Cuprate, MIC, Spoke and Walletudo won the first ever Monero hackathon (53)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #198-200 (54,55,56)
ditatompel open sourced the code for their ‘Public Monero Remote Nodes’ aggregator website (57)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for April-May 2024 (58)
umbrelOS added support for Monero (59)

Community Messages (5/41)

[ANN] [CCS] [Video] VOSTOEMISIO - RandomX (by VostoEmisio) (60)
[ANN] Moner.ooo: new Feature for Office (Excel, Calc) (by luke) (61)
[ANN] I just created a Monero imageboard (monero.land) (by monero_lover) (62)
[LFF] [70 XMR] Continued work on Monerochan.news and Monerochan.cash (by spirobel) (63)
[LFF] [6.5 XMR] Revuo Monero code enhancements and rebranding. Please consider chipping in! (by rottenwheel) (64)

My personal contributions

+72/+41 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+5 Dev/Art reports
+11/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+15 Calendar events
+11/+2 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 72 Monero Observer Reports (65) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (66))
- updated Changelog (67) and XMR Stats (68)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 41 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (69,70), added 11 new Resources and 2 new Blacklist items (71,72)
- published Meeting summary MRL 240619 (73) and uploaded 11 meeting logs: MRL 240605, MRL 240612, MRL 240619, MRL 240626, Community 240608, Community 240622, Seraphis 240603, Seraphis 240617, Seraphis 240624, Cuprate 240604, Cuprate 240625 (74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 22-26, 2024) (85,86,87,88,89)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 22-26, 2024) (90,91,92,93,94)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #30 (May 2024) (95)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool designs
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 31st edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #30 - May 2024

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this May in the Monero community:

Breaking

LocalMonero/AgoraDesk announced plans to shut down on November 7 2024 due to ‘internal and external factors’ (1)
Kraken announced plans to discontinue XMR support in Germany on July 10 2024 (2)
Monero remote nodes were temporarily overloaded due to ‘dozens of large 150-input transactions’ (3)
Rucknium: ‘raising the ring size is a more cost-effective strategy against a black marble attack than raising fees’ (4)
HardenedSteel and retoaccess1 were first to experiment with public Haveno networks on Monero’s mainnet (5)
tobtoht stopped maintaining XMRGuide.org (6)

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in May (7,8,10,11,12)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 4 meetings (13,14,15,16)
Four Cuprate meetings took place this month (17,18,19,20)
0xFFFC completed their first Monero dev work CCS proposal (21)
Justin Berman completed his CCS after 480 hours of Monero and Seraphis dev work and posted a progress report for his new proposal (22,23)
Haveno versions 1.0.3-1.0.6 were released with improved trade protocol ‘resilience’, fixes and improvements (24,25,26)
Cake Labs released multiple Cake Wallet/Monero.com versions with support for Ledger and also a Windows 10/11 beta build starting with 4.18.0 (27,28,29,30)
hinto-janai released Gupax v1.3.7/1.3.8 with bugfixes and remote node changes (31,32)
jeffro256 posted a Monero/Seraphis dev report for April 2024 (33)
MrCyjaneK posted the first progress report for their Unnamed Monero Wallet CCS proposal (34)
Stack Wallet exited beta with the v2.0.0 release after ~1.6 years of development (35)
BrandyJSon started working on a Feather Wallet fork with built-in COMIT XMR-BTC atomic swaps (36)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx v1.1.1 with fixes and updates (37)
woodser released monero-java v0.8.27 (38)
COMIT ‘xmr-btc-swap’ v0.13.0 was released with improvements and updates (39)

Funding

selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until the end of July 2024, which was fully funded (40,41)
Justin Berman submitted a new CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero and Seraphis dev work, which was fully funded (42,43)
eyedeekay submitted a CCS proposal to ‘redesign and modernize’ Monero I2P support (44)
hinto-janai submitted a CCS proposal to continue working full-time on Cuprate for 3 months, which was fully funded (45,46)
ofrnxmr submitted a new CCS proposal to ‘empower and steward BasicSwapDex to production quality software’ (47)
v1docq47 submitted a CCS proposal for 6 months of Russian voice-over and transcription work, which was moved to the funding stage (48,49)
baldeagle submitted a CCS proposal to ‘create and manage’ a Matrix room for P2P XMR trading (50)
rohanrhu submitted a CCS proposal to work full-time on the PokerUnicorn Infrastructure Project (51)
fengzie submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into the Mobazha marketplace (52)
FreeRoss submitted a proposal to develop a new CCS platform (53)
DiosDelRayo submitted a CCS proposal to ‘resurrect’ the MoneroSigner project (54)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 11th & 25th (55,56)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings in May (57,58,59,60)
The Monero Moon newsletter made a comeback after a 6 month hiatus with issues #65-67 (61,62,63)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #194-197 (64,65,66,67)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issue #104 (68)
Monero Talk interviewed Associate Professor of Law J.W. Verret and software dev ‘Cryptocomicon’ (69,70)
zia_tim launched LocalMonero alternative Trade in Monero (71)
Monero Vegas launched the ‘first ever’ XMR-only sportsbook (72)
anhdres announced the first public version of the Monero Garden educational website (73)
XMRBazaar Monero P2P platform was ready for beta testers (74)

Community Messages (5/42)

[ANN] [Feather Wallet] Incident report: Denial-of-Service (28 April 2024) (by chillband) (75)
[ANN] Full-chain membership proof review (by Cypher Stack) (by rehrar) (76)
[ANN] Are you actually using Monero? (by ki9) (77)
[LFF] [10 XMR] Rottenwheel to MoneroKon 4 in Prague (by rottenwheel) (78)
[WTS] [~6.15 XMR] Dell Precision 5550 Intel Xeon/32GB/500GB SSD/Quadro T2000 Max-Q Design (by RyzNL) (79)

My personal contributions

+81/+42 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+19 Calendar events
+4 Resources

Daily
- published 81 Monero Observer Reports (80) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (81))
- updated Changelog (82) and XMR Stats (83)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 42 Community Messages and 19 Calendar events (84,85), added 4 new Resources (86)
- published Meeting summary MRL 2024-05-15 (87) and uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 2024-05-01, MRL 2024-05-08, MRL 2024-05-15, MRL 2024-05-22, MRL 2024-05-29, Community 2024-05-11, Community 2024-05-25, MoneroKon24 2024-05-04, Monerokon24 2024-05-18, Seraphis 2024-05-06, Seraphis 2024-05-13, Seraphis 2024-05-20, Seraphis 2024-05-27 (88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2024) (101,102,103,104)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2024) (105,106,107,108)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #29 (April 2024) (109)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
a bighearted anon for the kind contribution
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool designs
plowsof for the sensible pings
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

Update: added link to Meeting Summary MRL 2024-05-15.

That’s it for the 30th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #29 - April 2024

Wed, 01 May 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this April in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.3.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released (1)
Anons donated ~6500 XMR to the Monero General Fund (2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
kayabaNerve submitted 2 CCS proposals for ‘Full-Chain Membership Proofs’ research and development, which were fully funded (9,10,11)
Kraken announced plans to delist XMR in Belgium, Ireland on June 10 2024 (12)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in April (13,14,15,16)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 5 meetings (17,18,19,20,21)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for March 2024 (22)
Justin Berman posted a progress report after 368 hours of dev work (23)
jeffro256 posted a Monero dev report for March 2024 (24)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk versions 1.1.31-1.1.35 were released with bug fixes and various improvements (25,26,27)
woodser released monero-cpp v0.8.8-0.8.10 and monero-java v0.8.22-0.8.26 (28,29,30)
Haveno v1.0.0 (0.0.21) was released (31)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet/Monero.com versions 4.15.4+4.15.5/1.12.2+1.12.3 (32,33)
mainnet-pat was teasing the BCH-XMR atomic swaps wallet ‘Monujo’ (34)
Cyrix126 released ‘Gupaxx’ v1.1.0 (35)
Everywhere Finance was planning to launch a Wrapped Monero (XMRT) ERC-20 token in ‘early June’ (36)
XMRig v6.21.3 was released with a RandomX bug fix (37)
d4ndox released ‘Monero Named Pipes’ v0.1.0 (38)
ANON v0.9.5 was released with ‘Stealth Mode’ (39)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.6.6/2.6.7 with a critical bug fix (40)

Funding

rehrar/Cypherstack submitted a CCS proposal to develop security proofs for ‘Generalized Bulletproofs’, which was fully funded (41,42)
ofrnxmr submitted a nonstandard CCS proposal to ‘take over the world’ (43)
detherminal submitted a CCS proposal to develop the new mobile Monero wallet ‘Droplet’ (44)
r4v3r23 submitted a CCS proposal for the rewrite of ‘ANONERO’ v1.0, which was fully funded (45,46)
plowsof’s, Rucknium’s CCS proposals were fully funded (47)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for February-March 2024 (48)
0xFFFC reopened their May-July 2024 Monero dev work CCS proposal, which was later fully funded (49)
tired_turtle proposed a bounty for the integration of I2P into ‘Neroshop’ (50)
DangerousFreedom1984’s CCS proposal for Seraphis wallet dev work was fully funded (51)
The Monero Graphics project was fully funded until 2025 (52)
MrCyjaneK’s ‘Unnamed Monero Wallet’ dev work CCS proposal was overfunded by 85.42 XMR (53)
shortwavesurfer2009 proposed bounties for Monerujo accessibility and UI improvements (54)
Janaka-Steph submitted a CCS proposal to ‘rewrite’ the Getmonero.org website (55)
moneroguides submitted a CCS proposal to produce a ‘How to mine Monero’ mini video series (56)

Culture

Moneranoj celebrated a decade of Monero on the 18th (57)
Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 13th & 27th (58,59)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings in April (60,61,62,63)
Revuo Monero made a comeback after a 5 month hiatus with issues #192-193 (64,65)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #100-103 (66,67,68,69)
Monero Talk interviewed Vasilii Rogin, Andrey Sabelnikov, Luke Parker, and Aaron Day (70,71,72,73)

Community Messages (5/43)

[ANN] Samourai devs arrested is a wake up call for crypto (by rottenwheel) (74)
[ANN] Seed encryption and plausible deniability (by tevador) (75)
[LTH] [0.000789 XMR/word] Spanish-Chinese/English-Chinese translator (by jorgesumle) (76)
[LTT] New Cashapp for Monero AgoraDesk Vendor (by No1change) (77)
[WTS] Goldbacks, Precious Metals, Energy Bars for XMR (by xmr808) (78)

My personal contributions

+81/+43 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+15 Meeting logs
+15 Calendar events
+10 Resources

Daily
- published 81 Monero Observer Reports (79) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (80))
- updated Changelog (81) and XMR Stats (82)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 43 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (83,84), added 10 new Resources (85)
- uploaded 15 meeting logs (MRL 2024-04-03, MRL 2024-04-10, MRL 2024-04-17, MRL 2024-04-24, Community 2024-04-13, Community 2024-04-27, MoneroKon24 2024-04-06, Monerokon24 2024-04-13, Monerokon24 2024-04-20, Monerokon24 2024-04-27, Seraphis 2024-04-01, Seraphis 2024-04-08, Seraphis 2024-04-15, Seraphis 2024-04-22, Seraphis 2024-04-29 (86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 14-17, 2024) (101,102,103,104)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 14-17, 2024) (105,106,107,108)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #28 (March 2024) (109)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all MO loyal readers and supporters
the generous anon that funded the MO 2024 Q2 CCS
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool designs
plowsof for the sensible pings
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

Update: fixed report title.

That’s it for the 29th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #28 - March 2024

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this March in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero experienced a suspiciously high transaction volume for the better part of the month, pointing to a potential ‘black marble’ attack (1,2)
Monero v0.18.3.2 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released and v0.18.3.3 was tagged (3)
Anons donated several hundred XMR (~50K USD) to the Monero General Fund (4)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in March (5,6,7,8)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 4 meetings (9,10,11,12)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk versions 1.1.21-1.1.27 were released with bug fixes and various improvements (13,14,15,16,17)
jeffro256 posted a Monero dev report for February 2024 (18)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for February 2024 (19)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v1.10.2 with various fixes and updates (20)
ANONERO released ANON versions 0.9.3/0.9.4 (21)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet/Monero.com versions 4.14.1-4.15.3/1.11.1-1.12.1 (22,23,24)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.6.4/2.6.5 (25,26)
woodser released monero-cpp v0.8.7, monero-java v0.8.11-0.8.15, and monero-ts v0.9.7 (27,28)
hinto-janai posted the first progress report for their Cuprate CCS proposal (29)
tobtoht posted a CCS progress report after 240 hours of dev work (30)
BTCPay Server enabled ‘Zero Confirmation’ default option for XMR thanks to HennyH (31)
Haveno versions 0.0.19/0.0.20 were released with various improvements and fixes (32,33)
m2049r released Monerujo v3.3.11 ‘Argentina’ (34)
hinto-janai releases Gupax v1.3.6 (35)
XMRig v6.21.2 was released with various bug fixes (36)
0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for March 2024 (37)
detherminal released libmonero v0.1.9 (38)

Funding

MrCyjaneK submitted a CCS proposal to continue developing ‘Unnamed Monero Wallet’ for 3 months (39)
Boog900’s ‘Cuprate’ dev work CCS proposal was fully funded (40)
pndxmr proposed a bounty for Monero DSA research (41)
jeffro256’s Monero/Seraphis dev work CCS proposal was fully funded (42)
Anon proposed a bounty for a XMR-LTC atomic swap ‘plugin’ (43)
0xFFFC decided to indefinitely ‘pause’ their recently submitted Monero dev work CCS proposal (44)
Haveno allocated 9.25 XMR to core and library development (45)
plowsof submitted a new proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator for 3 months (46)
Rucknium submitted a CCS proposal to conduct statistical research to improve Monero’s privacy (47)
rehrar submitted a CCS proposal to get the Seraphis paper reviewed by CypherStack (48)
DangerousFreedom1984 submitted a CCS proposal for 12 weeks of Seraphis wallet dev work (49)
J0J0XMR proposed a bounty for adding ‘Polyseed’ support to Monerujo (50)

Culture

Three Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 2nd, 16th & 30th (51,52,53)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings in March (54,55,56,57)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #96-99 (58,59,60,61)
Monero Talk interviewed Blake Lovewell and return guest ‘DoingFedTime’ (62,63)
plowsof posted the final progress report for their third CCS coordinator term (64)

Community Messages (5/35)

[ANN] I built a website to let you pay for AI services with XMR (by TRWNBS) (65)
[ANN] Public audit of XMR reserves on April 18th - Mone(ro)Run (by MoneroFox) (66)
[ANN] [Final version] Bulletproofs++ review by Cypher Stack (by rehrar) (67)
[ANN] Research: March 2024 Suspected Black Marble Flooding Against Monero: Privacy, User Experience, and Countermeasures (by Rucknium) (68)
[LTH] [$2K] Laravel, Front-end and backend dev (by xalistarx) (69)

My personal contributions

+73/+35 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+5 Dev/Art reports
+15 Meeting logs
+14 Calendar events
+5 Resources

Daily
- published 73 Monero Observer Reports (70) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (71))
- updated Changelog (72) and XMR Stats (73)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 35 Community Messages and 14 Calendar events (74,75), added 5 new Resources (76)
- uploaded 15 meeting logs (MRL 2024-03-06, MRL 2024-03-13, MRL 2024-03-20, MRL 2024-03-27, Community 2024-03-02, Community 2024-03-16, Community 2024-03-30, MoneroKon24 2024-03-02, Monerokon24 2024-03-09, Monerokon24 2024-03-16, Monerokon24 2024-03-30, Seraphis 2024-03-04, Seraphis 2024-03-11, Seraphis 2024-03-18, Seraphis 2024-03-25 (77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 9-13, 2024) (93,94,95,96,97)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 9-13, 2024) (98,99,100,101,102)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #27 (February 2024) (103)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all anon MO loyal readers and generous contributors
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool graphics
plowsof for the sensible pings
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 28th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #27 - February 2024

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:

Breaking

Binance and PrimeXBT delisted Monero on the 20th (1,2)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in February (3,4,5,6)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 4 meetings (7,8,9,10)
Haveno versions 0.0.17/0.0.18 were released with various fixes and improvements (11,12)
Cake Wallet/Monero.com versions 4.13.3-4.14.0/1.10.3 were released with various fixes and improvements (13,14)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk v1.1.19 & 1.1.20 were released with bug fixes and UI improvements (15)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v1.10.0/1.10.1 with networking overhaul and various bug fixes (16,17)
XMRig added support for Townforge (18)
Feather Wallet v2.6.3 was released with a fix for Tails detection (19)
ANON v1.0 release was postponed due to internal issues (20)

Funding

0xFFFC, escapethe3RA and hinto-janai CCS proposals were fully funded (21)
selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until end of April 2024, which was fully funded (22,23)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for December 2023-January 2024 (24)
vtnerd’s Monero and Monero LWS dev work proposal was fully funded thanks to a 200 XMR donation (25)
blockconomist proposed a bounty for a Monero OpenRPC specification (26)
xmrvsbeast proposed a 20 XMR bounty for a Gupax fork with an integrated ‘XMRvsBeast Bonus Hashrate Raffle’ for P2Pool miners (27)
Justin Berman posted a CCS progress report after 188 hours of Monero dev work (28)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero/Seraphis dev work (29)
0xFFFC posted a February 2024 dev update (30)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 3rd & 17th (31,32)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings in February (33,34,35,36)
Monero Konferenco 2024 tickets went on sale (37)
Monero Talk interviewed ‘Watchman Privacy Podcast’ host Gabriel Custodiet, BasicSwap’s CryptoGuard and Dr. Kapil, and ShopinBit founder Lando Rothbardian (38,39,40)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #91-95 (41,42,43,44,45)
Haveno opened voter registration for community ‘council’ seats (46)

Community Messages (5/25)

[ANN] Serai is looking for testnet validators (by SeraiDEX) (47)
[ANN] XMRbin.com - Crypto Pastebin (by XMRbin) (48)
[ANN] Announcing the 1st Monero Hackathon @ MoneroKon 2024 (by xmr_radio) (49)
[LFF] [~2 XMR] Moner.ooo (XMR-fiat conversion) (by luke) (50)
[LTH] BasicSwapDex: Looking for help to develop XMR:ETH atomic swap support for our DEX (by joskye) (51)

My personal contributions

+54/+25 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+13 Meeting logs
+14 Calendar events
+5/-2 Resources

Daily
- published 54 Monero Observer Reports (52) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (53))
- updated Changelog (54) and XMR Stats (55)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 25 Community Messages and 14 Calendar events (56,57), added 5 (and removed 2) new Resources (58)
- published 1 Meeting summary: MRL 2024-02-14 (59) and uploaded 13 meeting logs (MRL 2024-02-07, MRL 2024-02-14, MRL 2024-02-21, MRL 2024-02-28, Community 2024-02-03, Community 2024-02-17, MoneroKon24 2024-02-03, Monerokon24 2024-02-10, Monerokon24 2024-02-17, Seraphis 2024-02-05, Seraphis 2024-02-12, Seraphis 2024-02-19, Seraphis 2024-02-26 (60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 5-8, 2024) (72,73,74,75)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 5-8, 2024) (76,77,78,79)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #26 (January 2024) (80)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all anon MO loyal readers and generous contributors
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool graphics
Blankpage for reporting broken links
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 27th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #26 - January 2024

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this January in the Monero community:

Breaking

Binance marked Monero for potential delisting (X)
PHCitizen executed the first ever mainnet BCH-XMR atomic swap (X)
Samourai’s BTC-XMR atomic swaps program entered public beta (X)

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in January (X,X,X,X,X)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 5 meetings (X,X,X,X,X)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.6.2 (X)
SChernykh released P2Pool v3.10 (X)
duggavo released the source code for Monero/CryptoNote mining pool ‘Go-Pool’ (X)
woodser released monero-cpp v0.8.5/0.8.6, monero-java v0.8.9/0.8.10 and monero-ts v0.9.5/0.9.6 (X,X)
hinto-janai released Gupax v1.3.4/1.3.5 (X,X)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk v1.1.16-1.1.18 were released with several fixes and improvements (X,X)
Cake Wallet/Monero.com versions 4.13.0/1.10.0-4.13.2/1.10.2 were released with support for ‘OnRamper’, several fixes and enhancements (X,X)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v1.9.0-1.9.2 with support for ‘Lelantus Spark’ and various bug fixes (X,X)
Monero Market implemented a 2/3 multisig escrow system (X)
jeffro256 posted their January 2024 dev update (X)
detherminal released ‘libmonero’ v0.1.8 (X)

Funding

All open CCS proposals were fully funded on January 1st (X)
tobtoht submitted a CCS proposal to work full-time on Feather Wallet and Monero for 3 months, which was fully funded (X,X)
Lovera submitted a CCS progress report for November 2023 (X)
0xFFFC submitted a CCS proposal to work part-time on Monero Core for 3 months (X)
pat’s BCH-XMR atomic swap frontend ‘Flipstarter’ proposal was fully funded (X)
plowsof posted a progress report for their third CCS coordinator term (X)
The Monero General Fund received a 100 XMR donation (X)
shortwavesurfer2009 proposed a bounty for adding ‘full ipv6 support’ to Monerujo (X)
raven proposed a bounty for Monero ‘drivechain’ research (X)
ANONERO was seeking donations ahead of ‘ANON’ v1.0 release (X)
vtnerd’s Monero and Monero LWS dev work proposal was listed for funding on the MAGIC Monero Fund platform (X)
Boog900 submitted a CCS proposal to work full time on ‘Cuprate’ for 3 months (X)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 6th & 20th (X,X)
There were 3 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings in January (X,X,X)
gnuteardrops returned and reactivated ‘Monero.Graphics’ (X)
Monero Talk interviewed ‘Eat Sleep Crypto’, nopara73 and Paul Sztorc (X,X,X)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #87-90 (X,X,X,X)
Cake Wallet celebrated their 6th anniversary on the 18th (X)
The Monero community was preparing to remove Binance from Getmonero.org (X)

Community Messages (10/46)

[AFH] Pro AI Photos and Video Upscale, Denoise and Sharpen (by DoubleVet70) (X)
[ANN] Monero x5 release writeup / analysis (by gingeropolous) (X)
[ANN] Would you like Revuo to return? (by unsanctionedf) (X)
[ANN] monerodocs.org down (by unkn8wn69) (X)
[ANN] Darknetlive Sold to Incognito Market (by DarkDotFail) (X)
[ANN] Anonero Guide - Airgapped DIY Monero hardware wallet setup (by untraceable) (X)
[ANN] Nodes video script ready for community feedback/comments (by VostoEmisio) (X)
[ANN] 1000 USD bounty for Linux camera support offered in XMR (by fullmetalScience) (X)
[LTH] [$0.09/word] Spanish-Russian translator (by jorgesumle) (X)
[WTB] [SK] Pinephone (by julie) (X)

My personal contributions

+67/+46 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+15 Meeting logs
+16 Calendar events
+6 Resources

Daily
- published 67 Monero Observer Reports (X) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (X))
- updated Changelog (X) and XMR Stats (X)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 46 Community Messages and 16 Calendar events (X,X), added 6 new Resources (X)
- published 1 Meeting summary: MRL 2024-01-10 (X) and uploaded 15 meeting logs (MRL 2024-01-03, MRL 2024-01-10, MRL 2024-01-17, MRL 2024-01-24, MRL 2024-01-31, Community 2024-01-06, Community 2024-01-20, MoneroKon24 2024-01-13, Monerokon24 2024-01-20, Monerokon24 2024-01-27, Seraphis 2024-01-01, Seraphis 2024-01-08, Seraphis 2024-01-15, Seraphis 2024-01-22, Seraphis 2024-01-29 (X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X,X)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 1-4, 2024) (X,X,X,X)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 1-4, 2024) (X,X,X,X)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #25 (December 2023) (X)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all anon MO loyal readers and generous contributors
gnuteardrops from monero.graphics for providing the cool graphics
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 26th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #25 - December 2023

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:

Breaking

Anon donated ~2696 XMR to the Monero General Fund (1)
The Community Crowdfunding System was ‘restarted’ with luigi1111 as escrow until March 31 2024 (2)
OKX announced plans to delist XMR spot trading pairs on January 5 2024 (3)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in December (4,5,6,7)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 3 meetings (8,9,10)
selsta posted a Monero dev update for November 2023 (11)
jeffro256 posted a Monero dev update for December 2023 (12)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet versions 2.6.0/2.6.1 with support for airgapped signing with animated QR codes (13,14)
m2049r released Monerujo v3.3.10 ‘Argentina’ (15)
ANONERO released ANON v0.9.2 with UX improvements for airgapped transactions (16)
pokkst released Mysu Wallet versions 0.4.6-0.5.7 (17,18)
Cake Wallet/Monero.com versions 4.11.0/1.8.0 & 4.12.1/1.9.0 were released with Polyseed support and Polygon (MATIC) integration (19,20)
Haveno v0.0.16 was released with various fixes and improvements (21)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v1.8.2 with various bug fixes (22)
Unkn8wn69 created psst - a ‘Polyseed Secret Sharing Tool’ for Monero (23)

Funding

6 CCS proposals were moved to the funding stage: DangerousFreedom, escapethe3RA, j-berman, jeffro256, kayabaNerve, plowsof (24)
j-berman submitted a CCS proposal to work full-time on Monero and Seraphis for 3 months (25)
plowsof submitted a proposal to test the new CCS wallet (26)
v1docq47’s latest CCS proposal for Russian voice-over and transcription work was moved to the funding stage (27)
selsta’s November 2023 - January 2024 Monero dev work CCS proposal was fully funded (28)
ErCiccione closed their CCS proposal (29)
Abnon253 proposed a bounty for the Arabic translation of Monerujo (30)

Culture

Three Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 2nd, 9th & 23rd (31,32,33)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings in December (34,35,36,37)
Monero Talk interviewed Michael Ten, François-Xavier Wicht, Ragnar Lifthrasir, and Juraj Bednar (38,39,40,41)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #83-86 (42,43,44,45)

Community Messages (10/35)

[AFH] Electrical engineer: custom electronic circuits (by IslandEscape) (46)
[ANN] MoneroPHP library update (by recanman) (47)
[ANN] Douglas Tuman CCS ~2-year update (by DouglasTuman) (48)
[ANN] Libereco Mono - A New Monero Blog (by squ3aky) (49)
[ANN] ‘The Monero Standard’ now available on Barnes & Noble! (by MoneroBook) (50)
[LFF] Looking for funding for monerobros.club XMPP server (by monerobros) (51)
[LTT] P2P exchange, sell XMR for BTC/LTC/DOGE. 0.5% fee (trusted localmonero/agoradesk trader) (by deckardrick) (52)
[WTS] [US] [100+ USD] Wifi pineapple nano v1 with battery (by foojay) (53)
[WTS] [1K USD] Anti interceptor (IMSI-catcher/Stingray) phone (by Tessa) (54)
[WTS] [12-115 EUR] IntelTechniques e-books available at digitalgoods.proxysto.re (by dys2p_official) (55)

My personal contributions

+54/+35 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+5 Dev/Art reports
+13 Meeting logs
+13 Calendar events
+2 Resources

Daily
- published 54 Monero Observer Reports (56) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (57))
- updated Changelog (58) and XMR Stats (59)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 35 Community Messages and 13 Calendar events (60,61), added 2 new Resources (62)
- uploaded 13 meeting logs (MRL 2023-12-06, MRL 2023-12-13, MRL 2023-12-20, MRL 2023-12-27, Community 2023-12-02, Community 2023-12-09, Community 2023-12-23, MoneroKon24 2023-12-09, Monerokon24 2023-12-16, Monerokon24 2023-12-23, Seraphis 2023-12-04, Seraphis 2023-12-11, Seraphis 2023-12-18 (63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 48-52, 2023) (76,77,78,79,80)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 48-52, 2023) (81,82,83,84,85)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #24 (November 2023) (86)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails / XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all anon MO loyal readers and generous contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 25th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: the MO 2023 Q4 CCS proposal was fully funded, thank you for the continued support!

Monero Observer Blitz #24 - November 2023

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this November in the Monero community:

Breaking

luigi1111 disclosed a critical breach: ‘CCS Wallet was drained of 2,675.73 XMR’ (1)
fluffypony resigned after submitting a proposal to ‘disband’ the Monero Core Team (2,3)

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in November (4,5,6,7,8)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 4 meetings (9,10,11,12)
Moonstone Research published a ‘Postmortem of Monero CCS Hack: A Transaction Graph Analysis’ report (13)
XMRig version 6.21.0 was released (14)
Haveno v0.0.14 was released with various fixes and improvements (15)
ANONERO released ANON versions 0.9 & 0.9.1 with ‘Secure Sync’ and built-in tor (16,17)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet/Monero.com v4.10.3/v1.7.3-v4.10.5/v1.7.5 with various fixes and improvements (18,19)
SChernykh released P2Pool v3.9 (20)
hinto-janai released Gupax v1.3.3 (21)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps version 1.1.15 was released with a few bug fixes (22)
MMGen Project celebrated their 10th anniversary with the release of MMGen Wallet v14.0.0 (23)

Funding

MoneroKon abandoned the CCS for a self-hosted crowdfunding solution (24)
selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 more months of part-time Monero dev work until the end of January 2024 (25)
hinto-janai submitted a CCS proposal to start working full-time on ‘Cuprate’ for 3 months (26)
Lovera submitted an October 2023 CCS progress report (27)
Justin Berman posted his final CCS progress report after 500+ hours of Monero dev work (28)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 11th & 25th (29,30)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in November (31,32,33,34)
An anonymous open letter was calling for structural changes in the Monero ecosystem (35)
Monero Talk interviewed Martin Gundinger, Pablo Wasserman, ArticMine and JEhrenhofer (36,37,38)
Monero Magazine interviewed Ragnar Lifthrasir (39)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #78-82 (40,41,42,43,44)
rottenwheel published a new Revuo Monero issue (#191) (45)
Trocador launched international virtual prepaid debit cards (46)

Community Messages (10/35)

[ANN] Warning: someone is sending very targeted phishing e-mails to Monero community devs about monero.observer domain renewal (by Siren) (47)
[ANN] Swapter.io Funds Scammed: Beware (by stuckxmrswap) (48)
[ANN] Weekend project: Monero Wall - Leave your message using Monero (by Unimamo) (49)
[ANN] Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security (by Saki) (50)
[ANN] CCS Wallet Incident Response. Forensics and Attribution (by HackerIndustrial) (51)
[ANN] Vote: Luigi to continue as CCS escrow (by plowsof) (52)
[ANN] MoneroKon 2024 Volunteer Sign up (by ajs_) (53)
[LFF] Looking for funding for monerobros.club XMPP server (by monerobros)(54)
[LFF] [>86.5 XMR] Help Fund Nonprofit MoneroKon Association (by xmr_radio) (55)
[WTS] [UK] [0.25 XMR] 2023 Britannia 1oz Silver Bullion (by OpenError) (56)

My personal contributions

+56/+35 Reports/Community Messages
+4/+4 Dev/Art reports
+15/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+16 Calendar events
+1/+1 Resources/Blacklist
+1 Cypherpunk Transmission

Daily
- published 56 Monero Observer Reports (57) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (58))
- updated Changelog (59) and XMR Stats (60)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 35 Community Messages and 16 Calendar events (61,62), added 1 new Resource (63) & 1 Blacklist entry (Swapter.io) (64)
- published 1 Meeting summary: Community 2023-11-11 (65) and uploaded 15 meeting logs (MRL 2023-11-01, MRL 2023-11-08, MRL 2023-11-15, MRL 2023-11-22, MRL 2023-11-29, Community 2023-11-11, Community 2023-11-25, MoneroKon24 2023-11-04, Monerokon24 2023-11-11, Monerokon24 2023-11-18, Monerokon24 2023-11-25, Seraphis 2023-11-06, Seraphis 2023-11-13, Seraphis 2023-11-20, Seraphis 2023-11-27) (66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78)
- published CT-017: Rethinking the Monero CCS: A cypherpunk proposal (79)
- added new Meeting Summaries RSS feed (80), new community message type ([LFF] - Looking for Funding), minor CSS fixes
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 44-47, 2023) (81,82,83,84)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 44-47, 2023) (85,86,87,88)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #23 (October 2023) (89)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
all anon MO loyal readers and generous contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 24th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #23 - October 2023

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this October in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.3.1 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released with important bug fixes (1)
tevador released new RandomX versions (1.2.0/1.2.1) after ~2 years of development (2)
Rucknium urged Monero users of Exodus Desktop wallet to update for ‘privacy fix’ (3)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in October (4,5,6,7)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 5 meetings (8,9,10,11,12)
rbrunner7 published the first annual progress report on Seraphis wallet development (13)
SChernykh released P2Pool v3.7 & v3.8 with several bug fixes, including curl’s CVE-2023-38545 (14,15)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for September 2023 (16)
hinto-janai released Gupax v1.3.2 (17)
ANONERO released ANON versions 0.7.1/0.8/0.8.1 with Polyseed support, fixes and improvements (18,19,20)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet/Monero.com v4.9.2/v1.6.2-v4.10.2/v1.7.2 with support for BCH, Nano wallets, fixes and improvements (21,22,23,24)
4rkal released MoneroOS v0.3.7 (25)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.1.13/1.1.14 were released with several bug fixes (26,27)
Unkn8wn69 created a Telegram bot for Trocador AnonPay (28)
Haveno versions 0.0.12/0.0.13 were released with various fixes and improvements (29)
Stack Wallet v1.8.1 was released with support for CashFusion (30)

Funding

ajs-xmr submitted a CCS proposal to incorporate a Czech LLC for MoneroKon (31)
plowsof completed their second three-month term as CCS coordinator and submitted a new proposal (32,33)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work (Q4 2023) (34)
v1docq47 submitted a new CCS proposal for Russian voice-over and transcription work (35)
VostoEmisio submitted a CCS proposal to create animated videos explaining Monero core concepts (36)
plowsof proposed a bounty for adding merge mining to P2Pool, which was assigned to sech1 (37)
Boog900 completed the first milestone for their Cuprate CCS proposal (38)
valldrac posted the first progress report for their Monero Wallet SDK CCS proposal (39)
woodser won a bounty for adding TypeScript support to the monero-javascript library (40)
4rkal cancelled their CCS proposal to host and maintain a Monero source code archive (41)
binarybaron opened and then ‘temporarily’ closed their third UnstoppableSwap GUI CCS proposal (42, 43)
Lovera’s fourth CCS proposal to produce Monero educational content in Spanish was fully funded (44)
OrangeFren submitted a CCS proposal to rent r/CryptoCurrency ad space for MoneroKon24, which expired and was closed (45)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings & 2 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings took place on the 14th & 28th (46,47,48,49)
A Monero Policy Working Group Meeting scheduled for October 3rd was cancelled (50)
A user claimed that the recent ~108 XMR Monero General Fund donation was a ‘wrong copy/paste’ (51)
Monero Talk interviewed Ben Biedermann, Zelinar XY, Econ Bro, and Sethforprivacy (52,53,54,55)
John Foss published 3 new The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#62-64) after an ~8 month hiatus (56,57,58)
ANONERO migrated from Telegram to a self-hosted SimpleX Chat onion server (59)
RINO decided to make its enterprise XMR wallet ‘free to use’ (60)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #188-190 (61,62,63)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #74-77 (64,65,66,67)
The Monero Magazine podcast returned after a ~3 month break (68)
MoneroTime shared a MoneroSigner assembly video (69)
Binance temporarily suspended XMR withdrawals for the first time in over 5 months (70)

Community Messages (10/55)

[AFH] [38 XMR] Full professional branding package (by Sato) (71)
[ANN] New updates on Trocador.app (by Trocador_App) (72)
[ANN] First episode of a new spanish-spoken Café Monero is out! (by anhdres) (73)
[ANN] Devzat @ monerobros.club - Chat in SSH with zero dependencies! (by notmtth) (74)
[ANN] Community-supported film premiering at San Diego Film Festival this Saturday, Oct 21! (by geonic_) (75)
[ANN] Monero Chicago Meet Up with guest speaker Justin Berman (by vikrants) (76)
[ANN] Reddit is trash join TOWN instead (by monerobull) (77)
[LTH] link me up with a i2pd (c++) developer for a small fee (by DiscountMoney89) (78)
[WTB] Minecraft server hosting that accepts Monero (by Altair12311) (79)
[WTS] [US] 90% silver quarters $10 FV (by bawdyzebra) (80)

My personal contributions

+92 Reports/Stories
+55 Community messages
+5 Dev reports
+4 Art reports
+13/+2 Meeting logs/summaries
+18 Calendar events
+10/-2 Resources
+1 Blacklist entry

Daily
- published 92 Monero Observer Reports (81) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (82))
- updated Changelog (83) and XMR Stats (84)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 55 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (85,86), added 10 new Resources (& removed 2) (87) & added 1 Blacklist entry (LocalMoneNo.co) (88)
- published 2 Meeting summaries: MRL 2023-10-04 & Seraphis 2023-10-09 (89,90) and uploaded 13 meeting logs (MRL 2023-10-04, MRL 2023-10-11, MRL 2023-10-18, MRL 2023-10-25, Community 2023-10-14, Community 2023-10-28, MoneroKon24 2023-10-14, Monerokon24 2023-10-28, Seraphis 2023-05-15, Seraphis 2023-10-02, Seraphis 2023-10-09, Seraphis 2023-10-16, Seraphis 2023-10-23, Seraphis 2023-10-30) (91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103)
- added new stat to menu bar (Monero latest version), updated PGP key (expiration date), minor layout fixes
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 39-43, 2023) (104,105,106,107,108)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 40-43, 2023) (109,110,111,112)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
the monerano that reminded me to update the PGP key
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 23rd edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: feels awesome and ‘just right’ to be back, thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

Monero Observer Blitz #22 - May 2023

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this May in the Monero community:

Breaking

tevador released a security advisory for a ‘medium severity’ vulnerability in Monero wallets that can be exploited by malicious remote nodes (1)
jeffro256 posted a vulnerability disclosure highlighting a ‘high severity’ bug that was patched in Monero v0.18.2.2 (2)
KuCoin temporarily suspended XMR deposits and withdrawals due to ‘node maintenance’ (3)
Binance was getting ready to delist XMR in France, Italy, Poland and Spain due to ‘local regulatory requirements’ (4)

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in May (5,6,7,8,9)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 3 meetings (10,11,12)
The ETH-XMR atomic swap beta release v0.2.1 was deployed on mainnet (13)
The Nym team announced a new mixnet integration with the Monero network (14)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for April 2023, finalizing their CCS proposal (15)
SChernykh released P2Pool v3.4 with several bug fixes and improvements (16)
m2049r released Monerujo v3.1.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ & v3.2.0 ‘Decoy Selection’ (17,18)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.1.1-1.1.4 were released with several bug fixes and improvements (19,20,21)
Cake Labs announced the first Cake Wallet beta release for Linux and ‘Cake 2FA’, a new security feature (22,23)
Haveno versions 0.0.5 & 0.0.6 were released with binary installers for live test network and support for gold and silver (24,25)
hinto-janai released Gupax v1.2.2 with fixes, UI improvements and remote node changes (26)
rehrar released Stack Wallet versions 1.7.7-1.7.11 with support for Trocador.app and various fixes and updates (27,28,29,30)
lukeprofits released ‘Monero Subscriptions Wallet’, as promised (31,32)
keef1337 released noderowallet v1.1.0-1.1.2 (33)
pokkst released Mysu Wallet v0.4.3 with ‘high priority’ fixes (34)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.4.9 with security fixes (35)
ANON v0.4.1 updated to Monero 0.18.2.2 (36)

Funding

selsta submitted a new CCS proposal for 3 more months of part-time Monero dev work, which was fully funded (37,38)
valldrac submitted a CCS proposal to develop a Monero Wallet SDK for Android (39)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 4 months of full-time Monero dev work (40)
VostoEmisio submitted a CCS proposal to create an animated video explaining Monero’s Tail Emission (41)
john_r365 proposed a bounty for the review of a Trezor PR to the core Monero codebase (42)
plowsof will continue working as CCS coordinator for 3 months after their proposal was fully funded (43)
Justin Berman completed his latest Monero dev work CCS proposal (44)
CryptoGrampy completed his HotShop CCS proposal (45)
Lovera posted a CCS progress report for April 2023 (46)
moneromooo-monero was planning to work on Townforge after completing 520 hours of Monero dev work (47)

Culture

There were 4 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in May (48,49,50,51)
A Community Workgroup Meeting took place on the 27th (52)
Monero Magazine interviewed ‘Katie The Russian’, Juraj Bednar, Nam Sardar and ‘Mano Crypto’ (53,54,55,56)
Monero Talk interviewed crypto-anarchist Pavol Luptak (57)
rbrunner7 published a new Monero-themed fictional short story titled ‘RingCT’ (58)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #169-172 (59,60,61,62)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #52-55 (63,64,65,66)
Ledger came under fire for its controversial ‘Ledger Recover’ firmware update (67)

Community Messages (10/51)

[AFH] Foreign Language Teacher: Spanish and Portuguese (by pedrosfreitas) (68)
[ANN] Rucknium Monerotopia 2023 Presentation (by Rucknium) (69)
[ANN] Results after 4 months of mining (Jan - Apr 2023) (by SeaFailure) (70)
[ANN] Os Moneristas - Brazilian community project (by OsMoneristas) (71)
[ANN] The next nautilus update will remove support for monero (by fossephate) (72)
[LTH] C++ developer to enchant a project (by Nico) (73)
[WTB] [~45 XMR] NLJD (Non-linear Junction Detector) & [1-2.25 XMR] IR Thermal Camera (by freQniK) (74)
[WTB] [US] 1/10oz Gold Coin with crypto (BTC/XMR) (by ValleyEliminator) (75)
[WTS] [~180€ XMR/BTC] OLED PS Vita with Minecraft (by derBehr98) (76)
[WTS] [35 USD] Schmidt Hammer (by burntbooks) (77)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 75 Monero Observer Reports (78) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (79))
- updated Changelog (80) and XMR Stats (81)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 51 Community Messages and 14 Calendar events (82,83) & added 5 new Resources (84)
- published Meeting summary: Monero Research Lab, 3 May 2023 (85) and uploaded 13 meeting logs (MRL 2023-05-03, MRL 2023-05-10, MRL 2023-05-17, MRL 2023-05-24, MRL 2023-05-31, Community 2023-05-27, MoneroKon23 2023-05-06, Monerokon23 2023-05-13, Monerokon23 2023-05-20, Monerokon23 2023-05-27, Seraphis 2023-05-15, Seraphis 2023-05-22, Seraphis 2023-05-29) (86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98)
Weekly
- published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2023) (99,100,101,102)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 18-21, 2023) (102,103,104,105)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #21 (April 2023) (106)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art and plowsof for the consistent pings
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 22nd edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #21 - April 2023

Mon, 01 May 2023 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this April in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.2.2 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released (1,2)
Rucknium posted analysis exposing the negative effects of ~43K ‘Mordinals’ on the privacy of Monero users (3)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in April (4,5,6,7)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 3 meetings (8,9,10)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for March 2023 (11)
jeffro256 posted a third Monero dev update (12)
XMRig v6.19.2 was released with several fixes and improvements (13)
SChernykh released P2Pool v3.3 with several bug fixes and improvements (14)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet version 2.4.5 with several improvements and updates (15)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.0.71-1.1.0 were released with several bug fixes and improvements (16,17)
OrangeFren and MajesticBank launched ‘Intercambio.app’ exchange aggregator (18)
Cake Wallet/Monero.com v4.6.2/v1.3.2, v4.6.3/v1.3.3, and v4.6.4/v1.3.4 were released with support for direct XMR purchases with fiat (19,20)
hinto-janai’s ‘monero-vanity’ got a ~12x speed boost with v0.5.0 release (21)
rehrar released Stack Wallet versions 1.6.9-1.7.4 with new orange theme (22,23,24)
CryptoGrampy released the ‘monero-lws-admin’ web tool for managing Monero Light Wallet Server accounts (25)
lukeprofits created the ‘monero-usd-price’ Python package (26)
AnarkioCrypto launched Vendo Digital Downloads XMR marketplace (27)
MMGen Wallet implemented Monero ‘offline transaction autosigning’ (28)
keef1337 released ‘noderowallet’ Node.js library for interacting with monero-wallet-rpc (29)

Funding

UkoeHB submitted a new CCS proposal for Seraphis ‘ongoing support’, which was fully funded (30,31)
plowsof submitted a proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator for 3 months (32)
Lovera posted a CCS progress report for March 2023 (33)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for February-March 2023 (34)
4 CCS proposals were fully funded: BigmenPixel, DangerousFreedom1984, UkoeHB, v1docq47 (35)
AnarkioCrypto proposed a bounty for adding a ‘skip sync’ feature to Monero wallets (36)
A Foundation Devices engineer proposed bounties for adding Monero support to a Passport hardware wallet fork (37)

Culture

Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 8th, 15th and 29th (38,39,40)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in April (41,42,43,44)
An anonymous contributor donated ~96 XMR to the Monero General Fund (45)
MajesticBank donated ~74.5 XMR to Monero General Fund (46)
The second ‘Monerun’ event took place on Monero’s 9th birthday (47)
Monero Talk interviewed Monero dev Jethro Grassie, and Oxen & Session CTO Kee Jefferys (48,49)
Monero Magazine interviewed Sethforprivacy (50)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #165-168 (51,52,53,54)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #48-51 (55,56,57,58)
A Monero Meet livestream was scheduled to take place on April 18th (59)
IVPN switched to Cake Labs’s pricing API for XMR invoices (60)
MAGIC Grants was holding a Monero Fund ‘special election’ to fill MajesticBank’s seat (61)
MoneroTopia distributed a press release ahead of the 5-7 May conference (62)

Community Messages (10/53)

[AFH] Frontend development of static websites/landing pages (by nexaver) (63)
[AFH] Private detective (by detectivesleones) (64)
[ANN] I sent @bit_thanos 50 XMR falling for an April Fool’s prank (by beyondgoodnevil) (65)
[ANN] Creating reasonably secure Monero hot wallets and cold wallets with Tails OS (by PivotedThreat) (66)
[ANN] AMA: Hi all, Binarybaron the lead developer of UnstoppableSwap XMR-BTC Atomic Swap platform (by unstoppableswap) (67)
[ANN] Bounty: Make BTCPay Server configuration accessible (by Z) (68)
[ANN] Just bought Baklava with Monero! (by Siren) (69)
[LTH] [Cuprate] 0.4 XMR Bounty. Searching for a logo (by ComprehensiveMenu856) (70)
[WTS] [€79.99-89.99] The Monerochan Plush (by monerobull) (71)
[WTS] [3.682 XMR/600 USD] [US] Pride Electric Wheelchair in Texas, Jazzy 614-HD (by xdgxmr) (72)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 72 Monero Observer Reports (73) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (74))
- updated Changelog (75) and XMR Stats (76)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 53 Community Messages and 14 Calendar events (77,78) & added 10 new Resources (79)
- published Meeting summary: Monero Research Lab, 5 April 2023 (80) and uploaded 14 meeting logs (MRL 2023-04-05, MRL 2023-04-12, MRL 2023-04-19, MRL 2023-04-26, Community 2023-04-08, Community 2023-04-15, Community 2023-04-29, MoneroKon23 2023-04-01, Monerokon23 2023-04-15, Monerokon23 2023-04-22, Monerokon23 2023-04-29, Seraphis 2023-04-03, Seraphis 2023-04-10, Seraphis 2023-04-17) (81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94)
- published CT-016: Using 1vyrain to ‘soft disable’ the dreaded Intel ME on xx30 ThinkPads (95)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 13-17, 2023) (96,97,98,99,100)
- published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 13-17, 2023) (101,102,103,104,105)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #20 (March 2023) (106)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art and plowsof for the consistent pings
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 21st edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #20 - March 2023

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this March in the Monero community:

Breaking

Rucknium: ‘Monero transaction confirmations are now 60 seconds faster’ (1)
‘Monero Punks’ inscribed the first-ever NFT collection on Monero, devs responded by merging PR to limit max size of ‘tx_extra’ (2,3)
P2Pool’s March 18 hard fork was successful (4)
Monero v0.18.2.0 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released, v0.18.2.1 delayed after it was tagged (5,6)
binaryFate published a new Monero General Fund transparency report (7)

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in March (8,9,10,11,12)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 4 meetings (13,14,15,16)
CypherStack completed a partial code audit of Serai DEX and reported no ‘findings of particular immediate concern’ (17)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet version 2.4.3 & v2.4.4 with several fixes and improvements (18,19)
expiredhotdog released a ‘pure-Rust’ implementation of RingCT (20)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for February 2023 (21)
Cake Wallet/Monero.com v4.6.0/v1.3.0 & v4.6.1/v1.3.1 were released with Trocador support and several fixes and improvements (22,23)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.0.66-1.0.70 were released with several bug fixes and improvements (24,25,26,27)
busyboredom released AcceptXMR v0.12.0 (28)
hinto-janai released Gupax v1.2.0 & monero-bash v1.9.8 (29,30)
CryptoGrampy released PocketNode v0.4.0-alpha (31)
ANONERO released ANON v0.4 with several new features (32)
XMRig v6.19.1 was released with several bug fixes (33)
rehrar released new Stack Duo BTC/XMR only wallet, and Stack Wallet versions 1.5.47-1.6.7 (34,35,36,37,38)
pokkst rebranded MyNero to ‘Mysu Wallet’ with the v0.4.2.1 release (39)
SChernykh released P2Pool v3.2 with support for UPnP port forwarding (40)

Funding

The Molly.im project was seeking an additional $36K to develop its own Monero SDK for Android (41)
plowsof posted the final CCS coordinator progress report (42)
CM-IV submitted a CCS proposal to develop the ‘Oceanus Enterprise Resource Planning’ B2B XMR software (43)
v1docq47 submitted a new CCS proposal for 6 months (May-October 2023) of Russian voice-over and transcription work (44)
The Bulletproofs++ paper peer-review CCS proposal was put on hold after it was fully funded (45)
busyboredom’s ‘Standalone AcceptXMR’ CCS proposal was fully funded in ~10 days (46,47)
Lovera submitted a CCS progress report for February 2023 (48)
Isthmus cancelled his CCS proposal to do ‘computational work for OSPEAD parameterization’ (49)
Fierfek submitted a CCS proposal to advertise XMR and MoneroTopia in Mexico City (50)
BigmenPixel submitted a proposal to ‘verify’ and maintain the Monero GUI flatpak package for 1 more year, but the CCS was put ‘on hold’ due to ‘technical difficulties’ (51)
UkoeHB submitted a new CCS proposal for Seraphis ‘ongoing support’ (52)

Culture

Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 11th and 25th (53,54)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in March (55,56,57,58)
AnarkioCrypto launched ‘Kuno Fundraisers’ beta and open sourced the code (59)
rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #161-165 (60,61,62,63,64)
Monero Talk interviewed LocalMonero co-founder Alex, Sethforprivacy, Nick Watts, and Justin Ehrenhofer (65,66,67,68)
KYCNOT.me temporarily delisted the MajesticBank exchange (69)
Mental Outlaw announced the launch of his ‘Based.win’ XMR online store (70)
LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #43-47 (71,72,73,74,75)
Cake Labs launched ‘The Monero Minute’ short news show (76)

Community Messages (10/50)

[ANN] Audit of XMR reserves on April 18th - Mone(ro)Run (by MoneroFox) (77)
[ANN] ETH-XMR swaps update: the project is very close to a beta (mainnet) release (by elizabethereum) (78)
[ANN] Monerochan Plushy launches tomorrow 4:00pm UTC (by monerobull) (79)
[ANN] Hey all, I plan to disband the Monero Space LLC entity (by sgp) (80)
[AFH] [$5] Monero Philosopher Service (by ZincModern) (81)
[AFH] Website/Desktop/Mobile App User Interface (UI/UX) design (by Ashvrin) (82)
[LTH] [$100] Translators (Bulgarian, Finnish, Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, Thay, Korean) (by Trocador_App) (83)
[LTH] Someone very familiar with C# & Avalonia (by martinold) (84)
[WTS] Farmer-direct products with Monero, I’ve found farmers in: TN, TX, OH, ID, MO, AR, NorCal, SoCal, SC, IA, CO, Netherlands, Canada, Cuba (by DrunkDialMe_) (85)
[WTS] [$230] 10 oz Silver Bullion from MoneroSilver.com (by monerosilver) (86)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 86 Monero Observer Reports (87) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (88))
- updated Changelog (89) and XMR Stats (90)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 50 Community Messages and 16 Calendar events (91,92) & added 11 new Resources (93)
- published 2 Meeting summaries: MRL 1 & 8 March 2023 (94,95) and uploaded 15 meeting logs (MRL 2023-03-01, MRL 2023-03-08, MRL 2023-03-15, MRL 2023-03-22, MRL 2023-03-29, Community 2023-03-11, Community 2023-03-25, MoneroKon23 2023-03-04, Monerokon23 2023-03-11, Monerokon23 2023-03-18, Monerokon23 2023-03-25, Seraphis 2023-03-06, Seraphis 2023-03-13, Seraphis 2023-03-20, Seraphis 2023-03-27) (96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110)
(Bi)Weekly
- (SUN) published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 9-12, 2023) (111,112,113,114)
- (MON) published CT-014: Whonix virtual machines on Debian using KVM (115), CT-015: Monero lore compendium (116)
- (SAT) published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 9-12, 2023) (117,118,119,120)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #19 (February 2023) (121)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 20th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #19 - February 2023

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:

Breaking

HashVault.pro was in control of >40% of the total Monero network hashrate twice (1,2)
LocalMonero confirmed Russia was removed from the platform on February 1st (3)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in January (4,5,6,7)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 4 meetings (8,9,10,11)
rbrunner7’s ‘Developer Opportunities at the Monero Project’ post was deployed to Getmonero.org blog (12)
Monero v0.18.2.0 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was tagged (13)
SyntheticBird45 started working on ‘Cuprate’, an experimental Monero node written in Rust (14)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet version 2.4.0 with I2P support and v2.4.1 with several fixes and improvements (15,16)
XMRig v6.19.0 was released (17)
Cake Wallet/Monero.com v4.5.7/v1.2.6 & v4.5.8/v1.2.7 were released with several error reporting fixes and improvements (18,19)
hinto-janaiyo released Gupax v1.1.2 (20)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.0.61-1.0.65 were released (21,22,23)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for January 2023 (24)
DangerousFreedom1984 posted a progress report for their Seraphis CLI wallet and audit framework CCS proposal (25)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v1.5.38 with MajesticBank support and v1.5.44 with several fixes and improvements (26,27)
pluja created Nerostr, a ‘Nostr pay-to-relay Monero-based platform’ (28)
Justin Berman posted a second CCS progress report after ~382 hours of Monero dev work (29)
Cake Labs announced the release of Cake Wallet beta version for desktop (30)
SChernykh released P2Pool v3.1 (31)

Funding

Isthmus submitted a CCS proposal to do ‘computational work for OSPEAD parameterization’ (32)
busyboredom submitted a CCS proposal to create a ‘AcceptXMR-based payment gateway’ with WordPress support (33)
defeatoverseer proposed a bounty for ‘Overseer Attack’ countermeasures research (34)
DangerousFreedom1984 submitted a new Seraphis wallet development CCS proposal (35)
selsta’s part-time Monero dev work CCS proposal was fully funded (36,37)
Lovera’s third CCS proposal to produce Monero educational content in Spanish was fully funded (38,39)
tobtoht submitted a CCS proposal to continue full time Feather Wallet development for next 3 months, which was fully funded (40,41)
‘The Monero ATM Project’ was fully funded (42)
George Nicholas’s ‘Mark of distinction’ CCS proposal was fully funded (43,44)

Culture

Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 11th and 25th (45,46)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in February (47,48,49,50)
Monero Konferenco 2023 tickets went on sale (51)
Monero Magazine interviewed RandomX developer Howard Chu (52)
Monero Talk interviewed Alexander K. J. Schmidt, Eric Voskuil, Sergei Chernykh, and Justin Bons (53,54,55,56)
Trocador announced a new partnership with LocalMonero and started offering insurance on all trades via ‘Trocador Guarantee’ (57,58)
rottenwheel published 4 new Revuo Monero issues (#157-#160) (59,60,61,62)
ARIS announced a new ‘Monero-first’ exchange (63)
recanman published 4 new issues of The Monero Standard (#39-42) on LocalMonero (64,65,66,67)
MoneroTopia 2023 VIP tickets were sold out (68)

Community Messages (10/39)

[ANN] EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems (by wilderko) (69)
[ANN] Announcing MoneroMemes.com! Get tipped to make Monero memes! (by moneromemesd) (70)
[ANN] Finished the first draft of ‘Kuno Fundraisers’: A Monero-friendly KYC-free alternative to Gofundme/Kickstarter (by AnarkioCrypto) (71)
[ANN] I want to make it easy for Monero users to buy physical silver bullion. (by monerosilver) (72)
[LTH] Working monastery seeks ranch-hand/assistant (by Flashy-Hospital-3662) (73)
[LTH] C/C++ Dev for rewriting tx verification for GPU (by abdullahkhan) (74)
[LTH] Developers for privacy-focused cloud computing startup (by spectrehosting) (75)
[LTT] $5 worth of epic cash for $5 in XMR (by notmtth) (76)
[WTB] 1 OZ Silver Britannia from 1998 and/or from 2003 (Shipping to Germany) (by derbehr98) (77)
[WTS] [$130] Mitchell D120SB Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar (by BabyYoda90210) (78)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 76 Monero Observer Reports (79) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (80))
- updated Changelog (81) and XMR Stats (82)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 39 Community Messages and 14 Calendar events (83,84) & added 8 new Resources (85)
- uploaded 14 meeting logs (MRL 2023-02-01, MRL 2023-02-08, MRL 2023-02-15, MRL 2023-02-22, Community 2023-02-11, Community 2023-02-25, MoneroKon23 2023-02-04, Monerokon23 2023-02-11, Monerokon23 2023-02-18, Monerokon23 2023-02-25, Seraphis 2023-02-06, Seraphis 2023-02-13, Seraphis 2023-02-20, Seraphis 2023-02-27) (86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99)
- new meta post, updated contact-signed.txt (100)
Weekly
- (SUN) published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 5-8, 2023) (101,102,103,104)
- (MON) published CT-013: Moneranoj: Unite or ‘curb your cypherpunk’ (105)
- (SAT) published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 5-8, 2023) (106,107,108,109)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #18 (January 2023) (110)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 19th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: unfortunately I was unable to post more CT’s and meeting summaries this month due to some ongoing health issues; thanks for the continued support!

Monero Observer Blitz #18 - January 2023

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this January in the Monero community:

Breaking

P2Pool announced plans to hardfork to new consensus rules on March 18th at 21:00 UTC (1)
Getmonero.org was temporarily down for maintenance (2)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in January (3,4,5,6)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 5 meetings (7,8,9,10,11)
CypherStack started conducting Serai DEX cryptography audits (12)
Rucknium was calling out centralized mining pools for unnecessarily delaying XMR transaction confirmations by 60 seconds (13)
SChernykh released P2Pool v2.7/3.0 (14,15)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for December 2022 (16)
Feather Wallet introduced bootstrappable builds and support for Raspberry Pi, Linux ARM64 with v2.2.2 (17)
Justin Berman posted a CCS progress report after ~200 hours of Monero dev work (18)
The Farcaster Project released Farcaster Node versions 0.8.3/0.8.4 (19,20)
hinto-janaiyo released monero-bash v1.9.7 and Gupax v1.1.0/1.1.1 (21,22,23)
binarybaron released UnstoppableSwap GUI versions 0.4.0-0.4.6 (24,25,26,27)
m2049r released Monerujo v3.1.0 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ (28)
Cake Wallet v4.5.6/Monero.com v1.2.5 were released with support for Haven 3.0.0 ‘Athena’ (29)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v1.5.28 (30)
COMIT xmr-btc-swap v0.12.1 was released (31)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.0.46-1.0.51 were released (32,33,34)
EliteTechnologies announced Elite Wallet, a new multi-currency mobile wallet that supports XMR (35)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet versions 2.2.2/2.2.3/2.3.0 (36,37,38)
Trocador.app implemented ‘Monero Tunnels’ for swaps between transparent blockchains (39)
Ora_pro_vivis was looking for feedback on ‘semi transparent and auditable’ XMR wallet app Lumo (40)

Funding

plowsof posted a bounty for running the BLAKE2b test vector suite on Seraphis library implementation (41)
UkoeHB’s ‘long-term’ Seraphis library CCS proposal was moved to the next stage and funded in one week (42,43)
selsta submitted a CCS proposal for 3 more months of part-time Monero dev work until the end of April 2023 (44)
woodser opened 3 new Haveno bounties worth $700 (45)
George Nicholas submitted a CCS proposal to release ‘Mark of distinction’, an independent film featuring Monero (46)
uzern4m submitted a CCS proposal to create report ‘exploring the possibility’ of developing a Monero node in Rust (47)
Cake Wallet opened 11 new language bounties worth $150 each (48)
plowsof posted his second CCS coordinator progress report (49)
anhdres posted the first Monero Garden CCS progress report (50)
binarybaron completed the fourth milestone for the XMR-BTC atomic swap desktop GUI CCS proposal (51)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for December 2022-January 2023 (52)
CypherPunk Radio canceled the project’s CCS proposal (53)

Culture

Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 7th, 14th, and 28th (54,55,56)
There were 3 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in January (57,58,59)
Monero Magazine interviewed anhdres, Douglas Tuman, Rafael LaVerde, and Luke Smith (60,61,62,63,64)
Monero Talk interviewed DoingFedTime, Juraj Bednar, Tor Ekeland and Mike Hassard (65,66,67)
CryptoMorpheus_ published a new Moneroj.net article analyzing XMR metrics from 2022 (68)
rottenwheel published 4 new Revuo Monero issues (#153-#156) (69,70,71,72)
The Monero ATM Project team announced plans to complete work ‘until’ MoneroKon23 (73)
AnarkioCrypto was seeking feedback on the new Bitejo marketplace design (74)
John Foss published 2 new The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#60 & #61) (75,76)
NotMtth launched CypherPunk Radio (77)
A Monero Meet livestream took place on January 25 (78)
recanman published 4 new issues of The Monero Standard (#35-38) on LocalMonero (79,80,81,82)
monerobull, MajesticBank, and artlimber won the MAGIC Monero Fund 2023 election (83)
VentiSwap listed XMR/USDT and XMR/ETH swap pairs (84)

Community Messages (10/59)

[AFH] ShopinBit Concierge Service (by ShopinBit) (85)
[AFH] Anonymous Deliveries Via Amazon Lockers (by dgoon21) (86)
[ANN] Call for developers (TypeScript/JavaScript) (by An0-Nym) (87)
[ANN] Monero Dance: a new site for the community. News aggregator and portal to all things Monero (by themonerodance) (88)
[ANN] Prestium: Privacy-focused, i2p based live OS. Comes with official Monero wallet! (by Opicaak) (89)
[LTH] C Programmer Needed (by SynthLordVR) (90)
[LTT] [H] $85 monero [W] $85 btc or $90 cash app (by TheMayorOfMemes) (91)
[WTB] XMR with cash in greater Toronto area (by AlbertJohnson2) (92)
[WTS] Private equity investment in UK startup, Escape The City (by vs0x7) (93)
[WTS] [$1.9] TF2 keys (XMR -> Steam Balance ~1:1) (by thisguy) (94)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 89 Monero Observer Reports (95) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (96))
- updated Changelog (97) and XMR Stats (98)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 59 Community Messages and 15 Calendar events (99,100) & added 7 new Resources (101)
- published 3 Meeting summaries: Seraphis 2 & 16 January 2023, MRL 18 January 2023 (102,103,104) and uploaded 15 meeting logs (MRL 2023-01-04, MRL 2023-01-11, MRL 2023-01-18, MRL 2023-01-25, Community 2023-01-07, Community 2023-01-14, Community 2023-01-28, MoneroKon23 2023-01-14, Monerokon23 2023-01-21, Monerokon23 2023-01-28, Seraphis 2023-01-02, Seraphis 2023-01-09, Seraphis 2023-01-16, Seraphis 2023-01-23, Seraphis 2023-01-30) (105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119)
Weekly
- (SUN) published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 1-4, 2023) (120,121,122,123)
- (MON) published 2 Cypherpunk Transmission Reports (CT-011: Decoy wallets with seed offset passphrase in Monero CLI, CT-012: Plausible deniability with VeraCrypt hidden volumes in Tails) (124,125))
- (SAT) published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 1-4, 2023) (126,127,128,129)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #17 (December 2022) (130)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 18th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #17 - December 2022

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in December (1,2,3,4)
The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 3 meetings (5,6,7)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for November 2022 (8)
Trocador.app launched AnonPay fixed rate payment mode (9)
The Farcaster Project released Farcaster Node versions 0.5.0-0.8.2 (10,11,12,13)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.0.38-1.0.42 were released (14,15,16,17)
hinto-janaiyo released monero-bash v1.9.6 and Gupax v0.9.0/1.0.0 (18,19,20)
rehrar released Stack Wallet versions 1.5.23-1.5.27 (21,22)
Particl’s BasicSwap DEX open beta went live after ‘nearly two years of research and development’ (23)
ANONERO released ANON v0.3.2 (24)
binarybaron completed the third milestone for the XMR-BTC atomic swap desktop GUI CCS proposal (25)
pokkst released MyNero Wallet v0.4.1.1 (26)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.5.3/4.5.5 and Monero.com v1.2.2/1.2.4 (27,28)
Moneroj.net added a new Binance XMR withdrawal state chart (29)

Funding

The Monero Konferenco 2023 CCS proposal was fully funded (30)
plowsof posted his first CCS coordinator progress report (31)
UkoeHB submitted a long-term CCS proposal to continue working on the Seraphis library (32)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for October-November 2022 (33)
rehrar proposed a 2.5 (10) XMR bounty: ‘cross-compile flutter_libmonero for 64-bit Windows from Linux’ (34)
Lovera submitted his third CCS proposal to produce Monero educational content in Spanish (35)
nightwolf361 submitted a CCS proposal to create the ‘Empower Lebanon’ educational platform (36)
sausagenoods canceled the Metronero CCS proposal (37)
z00t submitted a CCS proposal to introduce ‘Blockchain Club’ college students to Monero (38)
Boog90 submitted a CCS proposal to build an alternative Monero node in Rust, only to close it the very next day (39)

Culture

Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 3rd and 17th (40,41)
There were 2 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in December (42,43)
Monero Talk interviewed Monero dev Justin Berman (44)
A Monero Meet livestream took place on December 20 (45)
TheStoicCoiner interviewed Sethforprivacy in the first episode of the new Monero Magazine podcast (46)
Silent Link started accepting Monero for anonymous eSim plans (47)
Monero Talk interviewed Dr Kapil and crypt0guard from Particl, BasicSwap DEX (48)
rottenwheel published 5 Revuo Monero issues (#148-#152) (49,50,51,52,53)
Monero Talk interviewed ‘Sal the Agorist’ (54)
Monero Magazine interviewed Justin Ehrenhofer (55)
John Foss published 2 The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#58 & #59) (56,57)
Monero Magazine interviewed Vanessa Harris (58)
Cake Labs announced a new ‘business-focused’ website (59)
savandra was looking for feedback on a new Monero animated video ‘rough draft’ (60)
XMRArtFund announced the new ‘Monerochan.io’ P2P tipping platform (61)
BitMart listed a new XMR/USDT trading pair (62)
HashVault.pro was pushed into the spotlight again by a ~340 MH/s ‘solo miner’ (63)
LocalMonero published 4 The Monero Standard issues (#31-34) (64,65,66,67)
Monero Magazine interviewed Juraj Bednar (68)
An anonymous contributor donated 100 XMR to the Monero General Fund (69)
Monero Talk interviewed BawdyAnarchist (70)

Community Messages (10/65)

[AFH] [£65+ p/h] Full Stack Darknet Development services based in the UK (by DarknetDevUK) (71)
[ANN] Document: Preliminary Seraphis Design Overview (by UkoeHB) (72)
[ANN] Paging Android Devs: Xmr PocketNode (by CryptoGrampy) (73)
[ANN] [VIDEO] How to become an open source and Monero developer (by spirobel) (74)
[LTH] [0.2-3 XMR] Atomic Swaps project is incentivizing new contributions with bounties! (by unstoppableswap) (75)
[WTB] A close to spot woman’s silver bracelet, an American Platinum Eagle ounce coin, and cheap silver! (by WelderSpecial9466) (76)
[WTS] [0.035-0.061 XMR] 3D Printed Monero Coins (by Fvaccine) (77)
[WTS] [$1950+] [EU-DE][CR] X1 Extreme Gen 4 i9/3080/32gb/1TB/4k [W] Local/CashApp/Zelle/XMR (by fintip) (78)
[WTS] [$7.95-49.95] ‘The Monero Standard’ book, XMR only (by TheStoicCoiner) (79)
[WTS] [$16.99+] iPhone 5 (16GB model) (by ArtL) (80)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 77 Monero Observer Reports (81) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (82))
- updated Changelog (83) and XMR Stats (84)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 65 Community Messages and 12 Calendar events (85,86) & added 15 new Resources (87)
- published Meeting summary: Monero Research Lab, 7 December 2022 (88) and uploaded 11 meeting logs (MRL 2022-12-07, MRL 2022-12-14, MRL 2022-12-21, MRL 2022-12-28, Community 2022-12-03, Community 2022-12-17, MoneroKon23 2022-12-10, Monerokon23 2022-12-17, Seraphis 2022-12-05, Seraphis 2022-12-12, Seraphis 2022-12-19) (89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99)
- published a meta report (100) (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (101)
Weekly
- (SUN) published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 48/49/50/51, 2022) (102,103,104,105)
- (MON) published 3 Cypherpunk Transmission Reports (CT-008: Mitigating dusting attacks in Monero CLI, CT-009: Running Tor obfs4 bridge relays, CT-010: Managing passwords, keys, and seeds) (106,107,108)
- (SAT) published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 48/49/50/51/52, 2022) (109,110,111,112,113)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #16 (November 2022) (114)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
plowsof for the consistent news pings
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors (shoutout to the anon that single-handedly fully funded my recent CCS, impressive!)
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 17th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #16 - November 2022

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this November in the Monero community:

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in November (1,2,3,4,5)
The new Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held its first 3 meetings (6,7,8)
Rucknium published a public version of the ‘Fully Specified Estimation Plan for OSPEAD’ document (9)
binarybaron completed the second milestone for the XMR-BTC atomic swap desktop GUI CCS proposal (10)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for October 2022 (11)
jeffro256 posted a dev update for Ocober 2022 (12)
MyMonero for Mobile v1.3.9 and MyMonero Desktop v1.3.4 were released (13)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.0.31-1.0.37 were released (14,15)
rehrar released multiple Stack Wallet versions (1.5.14-1.5.22), including the first Desktop version (1.5.19) (16,17,18,19)
The MCW video channel uploaded Justin Berman’s Seraphis/Jamtis and Amir Taaki’s DarkFi MoneroKon22 talks (20)
hinto-janaiyo released monero-bash v1.9.5 and Gupax v0.5.0 (21,22)
ANONERO released ANON v0.2.1-0.3.1 (23,24)
mj-xmr released SolOptXMR v0.4-rc1/0.4-rc2 & v0.4/0.4.1 with ‘security fixes’ (25,26)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.5.0/4.5.1 and Monero.com v1.2.0/1.2.1 (27,28)
Gingeropolous posted a new progress report for their Research Computing Upgrade CCS proposal (29)
MAGIC Monero Fund launched a new open-source crowdfunding platform (30)
MyNero Wallet v0.4.0 was released with I2P and seed offset support (31)
shermand100 was looking for PiNodeXMR contributors (32)
duggavo released MoneroBlock v0.1.2 (33)
spirobel open sourced his Monero Discourse Subscriptions plugin code (34)
According to noot’s latest dev update, the initial mainnet release for her ETH-XMR atomic swaps could be ready ‘in the next month or two’ (35)
SChernykh released P2Pool v2.6 (36)
The Farcaster Project released Farcaster Node v0.4.0 (37)

Funding

plowsof submitted a CCS proposal to get the Bulletproofs++ paper peer-reviewed (38)
j-berman’s CCS proposal to continue working full-time on Monero for 3 months was fully funded (39,40)
ajs-xmr submited a CCS proposal to fund MoneroKon 2023 (41)
selsta’s new CCS proposal for 3 more months of part-time Monero dev work until end of January 2023 was fully funded (42,43)
sausagenoods submitted a CCS proposal to create the Metronero XMR checkout system (44)
Panda submitted a CCS proposal to create Monero paper wallet designs (45)
LefterisJP canceled their CCS proposal to integrate Monero into Rotki (46)
The Monero Moon and monero-bash CCS proposals were closed (47)
hinto-janaiyo’s Gupax CCS proposal was fully funded (48)
lescuer97 submitted a CCS proposal to continue developing the xmr-btc-swap project (49)
NotMtth submitted a CCS proposal to create CypherPunk Radio (50)
plowsof’s CCS coordinator proposal was fully funded (51)
MoneroBro submitted a CCS proposal to develop the Monero.Shopping project (52)
Forgotsudo’s Merkato and mrcyjanek’s XMR payment processor CCS proposals were closed (53)
rayatina submitted a CCS proposal to maintain Monero source code archive in ‘Libre Library’ (54)

Culture

There were 2 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in November (55,56)
Two Community Workgroup Meetings took place on the 5th and 19th (57,58)
P2Pool’s hashrate reached a new all-time high (59)
Mochi101-Official sold the Monero.win gambling website to WildAndFreeXMR (60)
The community was looking for consensus on ‘official’ Monero color scheme (61)
rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#144-#147) (62,63,64,65)
The Monero CLI & GUI wallets were included in ‘first’ I2P-based Live OS (66)
Cake/Vik Sharma took over ErCiccione’s responsibilities after he left the Haveno ‘Core Team’ (67)
spirobel announced a new Monero remote worker site for Afghans (68)
sech1 started hosting a new Monero blockchain explorer (69)
Void Linux updated the Monero wallet packages to v0.18.1.2 (70)
AnarkioCrypto was looking for a team to ‘take over’ Bitejo marketplace (71)
Payment processor BitcartCC added Monero support (72)
Monero Talk interviewed Janice McAfee (73)
MoneroSupplies shop added a ‘Digital items’ section (74)
Monero celebrated 3 years of RandomX on November 30 (75)

Community Messages (10/52)

[AFH] I do illustration work, book covers, logos, conceptual art, and other design work (by PhiloAmandus) (76)
[AFH] Web development (custom dev or Wordpress), scripting, graphics & articles (by AnarkioCrypto) (77)
[ANN] MoneroKon2023: Call of Presentations is Live! Deadline: 3 Apr 2023 @ 00:00 UTC /w Notice of Acceptance by 18 Apr 2023 (by MoneroKon) (78)
[ANN] Please help the people of Iran (by Sara) (79)
[ANN] Monerochan Merchant RPC: New tool to accept Monero at your ecommerce business (by spirobel) (80)
[ANN] [Warning] Incoming payments can confirmed but locked on protocol level forever (by MajesticLabs) (81)
[LTH] Two people that can read and write well on Russian and Hindi to translate Trocador.app (by CryptoMorpheus_) (82)
[WTB] [$100-500] Gold, silver, and platinum for Monero (by WelderSpecial9466) (83)
[WTB] 1oz XMR Silver Coins (by CYANE431) (84)
[WTS] [$59-99 XMR] BusKill ‘Dead Man Switches’ (open-source hardware) (by maltfield) (85)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 87 Monero Observer Reports (86) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (87))
- updated Changelog (88) and XMR Stats (89)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 52 Community Messages and 13 Calendar events (90,91) & added 15 new Resources (92)
- published Meeting summary: Seraphis Wallet Workgroup, 14 November 2022 (93) and uploaded 12 meeting logs (MRL 2022-11-02, MRL 2022-11-09, MRL 2022-11-16, MRL 2022-11-23, MRL 2022-11-30, Community 2022-11-05, Community 2022-11-19, MoneroKon23 2022-11-12, Monerokon23 2022-11-26, Seraphis 2022-11-14, Seraphis 2022-11-21, Seraphis 2022-11-28) (94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105)
- created 3 new RSS feeds (106)
- minor layout fixes (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (107)
Weekly
- (SUN) published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 44/45/46/47, 2022) (108,109,110,111)
- (MON) published 4 Cypherpunk Transmission Reports (CT-004: GPG encrypted communication, CT-005: Contributing to Monero anonymously, CT-006: Setting up a public Onion Service, CT-007: Monero view-only wallets) (112,113,114,115)
- (SAT) published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 44/45/46/47, 2022) (116,117,118,119)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #15 (October 2022) (120)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for consistently delivering amazing art, pro bono publico
plowsof for the consistent news pings
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 16th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #15 - October 2022

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this October in the Monero community:

Breaking

LocalMonero discovered a malicious browser extension targeting XMR users (1)
monerodirectory stopped maintaining XmrMemes.com (2)
HashVault.pro was the top Monero pool for one day after an unexpected ~325% hashrate surge (3)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in October (4,5,6,7)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for September 2022 (8)
adrelanos upgraded the Whonix Monero wallets package to v0.18.1.2 (9)
pokkst released multiple MyNero Wallet versions (10,11)
Haveno v0.0.3 was released with breaking changes (12)
MyMonero for Mobile versions 1.3.7 & 1.3.8 were released (13,14)
CryptoMorpheus_ launched privacy-focused exchange aggregator ‘Trocador’ (15)
ANONERO released Android-only ‘black box Monero app’ ANON v0.1/0.1.1/0.2 (16,17,18)
Ora_pro_vivis was teasing Monero POS desktop app ‘Merchant’ (19)
Stack Wallet beta versions 1.5.0-1.5.10 were released (20,21,22)
m2049r released Monerujo v3.0.3 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ (23)
XMRig v6.18.1 was released (24)
LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps version 1.0.29 was released (25)
Monero Community Workgroup uploaded UkoeHB’s Seraphis code walkthrough video (26)
COMIT ‘xmr-btc-swap’ v0.11.1 was released (27)
Justin Berman posted the final progress report for his Monero dev work CCS proposal (28)
SChernykh released P2Pool v2.5 (29)

Funding

DangerousFreedom1984’s Seraphis CLI wallet CCS proposal was fully funded (30)
HackerIndustrial’s ‘MoneroSigner’ CCS proposal was fully funded (31)
v1docq47’s CCS proposal for Russian voice-over and transcription work was fully funded (32)
hinto-janaiyo submitted a CCS proposal to finish developing ‘Gupax’ (33)
anhdres’s ‘Monero Garden’ CCS proposal was fully funded (34)
larteyoh proposed a bounty for implementing peer discovery via Levin Protocol for ‘Neroshop’ (35)
LefterisJP submitted a CCS proposal to integrate Monero into Rotki portfolio manager (36)
plowsof’s CCS coordinator proposal was moved to the funding stage (37)

Culture

There were 3 MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meetings in October (38,39,40)
A Community Workgroup Meeting took place on October 22 (41)
Monero Talk interviewed former VC Dan Tubb from ‘Dissident Factor’ (42)
CryptoMorpheus_ published an XMR adoption metrics report on Moneroj.net for the month of September 2022 (43)
rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#140-#143) (44,45,46,47)
Monero Talk interviewed ‘Bitcoin Argentina’ NGO co-founder Franco Amati (48)
Monero Talk announced ‘StealthEX’ as their new sponsor (49)
TheStoicCoiner was looking to release ‘The Monero Standard’ book (50)
Monero Talk interviewed popular Monero artist Crypt0-bear (51)
Monero Talk interviewed ‘Students For Liberty’ CEO Dr. Wolf von Laer (52)
Cake Wallet was confirmed as a new Monero sponsor (53)
Monero Talk interviewed Lyn Ulbricht (54)
pokkst created a Pleroma instance dedicated to Monero users (55)
mister-rrr launched a new XMR merchant directory website (56)
The next MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meeting was scheduled for 12 November 2022 (57)
The next Community Workgroup Meeting was scheduled for 5 November 2022 (58)

Community Messages (10/41)

[AFH] [£65 p/h] Full Stack Darknet Development services based in the UK (by DarknetDevUK) (59)
[ANN] Request for information regarding MONERO DISTRIBUTION CORPORATION and the trademark applications filed in its name (by geonic1) (60)
[ANN] Discussion: Community Nodes and Request For Volunteers (by jeffro256) (61)
[ANN] XMR.beauty services: Searx, Invidious, VPN & email (by xmr.beauty) (62)
[ANN] Monerotopia is looking for someone new to do the weekly Monero Price Report! (by sunchakr) (63)
[ANN] The PoC for Metronero is here (it’s stagenet) (by Siren) (64)
[ANN] Building Bitcoin and Monero Circular Economies (by AnarkioCrypto) (65)
[LTH] Gratuitas seeking a roaster in Europe (by sustainthyself) (66)
[WTB] Ebay GCs [H] 85% Monero (by dudeitsduo) (67)
[WTS] (Used) Logitech G203 LIGHTSYNC Gaming Mouse, Kindle Paperwhite 6th Generation, SuperCard DSTWO NDS Flashcard, iPhone 7 PRODUCT RED 128GB Unlocked (by MoneroMeansMoney212) (68)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 71 Monero Observer Reports (69) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (70))
- updated Changelog (71) and XMR Stats (72)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 41 Community Messages and 9 Calendar events (73,74) & added 8 new Resources (75)
- published 1 MRL Meeting Log Summary Report (MRL 2022-10-05) (76) and uploaded 8 meeting logs (MRL 2022-10-05, MRL 2022-10-12, MRL 2022-10-19, MRL 2022-10-26, Community 2022-10-22, MoneroKon23 2022-10-01, Monerokon23 2022-10-15, Monerokon23 2022-10-29) (77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84)
- created new Cypherpunk Transmission series (85)
- published CT-001: Threat modeling demystified, CT-002: Building from source - Monero CLI, CT-003: Basic server security (86,87,88)
- minor style and font changes (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (89)
Weekly
- (SUN) published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 39/40/41/42/43, 2022) (90,91,92,93,94)
- (MON) published 1 (final) weekly MO XMR TA Report (Week 39) (95)
- (SAT) published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 39/40/41/42/43, 2022) (96,97,98,99,100)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #14 (September 2022) (101)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for consistently delivering amazing art, pro bono publico
plowsof for the consistent news pings
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 15th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #14 - September 2022

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this September in the Monero community:

Breaking

tevador proposed a ‘radical idea for forward secrecy and instant wallet sync’ (1)
Huobi Global announced plans to delist XMR and other ‘privacy tokens’ on September 19 2022 (2)
‘OFAC and others exceeded their authority in sanctioning open-source technology’, according to a Monero Policy Working Group report (3)
Monero CLI & GUI versions 0.18.1.1 & 0.18.1.2 Fluorine Fermi were released (4,5)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in September (6,7,8,9)
ACK-J completed their MAGIC-funded research proposal (10)
MoneroPay payment gateway v2.2.0 was released (11)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for August 2022 (12)
DangerousFreedom1984 posted their third and final CCS progress report (13)
busyboredom released AcceptXMR v0.11.1 (14)
hinto-janaiyo released multiple monero-bash versions (1.9.0-1.9.4) (15,16,17,18,19)
pokkst forked the Monerujo wallet codebase and released multiple MyNero versions (20,21,22,23)
Kuyumcu fixed Monero-Nano swaps on their custodial exchange (24)
Justin Berman posted a CCS progress report after ~268 hours of Monero dev work (25)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.4.6/4.4.7 and Monero.com v1.1.0/1.1.1 (26,27)
vdo released xmr.sh v0.4.0 (28)
Haveno released version 0.0.2 of its test network (29)
PepperyPanda announced the Monero Node Dashboard application (30)
rehrar announced the beta version of Stack Wallet and released v1.4.49/1.4.52 (31,32,33)
Enterprise-grade Monero wallet RINO went live on mainnet (34)
Rucknium completed the first milestone for their OSPEAD CCS proposal (35)
CryptoGrampy released PocketNode v0.3.0-alpha (36)
jeffro256 posted the first monthly progress report for their Monero dev work CCS proposal (37)
MyMonero v1.3.4 was released (38)
SChernykh released P2Pool v2.4 (39)

Funding

Haveno requested the release of the remaining CCS funds to resume UI development (40)
DangerousFreedom1984 submitted a new CCS proposal to help develop a Seraphis CLI wallet and audit framework, which was moved to the funding stage (41,42,43)
Haveno opened 4 new bounties worth 2.5 XMR (44)
v1docq47 submitted a new CCS proposal for Russian voice-over and transcription work (45)
noot’s ETH-XMR atomic swap GoFundMe fundraiser campaign was fully funded (46)
HackerIndustrial’s and monero_archive’s CCS proposals were moved to the funding stage (47)
mrcyjanek submitted a CCS proposal to develop a self-hostable Monero payment processor (48)
anhdres submitted a CCS proposal to create the Monero Garden educational website (49)

Culture

John Foss published The Monero Moon newsletter issue #57 (50)
The Monero Talk team was looking to organize a Halloween privacy protest in Washington Square Park (51)
rottenwheel published 5 Revuo Monero issues (#135-#139) (52,53,54,55,56)
An anon donated 2500 XMR to the Monero General Fund (57)
tvyracd announced the launch of the XMR Free Market platform (58)
Monero Talk interviewed Monero Policy Working Group member Andrea Togni (59)
CryptoMorpheus_ published an XMR adoption metrics report on Moneroj.net for the month of August 2022 (60)
Nautilus Nano wallet was planning to add XMR support in v0.6.4 (61)
Synthetix announced a new XMR perpetual futures market (62)
The first MoneroKon 2023 Planning Meeting took place on September 17 (63)
A Community Workgroup Meeting took place on September 24 (64)
Monero Talk interviewed Clyde Vanel on the legislative environment around Monero in NYS (65)
Spirobel interviewed Andres from Monerujo (66)
Monero Boating Club created Granny’s Guide to Monero (67)

Community Messages (10/56)

[AFH] Let me turn you, your friends, or your family into famous yellow-style characters! (by viktormmm) (68)
[ANN] Anarkio Crypto on building a circular economy with Monero (by spirobel) (69)
[ANN] PSA: MoneroAddress.org has changed [WARNING] (by KnowledgeMurky9635) (70)
[ANN] LF someone to represent and come speak for the Monero community at ‘The Greater Reset 4’ event (by ramiroro) (71)
[ANN] We’re happy to announce the initial publication of our Monero transaction library (by SeraiDEX) (72)
[LTH] [$500 XMR] C++ programmer to port my GUI application to web using Emscripten/WebAssembly (by jkinnof) (73)
[LTT] ETH for XMR (by MerCyAlexis) (74)
[WTB] 40k Genestealer Cults, AOS Sons of Behemat, Kragnos, Kings of War halflings [Loc] Fl,USA (by glacius) (75)
[WTS] Used pinephone postmarketOS convergence edition w/ keyboard case: $200 CAD / $150 USD, negotiable (monero preferred) (by Extra-Improvement-40) (76)
[WTS] Alienware M15 R4 $1,300 (XMR) (by random42424) (77)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 80 Monero Observer Reports (78) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (79))
- updated Changelog (80) and XMR Stats (81)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 56 Community Messages and 7 Calendar events (82,83) & added 7 new Resources and 1 Blacklist item (84,85)
- published 1 MRL Meeting Log Summary Report (MRL 2022-09-14) (86) and uploaded 6 meeting logs (MRL 2022-09-07, MRL 2022-09-14, MRL 2022-09-21, MRL 2022-09-28, Community 2022-09-24, MoneroKon23 2022-09-17) (87,88,89,90,91,92)
- published a new guide 101 things Monero can buy (93)
- minor CSS improvements (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (94)
Weekly
- (SUN) published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 35/36/37/38, 2022) (95,96,97,98)
- (MON) published 4 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 35/36/37/38) (99,100,101,102)
- (SAT) published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 35/36/37/38, 2022) (103,104,105,106)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #13 (August) (107)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for consistently delivering amazing art, pro bono publico
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 14th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #13 - August 2022

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this August in the Monero community:

Breaking

Monero v0.18.1.0 Fluorine Fermi was released (1)
MineXMR finally closed down on August 19 after a one-week delay ‘to give more time for miners to switch pools’ (2)
The Monero v15 network upgrade was successful (3)
The Dread staff issued an urgent ‘exit scam’ warning after MajesticBank’s subdread and main admin account were wiped ‘without any explanation’ (4)

R&D

There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in August (5,6,7,8,9)
selsta posted a July 2022 Monero dev report (10)
hinto-janaiyo released multiple monero-bash versions (1.7.0-1.8.3) (11,12,13)
busyboredom released AcceptXMR v0.11.0 (14)
binarybaron completed the first milestone for the XMR-BTC atomic swap desktop GUI CCS proposal (15)
The Farcaster Project released Farcaster Node v0.3.0 (16)
COMIT released a new xmr-btc-swap version (0.11.0) which updates to Monero v0.18.0.0 (17)
MAGIC Monero Fund started a GoFundMe fundraiser campaign for noot’s ETH-XMR atomic swaps project (18)
Cake Wallet, Edge, Monero.com, Monerujo and MyMonero released new versions compatible with the v15 Monero network upgrade (19)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.1.0 (20)
Haveno announced the launch of its test network (v0.0.1) (21)
The AgoraDesk and LocalMonero mobile apps were released into open beta testing in celebration of 5-year anniversary (22)
SChernykh released P2Pool v2.3 (23)
Version 13.2.0 of the MMGen online/offline command-line cryptocurrency wallet was released (24)

Funding

tobtoht’s CCS proposal to continue developing Feather Wallet for 3 months was fully funded (25)
selsta’s CCS proposal to continue working part-time on Monero development for 3 more months until the end of October 2022 was fully funded (26,27)
monero_archive submitted a CCS proposal to maintain a Monero Github code ‘archive’ for 1 year (28)
UkoeHB submitted a new CCS proposal to build the core Seraphis library, which was successfully funded (29,30)
ForgotSudo was looking to release a Monero USB flash drive and submitted a CCS proposal to build the Merkato XMR marketplace plugin for the Onionr network (31,32)

Interviews

Monero Talk interviewed Luke Parker on developing Serai DEX (33)
Monero Talk interviewed Viktor Vecsei of IVPN (34)
Monero Talk interviewed Goldback’s Benjamin Shaffer (35)

Culture

Monthly Monero transactions reached a new ATH in July with 963,209 confirmed (36)
AllArk.io started accepting XMR for Prepaid Visa virtual debit cards and various gift cards (37)
Cake Wallet launched the Cake Pay gift card marketplace (38)
John Foss published 4 The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#53-#56) (39,40,41,42)
v1docq47 posted a CCS progress report for June-July 2022 (43)
CryptoMorpheus_ published an XMR adoption metrics report on Moneroj.net for the month of July 2022 (44)
rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#131-#134) (45,46,47,48)
monerobull won MAGIC Grants’s ‘special election’ for the MAGIC Monero Fund (49)
Kivojo published 1 The Monero Standard issue (#22) (50)
moneromooo-monero submitted a PR to remove Cake Wallet from Getmonero.org (51)
Binance announced their support for the v15 Monero mainnet hard fork (52)
Exodus Wallet released desktop version 22.8.26 with support for Monero network upgrade, after expected delay (53,54)
Daily Monero transactions reached a new ATH on August 12 with 61,305 confirmed (55)
CryptoMorpheus_ built 8 new charts for Moneroj.net (56)
Spirobel created a Monero testnet tutorial video (57)
The MyMonero and Edge lightweight Monero wallets were added back to Getmonero.org after a temporary removal (58,59)

Community Messages (10/56)

[AFH] 3d Modeling / Mechanical Design Services (by strangefolk) (60)
[ANN] Alternative dashboard for P2Pool & Mini (by skzap) (61)
[ANN] XMPP Group Chat & Introduction (by MobiPrivacyActivist) (62)
[ANN] Monero Freelance Site Project (looking to collaborate) (by ryitnoise) (63)
[LTH] Someone to write a Python script: 0.15 XMR (by xmrack) (64)
[WTB] Solar products (panels, inverters, controllers, etc) or LiFePO4 batteries (by CryptoGrampy) (65)
[WTS] MACBOOK PRO 2015 (by MoneroMixing) (66)
[WTB] 1oz Gold bars, or Kruger Rands (by opticbit) (67)
[WTS] The Monero 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: $25 (by eMoneyMerchcom) (68)
[WTS] Master and Commander (1st edition) 8 XMR (by ProfessorCrumbledore) (69)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 74 Monero Observer Reports (70) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (71))
- updated Changelog (72) and XMR Stats (73)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 56 Community Messages and 5 Calendar events (74,75) & added 5 new Resources (76)
- published 1 Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summary Report (MRL 2022-08-10) (77) and uploaded 5 meeting logs (MRL 2022-08-03, MRL 2022-08-10, MRL 2022-08-17, MRL 2022-08-24, MRL 2022-08-31) (78,79,80,81,82)
- minor stats bar / CM section CSS tweaks (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (83)
Weekly
- (SUN) published 4 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 31/32/33/34, 2022) (84,85,86,87)
- (MON) published 5 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 30/31/32/33/34) (88,89,90,91,92)
- (SAT) published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 31/32/33/34, 2022) (93,94,95,96)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #12 (July) (97)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for consistently delivering amazing art, pro bono publico
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 13th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: Happy 1st B-DAY, Monero Observer! Onward.

Monero Observer Blitz #12 - July 2022

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this July in the Monero community:

Breaking

matejcik announced that Monero Trezor users will experience ‘four days of service disruption’ after v15 HF (1)
Unstoppable Domains user email addresses were exposed to ‘an unauthorized third party’ (2)
BTCPay Server released v1.6.1, which fixed a critical altcoins integration issue also affecting XMR merchants (3)
Huobi Global announced plans to suspend XMR deposits and withdrawals on July 16 (4)
Monero v0.18.0.0 Fluorine Fermi was released (5)
The largest Monero mining pool, MineXMR, announced plans to close the pool on August 12, just before the v15 Monero network upgrade (6)

R&D

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in July (7,8,9,10)
selsta posted a June 2022 Monero dev report (11)
ACK-J posted a June 2022 update for their MAGIC-funded research proposal (12)
DangerousFreedom1984 submitted a second CCS progress report (13)
SChernykh released P2Pool v2.2.1 (14)
tobtoht released Feather Wallet v2.0.0 (15)
Several MyMonero for Mobile versions were released (v1.2.6-v1.2.10) (16,17,18)
Justin Berman submitted a new CCS proposal to continue development work on Monero for 3 more months (19)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.4.3 and Monero.com v1.0.7 (20)
garth-xmr proposed moving versioning for the Monero software to 1.0 (21)
mj-xmr announced v0.2 beta pre-release of SolOptXMR (22)
Gingeropolous posted the first progress report for their Research Computing Upgrade CCS proposal (23)
MPodom352 announced the release of p2pool-report (24)

Funding

binarybaron’s XMR-BTC atomic swap desktop GUI CCS proposal was fully funded (25)
LeoNero canceled their Monero dev work CCS proposal (26)
MAGIC Grants introduced a new MAGIC Memberships program (27)
v1docq47 submitted a new CCS proposal to continue creating videos and translating Monero content into Russian for 6 months (28)
noot briefly opened a second CCS proposal to continue developing ETH-XMR atomic swaps for 4 months, before closing it to ‘go with a MAGIC Monero Fund grant instead’ (29)
CryptoMorpheus_ canceled the Moneroj.net CCS proposal and deployed new charts and site improvements for free (30)
tobtoht submitted a CCS proposal to continue developing Feather Wallet for 3 months, which was moved to the funding stage (30,31)
hinto-janaiyo submitted a new CCS proposal to finish developing monero-bash v2.0.0 (32)
Haveno announced Beldex project as their new sponsor (33)
jberman’s and jeffro256’s CCS proposals were fully funded (34)
michaelizer submitted a CCS proposal to translate Moneropedia and ‘Behavioral Finance, Cryptocurrency Markets’ subtitles to Spanish (35)
selsta submitted a new CCS proposal for 3 more months of part-time Monero dev work until the end of October 2022 (36)
John Foss submitted a CCS proposal to fund the next 18 issues of The Monero Moon newsletter (#53-#70) (37)

Interviews

Monero Talk interviewed Bruce Fenton and Starr O’Hara at PorcFest 2022 (38)
DarkFi dev Rachel-Rose O’Leary stated that ‘Monero is better than Zcash’ in an interview with Justin Murphy (39)
Monero Talk interviewed Giacomo Zucco and Sethforprivacy (40)
Crypto Vigilante uploaded a MoneroKon22 backstage interview with Justin Ehrenhofer (41)
Douglas Tuman was invited to discuss Monero on a main stage panel at Freedom Fest 2022 (42)
Monero Talk interviewed Margot Paez on exploring Bitcoin & Monero (43)
The Web3 Podcast interviewed AlexAnarcho on Monero and crypto-anarchism (44)

Culture

bashkyc launched The Boating Accident Support Hotline onionsite (45)
anarkiocrypto created an inspiring Monero informational webpage (46)
Kivojo published 4 The Monero Standard issues (#18-#21) (47,48,49,50)
Daily Monero transactions reached a new ATH with 46,993 confirmed (51)
rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#127-#130) (53,52,54,55)
John Foss published 4 The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#49-#52) (56,57,58,59)
Justin Ehrenhofer asked the Monero community to decide what to do with Defcon supplies before LV storage contract ends on July 31 (60)
kayabaNerve was teasing the Serai Monero DEX (61)
TickTock_Boom set up xmr.works, a Monero informative website for Turkish people (62)
The MoneroMarket project launched their website (63)
CryptoMorpheus_ published an in-depth XMR metrics article and built 3 new Moneroj.net charts (64)
Cake Labs announced that kayabaNerve will present the Serai DEX in a NYC Monero Meetup on August 9th (65)
MyMonero announced that fluffypony will attend a Cape Town Monero Meetup on August 4th (66)
A Monero Community Workgroup meeting took place on July 30 (67)
The Piconeroj.eu XMR/WOW P2P marketplace was ready for beta testers (68)
The Monero community decided to disallow translation CCS proposals ‘pending system redesign’ (69)

Community Messages (10/51)

[ANN] How Monero is Eating Bitcoin’s Lunch – And Ten Other Things You Didn’t Know About Monero. (by johnfoss69) (70)
[ANN] Opt Out Podcast: Live Q&A with Seth For Privacy (by sethforprivacy) (71)
[WTS] PentesterLab Pro voucher codes for 1 month & 1 year - 20 & 200 EUR (XMR accepted) (by dys2p_official) (72)
[ANN] Debating Alex from LocalMonero on cryptocurrency and corrupted YouTubers [The Hated One] (by Alex_LocalMonero) (73)
[ANN] I want to host free donation pages for people who contribute but have sub-par hardware (by plowsof) (74)
[ANN] There are some invoices that came late, need community approval, but we don’t have meetings anymore. (by binaryFate) (75)
[LTH] Help out the MoneroTalk/Monerotopia team! (by sunchakr) (76)
[WTB] 3D printed Jstark figurine (by TheCherryShrimp) (77)
[AFH] Chemical and chemical engineering consulting and tutoring (by GangstaShibe) (78)
[WTS] The Gulag Archipelago: complete 3 volumes (shipping from USA) (by muybienfrutas) (79)

My personal contributions

Daily
- published 84 Monero Observer Reports (80) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (81))
- updated Changelog (82) and XMR Stats (83)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 51 Community Messages and 5 Calendar events (84,85) & added 5 new Resources (86)
- published 1 Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summary Report (MRL 2022-07-13) (87) and uploaded 5 meeting logs (MRL 2022-07-06, MRL 2022-07-13, MRL 2022-07-20, MRL 2022-07-27, Community 2022-07-30) (88,89,90,91,92)
- created a new Blacklist section (93,94) (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (95)
Weekly
- (SUN) published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 26/27/28/29/30, 2022) (96,97,98,99,100)
- (MON) published 4 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 26/27/28/29) (101,102,103,104)
- (SAT) published 5 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 26/27/28/29/30, 2022) (105,106,107,108,109)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #11 (June) (110)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks for their encrypted emails and XMPP (OMEMO) messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for consistently delivering amazing art, pro bono publico
all anon MO loyal readers and generous CCS contributors
hard working people that keep building and maintaining cool stuff for the Monero community

That’s it for the 12th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: It’s crazy to think that I’ve been working every single day on this project for almost a year (since August 2021). Thanks for your continued support, stay cypherpunk!

Monero Observer Blitz #11 - June 2022

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this June in the Monero community:

HackerIndustrial submitted a CCS proposal to build MoneroSigner (1)
OrangeFren project announced the addition of their new Guarantee service (2)
Cake Labs added an option to buy and sell XMR with fiat on the Monero.com website (3)
melon_crust launched the Learn Monero course website (4)
John Foss published 4 new The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#45-#48) (5,6,7,8)
ACK-J posted a May 2022 update for their MAGIC-funded research proposal (9)
Monero Talk interviewed Elizabeth Binks on developing ETH-XMR atomic swaps (10)
selsta posted a May 2022 Monero dev report (11)
vdo released xmr.sh v0.3.1 (12)
The community held 2 final MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meetings (13,14)
There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in June (15,16,17,18,19)
v1docq47 posted an April-May 2022 CCS progress report (20)
HackerIndustrial created a MoneroDice-WalletGen script that generates offline XMR wallet seeds by rolling dice (21)
spackleXMR published a video in which he goes through the Elliptic Curve Cryptography section of the Zero to Monero: Second Edition e-book (22)
fatalglory published the code for his monero-tx-scanner npm package on Github (23)
hennyh won xmrvsbeast’s bounty for restoring bounties.monero.social functionality (24)
xmrvsbeast proposed a bounty for adding a P2Pool mining feature to the Monero GUI Wallet in Simple mode (25)
Monero entered its tail emission era on June 9th at 00:28:57 UTC, after block 2641623 was mined (26)
rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#123-#126) (27,28,29,30)
vdo released xmr.sh v0.3.3 with Arm64 and monero-lws support (31)
xmrvsbeast proposed a bounty for adding a P2Pool statistical mining dashboard to the Monero GUI Wallet (32)
Monero Talk has uploaded video and audio clips from the 2022 Libertarian National Convention (LNC22) (33)
bordecraft managed to run a Monero node on their Steam Deck (34)
noot published an ETH-XMR atomic swaps protocol document and completed the 6th milestone for her CCS proposal (35)
larteyoh was looking to open a paid bounty program for the development of Neroshop, an online marketplace for Monero users (36)
Cake Labs founder Vik Sharma was looking to give away his 2 personal MoneroKon22 VIP tickets to winners of a Monero Trivia Night game (37)
Haveno temporarily suspended UI development, blaming XMR bears (38)
Kivojo published 3 The Monero Standard issues (#15-#17) (39,40)
Daily Monero transactions reached a new all-time high with 42,244 confirmed (41)
Ghostnet announced their new Monero-focused P2P platform (42)
Haveno allocated a 2 XMR bounty for restoring the Funds tab of the legacy Bisq desktop app UI (43)
There was one Monero Development Workgroup meetings this month (45)
Cake Wallet was looking to launch a gift card marketplace within the next month (46)
l0nelyc0w shared a design document that visualizes how PenumbraDEX will operate (47)
mjxmr posted a May-June 2022 Monero dev report (48)
kayabNerve shared the Monero Secret Sharing PoC tool, which provides a way to back up an XMR wallet among trusted parties (49)
benevanoff shared a demo for the Simpla Vendejo Monero e-commerce web app (50)
MasFlam open sourced the code for the MoneroChad Discord bot (51)
valldrac announced that the Molly.im project will not meet proposed deadlines (52)
SoiledCold5 submitted a CCS proposal to add XMR and WOW to Garlix.io and GarlixPay (53)
john_r365 proposed a bounty for improving the bounties.monero.social website (54)
Monero Community Workgroup started uploading videos from MoneroKon22 (55)
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz submitted two CCS proposals to distribute merchandise and serve Monero content at DEF CON 30 (56)
XMRig v6.18.0 was released with support for the upcoming v15 Monero network upgrade (57)
Justin Berman posted the third and final Monero dev progress report for his Feb-May 2022 CCS proposal (58)
Elizabeth completed the final milestone for her ETH-XMR atomic swaps CCS proposal (59)
rbrunner7 published a new fictional Monero short story titled The Treasurer (60)
MAGIC Grants was holding a MAGIC Monero Fund special election in wake of Vik Sharma’s voluntary resignation (61)
pokkst created the Monero Decoy Scanner Python script (62)
savandra’s CCS proposal to create Monero animated videos was almost fully funded (63)
LeoNero submitted a CCS proposal for 2 months of full-time Monero dev work (64)
Peter McCormack uploaded WBD episode 520: Privacy on Monero vs Bitcoin with Seth for Privacy (65)
New Exodus Wallet release added support for Monero on the Trezor (66)
SChernykh released P2Pool v2.2 (67)
Monero’s v15 hard fork was rescheduled to August 13th 2022 at block 2688888 (68)

My personal contributions:

published 4 weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 22/23/24/25, 2022) (69,70,71,72)
published 4 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 22/23/24/25) (73,74,75,76)
published May 2022 MO Blitz Report: #10 (77)
published 76 daily Monero Observer Reports & listed 60 Community Messages and 8 Calendar events (78,79) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (80))
published 4 weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 22/23/24/25, 2022) (81,82,83,84)
published 2 on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summary Reports (MRL 2022-06-08 & MRL 2022-06-22)(85,86)
created Cheat Sheet: Monero CLI Wallet (87) and updated Resources, Calendar, Messages, Reports, Stats (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (88)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks that keep sending me encrypted emails and messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
all anon MO loyal readers and CCS contributors

That’s it for the 11th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #10 - May 2022

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this May in the Monero community:

hinto-janaiyo released monero-bash v1.5 and completed the associated CCS proposal (1)
There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in May (2,3,4,5)
noot completed the 3rd milestone for her XMR-ETH atomic swaps CCS proposal (6)
SChernykh released P2Pool v2.0 & v2.1 with support for the upcoming v15 Monero network upgrade (7,8)
ACK-J posted an April 2022 update for their MAGIC-funded research proposal (9)
rbrunner7 published Numerator, a fiction short story about RandomX (10)
Sethforprivacy proposed exploring trustless zk-SNARKs as a replacement for Monero ring signatures (11)
Haveno invited Monero community to suggest crypto and fiat assets to be paired with XMR on their platform (12)
There were 2 Monero Development Workgroup meetings this month (13,14)
XMR was the most used cryptocurrency on Coincards in the USA in April 2022 (15)
Zombie Master announced Xmrstarter, a hosted crowdfunding platform for Monero (16)
John Foss published 4 new The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#41-#44) (17,18,19,20)
AnonimaUzanto created Python Monero Database Reader utility (21)
Mallorca Blockchain Days conference was looking for an EU-based Monero speaker for July 14-17 event (22)
rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#119-#122) (23,24,25,26)
Douglas Tuman was looking to host a Monero Tail Emission Day Meetup event in New York City on June 8th, 2022 (27)
akimayumi released a mainnet APK for the alpha-state Shruum Monero wallet (28)
m0n3r0d1c3 started working on Mokazino, a Monero dice casino (29)
binarybaron released UnstoppableSwap GUI v0.3.0 with Tor integration (30)
HobbDogg72 was selling premium 19x Monero 2” stickers & 24x 3” magnets purchased from Stickermule (31)
Mochi101-Official was taking offers on Monero.style domain (32)
savandra was looking for feedback for their animated videos CCS proposal (33)
aue_sum offered to build websites and bots for XMR (34)
evtotherett was looking to buy 5 oz silver bars for XMR (35)
LibreTube project started accepting Monero donations (36)
Monerotopia episode 62 featured Sethforprivacy as special guest (37)
LocalMonero published Sethforprivacy’s How Monero uniquely enables circular economies article (38)
The community held 4 MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meetings (39,40,41,42)
Slipfox_xyz was looking to sell TF2 keys for XMR (43)
mjxmr posted an April-May 2022 Monero dev report (44)
tobtoht was looking for Feather Wallet logo redesign feedback (45)
CryptoMorpheus_ submitted a CCS proposal to improve Moneroj.net (46)
Gingeropolous submitted the Research Computing Upgrade CCS proposal (47)
Haveno posted a May 2022 progress update, was looking for Java developers (48)
There were 3 Community Workgroup Meetings in May (49,50,51)
Cake Wallet was looking to hire experienced wallet developers (52)
plowsof created a Python script for Monero meeting moderators (53)
xmrvsbeast proposed a 5 XMR bounty to fix bounties.monero.social site (54)
gambit_official wanted to sell a Razer Book 13 & OnePlus 7 Pro for XMR (55)
Monero Talk interviewed Christopher Gronski on State vs Federal Citizenship and Monero (56)
mystic_swole was looking to sell silver, bronze coins for XMR (57)
m2049r released Monerujo Baldaŭ v2.4.2 & v2.4.3 (58,59)
monerobull introduced a new guerrilla funding option on the monerosupplies.com shop (60)
SChernykh set up P2Pool testnet in preparation for Monero v15 hardfork (61)
Majesticbank sponsored getmonero.org $6K USD hosting fees for 3 months (May-July) (62)
akimayumi released Shruum Wallet v1.1.1/1.1.6 & v1.2.0 (63, 64)
Binance added XMR as Collateral Asset on Binance Loans platform (65)
Ricardo Martinez from Bitrefill interviewed Monero Talk host Douglas Tuman (66)
ForgotSudo posted an Onionr project update (67)
td4guy was looking to sell an iPhone 12 Mini for XMR (68)
Gingeropolous created a funny cartoon explaining Monero view tags (69)
P2Pool Mini sidechain reached 1000 active miners (70)
MasFlam was looking to get hired for PL/RU/EN translation work in exchange for XMR (71)
nedutech22 was selling various gift cards for Monero (72)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of part-time Monero dev work (73)
Tickets to the MoneroKon 2022 annual conference sold out in less than 6 weeks (74)
UkoeHB’s second Seraphis wallet PoC CCS proposal was fully funded (75)
MoneyRepresentative3 was looking to sell an S21 Ultra for $700 equivalent of XMR (76)
MyMonero announced a new partnership with Guardarian (77)
Sethforprivacy invited the community to test upcoming Monero release for bugs using his Ubuntu Docker image (78)
bawdyanarchist posted the Using Data Science to Identify the Bottom thread (79)
A MoneroKon 2022 waiting list was made available (80)
Monero Talk interviewed Braddon candidate Duncan White on running to save Australia from dystopia (81)
pluja announced a new and improved version of the ISeeYour.cash experimental search engine project (82)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.4.1 and Monero.com v1.0.6 (83)
hinto-janaiyo released monero-gpg script (84)
noot completed the 5th milestone for her XMR-ETH atomic swaps CCS proposal (85)
spirobel created monero-playground Bash script collection to help users play with monero-wallet-rpc (86)
freeteabet was selling a MacBook Pro 16 Inch M1 Pro base model for 10.8 XMR (87)
binarybaron submitted a second CCS proposal to continue developing XMR-BTC atomic swap desktop GUI prototype (88)
Gingeropolous’s Research Computing Upgrade CCS proposal was fully funded (89)
CryptoGrampy demonstrated how to set up and use the Monero PoS app HotShop, was looking for UI feedback (90,91)
imperator285 offered to write history papers for XMR (92)
Vicurious was looking to hire an artist to create MoneroChad character sketch for 0.5 XMR (92)
Siyoya offered to do database-related work for XMR (93)
pluja launched new moneroj.info knowledge site (94)
Sethforprivacy shared a thorough guide on accepting Monero via BTCPay Server (95)
MajesticBank was looking to give away 40 tickets to the sold out MoneroKon 2022 event for free (96)
CryptoMorpheus_ built 10 new charts for Moneroj.net (97)
bawdyanarchist posted a Monerun After Action Report (98)
mj-xmr and endorxmr announced the first SolOptXMR v0.1-beta release (99)
Monero Talk interviewed Nam Sardar on true cash in the digital age (100)
midipoet posted an Oslo Freedom Forum 2022 report (101)
shermand100 announced the new PiNodeXMR v5 release with P2Pool support (102)
yusufgurdogan added Monero-Nano swaps to Kuyumcu (103)
DangerousFreedom1984 submitted their first CCS progress report (104)

My personal contributions:

published 4 weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 18/19/20/21, 2022) (105,106,107,108)
published 5 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 17/18/19/20/21) (109,110,111,112,113)
published April 2022 MO Blitz Report: #9 (114)
published 93 Monero Observer Reports & listed 51 Community Messages and 13 Calendar events (115,116) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (117))
published 5 weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 17/18/19/20/21, 2022) (118,119,120,121,122)
started creating new on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summary Reports (123)
created Monero Observer hidden service (124), deployed MO self-hosted CLI Git server (125), updated Resources, Calendar, Messages, Reports, Stats (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (126)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks that keep sending me encrypted emails and messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
all anon MO loyal readers and CCS contributors

That’s it for the 10th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #9 - April 2022

Sun, 01 May 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this April in the Monero community:

Douglas Tuman offered $1K in XMR for Gratuitas.org website redesign (1)
Monero Talk interviewed entrepreneur Richard Cooper (2)
ACK-J posted a March 2022 update for their MAGIC-funded research proposal (3)
There were 2 Monero Development Workgroup meetings this month (4,5)
Trezor users were exposed to unicode domain phishing attack (6)
DangerousFreedom1984’s CCS proposal to build Python tools that check for inflation in Monero was fully funded (7)
Haveno’s CCS proposal for front-end development was fully funded (8)
hinto-janaiyo’s CCS proposal to build monero-bash was fully funded (9)
m0n3r0d1c3’s CCS proposal to deploy Monero Dice casino was fully funded (10)
The community held 5 MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meetings (11,12,13,14,15)
There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in April (16,17,18,19)
agustincruz opened and closed a CCS proposal to fund a 3D metal printer project (20)
Cake Labs released Cake Wallet v4.4.0 and Monero.com by Cake Wallet v1.0.5 (21)
Kivojo published 4 The Monero Standard newsletter issues (#7-#10) (22,23,24,25)
midipoet’s attendance to the 2022 Oslo Freedom Forum was fully funded by the community through a CCS proposal (26)
CryptoGrampy’s CCS proposal to code Monero Point of Sale web app HotShop was fully funded (27)
John Foss’s CCS proposal was fully funded and he published 4 new The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#37-#40) (28,29,30,31,32)
savandra submitted a CCS proposal to create Monero animated videos (33)
rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#115-#118) (34,35,36,37)
moneroist submitted a CCS proposal to build Patronero project (38)
gnuteardrops reached an impressive Monero.Graphics milestone after publishing the 100th design titled Monero encrypt ideas (39)
mrperx submitted a CCS proposal to create Dew, a decentralized general escrow desktop application (40)
hinto-janaiyo released monero-bash v1.0.0 and v1.4.1 (41,42)
pluja unveiled a new and improved KYCNOT.me dark themed UI (43)
porky11 was looking for artists and writers to contribute to Monerochan visual novel prototype (44)
eversinc33 created an experimental Monero RPC client library in Nim (45)
monerobull launched the monerosupplies.com sticker shop (46)
Haveno posted a community update after receiving funds from their first CCS proposal milestone (47)
fatalglory created monerod-proxy Golang app (48)
mjxmr’s and Endor’s SolOptXMR CCS proposal was fully funded (49)
monderodl shared a list of videos, audio files and slides from the recent Monerotopia event (50)
The call for Monerokon 2022 presentations and workshops was open unitl May 1st (51)
The community scheduled The Monerun event for April 18th 2022 to coincide with Monero’s 8th birthday (52)
Haveno adopted the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct v2.1 (53)
akimayumi forked Monerujo into Shruum alpha wallet (54)
Monero community reached consensus to hard fork on July 16th 2022 (55)
kopipe proposed a $3,099 bounty for a Monero vanity address generator that uses OpenCL or CUDA, which was paid to sech1 within 24 hours (56)
The community celebrated Monero’s 8th birthday with great news from the XMR bulls that registered the 7th consecutive weekly victory (57)
reemuru’s This Year in Monero - 2022 post was deployed to Getmonero.org blog (58)
selsta posted an April 2022 dev update and submitted a new CCS proposal for 3 more months of Monero dev work until July (59)
XMR wiped all 2022 losses after hitting 110-day high (60)
A Monero Space Meeting scheduled for 23 April 2022 was canceled (61)
sethforprivacy’s Fluorine Fermi v0.18 announcement post was deployed to Getmonero.org blog (62)
Google briefly removed Monero.com by Cake Wallet app from Play Store (63,64)
hegjon paid for electricity with Monero in Cipo software demo video (65)
Douglas Tuman discussed Monerun aftermath with MoneroFox in Monerotopia Ep.61 (66)
moneroguides completed Getting to grips with Monero CCS proposal (67)
binarybaron shared a mainnet demo for the XMR-BTC atomic swap desktop GUI prototype (68)
Haveno published the list of crypto assets that will be available at launch (69)
benevanoff announced the beta release of XMR-Multisweeper CLI tool (70)
Cake Labs announced a new and revamped website interface for their Monero.com XMR-only wallet (71)
Monero Talk interviewed dMartian on Monero and liberty (72)
Mullvad started preparing to finally support XMR payments (73)
selsta’s May-July 2022 Monero dev work CCS proposal was fully funded (74)
UkoeHB submitted a new CCS proposal to continue working on the Seraphis wallet PoC (75)
kayabaNerve discovered a security vulnerability in the monero-python module and j-berman helped emesik release the v1.0.2 patch (76)
Waves.Exchange Legal team replied to Monero Observer inquiries related to their previously reported plans to delist Monero (77)
reemuru opened and closed a CCS proposal to create interactive guides for Monero developers (78)
xmrmfjj2 was tricked into paying an exorbitant 19.73 XMR transaction fee by a malicious Monero remote node (79)
Haveno decided to remove Zcash from list of currencies that will be supported at launch, after receiving heavy criticism (80)
Justxd22 added support for P2Pool and P2Pool Mini to their Moneroo _xd Telegram bot (81)
Luigi Tech shared a video in which he demonstrates how to run a full Monero node via Tor using Docker Compose (82)
Monero GUI v0.17.3.2 Oxygen Orion was released with experimental support for P2Pool mining (83)
The next MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meeting was scheduled for 7 May 2022 (84)

My personal contributions:

published 5 weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 13/14/15/16/17, 2022) (85,86,87,88,89)
published 4 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 13/14/15/16) (90,91,92,93)
published March 2022 MO Blitz Report: #8 (94)
published 104 Monero Observer Reports & listed 52 Community Messages and 12 Calendar events (95,96) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (97))
published 4 weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 13/14/15/16, 2022) (98,99,100,101)
created List of email service providers for anons (102) and updated signed contact information after cTemplar shut down (103), updated Resources, Calendar, Messages, Reports, Stats (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (104)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports on social media
the cypherpunks that keep sending me encrypted emails and messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
all MO loyal readers and CCS contributors

That’s it for the 9th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #8 - March 2022

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this March in the Monero community:

Winston submitted a CCS proposal to build Whatnero Android app (1)
LocalMonero published Sethforprivacy’s Contributing Back to Monero article (2)
hdflix started adding Monero educational videos to Monero.ist (3)
John Foss submitted a CCS proposal to fund the next 18 issues of The Monero Moon newsletter (4)
Kivojo published 5 The Monero Standard newsletter issues (#2-#6) (5,6,7,8,9)
PrimeXBT added XMR/USD and XMR/BTC trading pairs to its platform (10)
John Foss published 5 The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#32-#35) (11,12,13,14,15)
New Monero multisig wallet RINO was looking for stagenet testers (16)
UkoeHB won $1K bounty after Haveno-sponsored multisig PR #7877 was merged into Monero (17)
rottenwheel published 5 Revuo Monero newsletter issues (#110-#114) (18,19,20,21,22)
Haveno core team allocated $500 bounty for Haveno desktop application PoC request (23)
MoneroTalk team invited the community to join Monerotopia live shows in Rincon, Puerto Rico (24)
Waves.Exchange announced plans to delist Monero, ZEC and Dash and advised users to withdraw their coins before May 8th 2022 or risk forfeiture (25)
There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in March (26,27,28,29,30)
The community held 4 MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meetings (31,32,33,34)
Monero Talk interviewed Frank Dashwood (35)
Kevin Wad discussed the future of Monero in an interview with Luke Smith (36)
Monerujo v2.3.3 Baldaŭ was released with support for multiple themes (37)
Monero.Bounties bot was temporarily broken (38)
xmrSale v2 was released with support for random public nodes over tor (39)
CryptoGrampy was looking for contributors to help build PocketNode, a Monero GUI node for Android (40)
hinto-janaiyo released XMRig-Auto-Build v1.2 and monero-toolchain v2.0.0 (41,42)
Justin Berman published the first progress report for his Feb-May 2022 Monero dev work CCS proposal (43)
rd8719 bagged 0.67 XMR after solo mining a block with the built-in Monero GUI wallet miner (44)
UkoeHB’s Seraphis wallet PoC CCS proposal was moved to funding stage and got fully funded the following week (45,46)
Justin Ehrenhofer reported 74.6 XMR and 20.9K USD on MAGIC Monero Fund balance sheet (46)
Haveno submitted a new CCS proposal for front-end development, which was eventually moved to the funding stage (47,48)
selsta posted a CCS progress report for March 2022 (49)
mjxmr’s Q2 2022 CCS proposal was moved to the funding stage and got fully funded in 10 days (50,51)
MyMonero was looking for tech-savvy wallet users to take part in their iOS app beta test (52)
Canadian hosting provider Packet Point started accepting Monero for VPS plans (53)
fluffypony confirmed that he is working on a project involving wrapped XMR, DeFi protocols, borrowing and farming (54)
Adam Corbo and lunar_mining were invited to Monerotopia Episode 56 (55)
Lovera submitted a new CCS progress report for February 2022 (56)
A Monero Space Meeting was scheduled for the 26th (57)
Rucknium shared weekly and monthly visualizations of Monero ring member age distribution since 2014/04 (58)
emesik announced the release of monero-python v1.0 (59)
Monero Talk interviewed US senatorial candidate Bryan B. Solstin (60)
noot completed the 4th milestone for her XMR-ETH atomic swaps CCS proposal (61)
midipoet announced that MoneroKon 2022 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on June 18-19 at Arroz Studios (62)
With The Monero Moon’s future in question, author John Foss requested community feedback (63)
mjxmr published tsqsim benchmark results (64)
Monerotopia teamed up with The Crypto Vigilante to offer virtual conference access (65)
oeAdgK01 submitted a CCS proposal to translate Monero wallets, site, user guides, lecture and Moneropedia to Greek (66)
saccharineboi shared an Arch Linux installation and Monero mining video guide (67)
MAGIC Monero Fund committee allocated $12K USD to fund its first ever research proposal (68)
According to Andreas Antonopoulos clip, Bitcoin’s anonymity set is much bigger than Monero’s (69)
hinto-janaiyo submitted a CCS proposal to build monero-bash wrapper for Linux (70)
DangerousFreedom1984 submitted a CCS proposal to build Python tools that check for inflation in Monero (71)
mj submitted a CCS proposal looking to fund the SolOptXMR (Solar Optimal mining of XMR) project (72)
The community scheduled the next Monero Development Workgroup meeting for April 2nd (73)
SoiledCold5 announced their intention to list a WOW/XMR trading pair on upcoming Garlix crypto exchange (74)
ChangeNOW added XMR to their NOW wallet (75)
Monero Talk interviewed Bitcoin enthusiast Michael Ruiz (76)
The RINO team put out a $10K bounty towards fixing Monero’s multisignature wallet code (77)
anon_ submitted a CCS proposal for Shadowcart project but then decided to cancel it (78)
mjxmr posted his March 2022 Monero dev report (79)
P2Pool v1.9 was released with a critical bug fix (80)
willk submitted an ambiguous CCS proposal to build a Monero ecological platform (81)
v1docq47 posted a February-March 2022 CCS progress report (82)

My personal contributions:

published 4 weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 9/10/11/12, 2022) (83,84,85,86)
published 4 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 9/10/11/12) (87,88,89,90)
published February 2022 MO Blitz Report: #7 (91)
published 101 Monero Observer Reports & listed 43 Community Messages and 10 Calendar events (92,93) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (94))
started publishing new weekly Monero Dev Activity Report (Weeks: 9/10/11/12, 2022) (96,97,98,99)
added new Statistics section (100) and new Mini RSS feed (101), updated Resources, Calendar, Messages, Reports, Stats (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (102)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous tips and shared my reports
the cypherpunks that keep sending me encrypted emails and messages
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
all MO loyal readers and CCS contributors

That’s it for the 8th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: Monero Observer is fully funded by you: anons, cypherpunks, freedom lovers. No sponsors, no conflicts of interest. The MO Spring 2022 CCS proposal was 100% funded. Thank you!

Monero Observer Blitz #7 - February 2022

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:

Exodus Wallet was planning to add support for Monero on the Trezor by the end of June 2022 (1)
Cake Technologies released Monero.com v1.0.2/1.0.3/1.0.4 and Cake Wallet v4.3.6/4.3.7/4.3.8 (2,3,4)
Harsh Strongman added a Monero module to the Learn Crypto Course (5)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meetings this month (6,7,8,9)
pluja cancelled their CCS funding proposal for the Moneroj project (10)
Haveno submitted the second largest CCS proposal ever, looking for $231K (1543 XMR) to build the UI (11)
Sethforprivacy called out Haseeb Qureshi for spreading Monero FUD with his Coindesk Privacy Week piece (12)
MAGIC Monero Fund shared a summary of its first advisory committee meeting (13)
tobtoht moved Feather Wallet from a self-hosted Gitea instance to Github (14)
Alagaris moved MoneroPot away from Njalla (15)
There were 2 Farcaster XMR/BTC Swap Dev Meetings this month (16,17)
Justin Berman published his sixth and final CCS progress report before starting a new CCS proposal to continue working on Monero until May 2022 (18,19)
There was a Monero Meet livestream this month (20)
The community held 4 Monero Research Lab meetings (21,22,23,24)
netrik182 posted their January 2022 CCS community report (25)
rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#106-#109) (26,27,28,29)
Lovera submitted their January 2022 CCS progress report (30)
The Haveno UI CCS funding proposal was withdrawn after community objections (31)
Monero Talk interviewed The Robin Hood Of Wall Street, Gregory Mannarino (32)
The first alpha version of the BTC-XMR UnstoppableSwap GUI was ready for community testing (33)
Techlore CEO Henry interviewed Monero Talk host Douglas Tuman (34)
The COMIT team stopped maintaining the XMR-BTC atomic swap project (35)
There was one Community Workgroup Meeting this month (36)
John Foss published 2 The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#30,#31) (37,38)
Crypt0-Bear released his newest album titled Make Crypto Scary Again for free on the dark web (39)
Kevin Wad published a video investigating how Monero could replace the US Dollar as international currency (40)
Monero Talk interviewed Marc Falzon on the dark side of Bitcoin in El Salvador (41)
The MoneroKon 2022 CCS proposal was fully funded just before its deadline (42,43)
0x1337f331 forked Haveno into PenumbraDEX (44)
P2Pool decentralized Monero mining pool v1.7 & 1.8 were released (45,46)
v1docq47’s CCS proposal to continue creating videos and translating Monero content into Russian for 6 months was fully funded (47)
MineXMR’s hashrate dropped from 50% to 38% after Monero community decentralization efforts (48)
mjxmr submitted a replacement CCS proposal for Q2 2022 (49)
moneroguides resumed work on the Getting to grips with Monero mini series (50)
Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX listed Monero on their platform (51)
Haveno proposed a new structure based on a CCS-like system called Engine (52)
MAGIC Monero Fund started accepting research grant applications (53)
Douglas Tuman and sunchakr discussed the Canadian trucker Freedom Convoy with Zaptosis in Monerotopia Ep.53 (54)
Monerujo’s SideKick project was finally 100% funded (55)
Estonian crypto exchange Stockpoint added a XMR/USDT trading pair to their platform (56)
CryptoGrampy proposed a bounty for the creation of an Android GUI Monero node (57)
herrduarte announced their plans to stop maintaining Monerobenchmarks.info after 5 years (58)
selsta posted a February 2022 dev update (59)
LocalMonero restricted Tor IPs on the clearnet after experiencing DDoS attacks (60)
Monero Talk interviewed Keith Weiner on crypto vs gold (61)
Kevin Wad published a video analyzing Seraphis and Jamtis (62)
Kivojo started publishing a new weekly newsletter, The Monero Standard (63)
jberman’s CCS proposal to continue development work on Monero for the next 3 months was fully funded (64)
Rucknium and plowsof have set up Moneroresearch.info to store Monero-related research papers (65)
UkoeHB completed their Seraphis PoC CCS and submitted a new proposal to build a Seraphis wallet proof-of-concept (66,67)
reemuru released v0.1.0 of the experimental lightweight XMR browser extension himitsu (68)
XMR.radio announced plans to broadcast live talks from the upcoming MoneroKon 2022 event (69)
Haveno announced MajesticBank as their new sponsor (70)
Monero Talk interviewed Vanessa Harris on true digital cash (71)
The community scheduled the first 3 meetings for March 2022: MRL meeting (2nd), Monero Meet (5th), MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meeting (6th) (72,73,74)

My contributions:

published 4 weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 5/6/7/8, 2022) (75,76,77,78)
published 4 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 5/6/7/8) (79,80,81,82)
published January 2022 MO Blitz Report: #6 (83)
published 90 Monero Observer Reports & listed 30 Community Messages and 14 Calendar events (84,85) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (86))
updated Resources, Calendar, Messages, Reports, added new Calendar feed on the RSS page (87) (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (88)

Credits/special thanks to:

everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous tips and shared my reports
gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
all MO loyal readers and contributors

That’s it for the 7th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: Monero Observer is fully funded by you: anons, cypherpunks, freedom lovers. No sponsors, no conflicts of interest. Support my MO Spring 2022 CCS proposal. I am grateful for your contributions.

Monero Observer Blitz #6 - January 2022

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this January in the Monero community:

Astendann shared a short Monero Misconceptions explainer video (1)
mjxmr submitted his December 2021 dev report (2)
Lovera posted a CCS progress report for December 2021 (3)
Monerujo v2.3.1 Doménikos was released with seed encryption support (4)
netrik182 posted a December 2021 CCS community report (5)
The Revuo Monero weekly publication made a comeback with Issue #101 after a 7-month hiatus (6)
garrylachman was looking for XMRig for Android contributors (7)
mjxmr proposed redistributing funds for his Compilation time reduction CCS proposal (8)
UkoeHB invited community input on radical proposal to eliminate Monero’s 10-block-lock (9)
There were 4 MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meetings this month (10,11,12,13)
The community held 4 Monero Research Lab meetings (14,15,16,17)
There was one Monero Space Meeting this month (18)
REMSee shared a BTC-XMR atomic swap tutorial video (19)
Andres posted an article explaining how Monerujo offset passphrases work (20)
Spearmint9 shared a bash script that downloads and verifies the hash of the latest Monero GUI wallet (21)
xmrvsbeast proposed a bounty for the integration of P2Pool mining into Monero GUI wallet (22)
aldrinzigmundv’s price monitoring CLI app zigfi v1.5.0 added Monero support (23)
John Foss published 4 The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#26-#29) (24,25,26,27)
Monero GUI 0.17.3.1 Oxygen Orion was released (28)
CryptoGrampy shared a P2Pool mining demo using XMRig for Android (29)
PacificNWVet paid a 3.93 XMR fee for transferring 0.34 XMR (fund were recovered thanks to Monero community donations) (30)
Cake Technologies released their new Monero-only Monero.com wallet (31)
There were 3 Community Workgroup Meetings this month (32,33,34)
Douglas Tuman discussed Monero price with Chad Thackray on Monero Talk (35)
MoneroMarvin updated agoradesk-py Python interface to work with LocalMonero API v1.6 (36)
P2Pool decentralized Monero mining pool v1.5 & 1.6 were released (37,38)
rottenwheel published 5 Revuo Monero issues (#101-#105) (38,39,40,41,42)
The MoneroKon 2022 CCS proposal was moved to the Funding Required stage (43)
Moneropedia entries are now translatable on Weblate, thanks to erciccione and netrik182 (44)
Cake Wallet version 4.3.5 reintroduced fixed exchange rates (45)
selsta submitted a new CCS proposal to work on Monero development for 3 more months until mid-March 2022 (the proposal was fully funded) (46,47)
MAGIC Monero Fund announced its first advisory committee members (48)
valldrac submitted their first Molly.im CCS update (49)
CypherStack published a Seraphis knowledge article on LocalMonero (50)
selsta posted a January 2022 dev report (51)
v1docq47’s CCS proposal to continue creating videos and translating Monero content into Russian was moved to the Funding Required stage (52, 53)
MoneroMiami joined Douglas Tuman and sunchakr in Monerotopia Ep.48 (54)
MoneroTalk interviewed Techlore CEO Henry (55)
OrangeFren project was looking for community feedback (56)
LocalMonero resurrected their canary with a new PGP-signed message (57)
noot’s XMR-ETH atomic swaps CCS proposal was finally moved to the funding stage after a licensing debate (proposal was fully funded) (58)
Unkn8wn69 released the first version (v0.1.0) of their Moneroocean Telegram Bot (59)
Monerotopia Ep.49 was livestreamed from The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, FL (60)
noot posted a development update for her XMR-ETH atomic swaps project (61)
ByBit listed the XMR/USDT perpetual futures contract on their trading platform (62)
The Monero Development Workgroup met once this month (63)
rimuru proposed a bounty for the creation of an XMR price proxy server over I2P (64)
Wobole completed German translations for Sound Money, Safe Mode and Monero Means Money subtitles (65)
Winston69 developed a Monerochan Discord bot that aims to help newcomers (66)
ryitnoise created the Monerica project that aims to prove how one could live purely off Monero (67)
Betplay crypto casino added support for Monero on their platform (68)
The core team-hosted Monero.social Matrix server migrated hosts on 28 January 2022 at 0100 AM GMT (69)
rbrunner7 was calling for dedicated efforts to establish a clear migration path ahead of Seraphis/Jamtis Monero hardfork (70)
CryptoGrampy claimed the bounty for the Monero Desktop Drag and Drop Widget Dashboard PoC (71)
Getting to grips with Monero CCS proposal completion date was delayed until March 1st 2022 (72)
Coindesk and Localmonero published Sethforprivacy’s Monero and privacy-related articles (73)
Former Elliptic representative Liat Shetret told MoneroTalk that no blockchain analytics company can track Monero (74)
SChernykh created a P2Pool countdown page that predicts the Monero tail emission era will start in June 2022 (75)
Trezor promised to remove AOPP support after community backlash for ditching cypherpunk ideals to accommodate Swiss FINMA AML requirements (76, 77)
spirobel submitted a new CCS proposal to write a Monero Afghanistan expansion strategy paper (78)
The next Farcaster XMR/BTC Swap Dev Meeting was scheduled for 2 February 2022 at 1600 UTC (79)
mjxmr posted a January 2022 Monero dev report and submitted a new CCS proposal to continue working on Monero Core for 3 more months (starting mid-February/March 2022) (80,81)

My contributions:

added new Monero Observer Calendar page (82, 83)
started publishing a new MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 report (Week 4, 2022) (84)
published 5 weekly Monero Observer XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 52/1/2/3/4) (85,86,87,88,89)
published December 2021 MO Blitz Report: #5 (90)
published 99 Monero Observer Reports & 36 Community Messages (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (91)

That’s it for the 6th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

Monero Observer Blitz #5 - December 2021

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:

Monero CLI v0.17.3.0 Oxygen Orion was tagged and later released with P2Pool support (1, 2)
MyMonero enabled direct fiat purchases for Monero (3)
pluja submitted a CCS proposal to build the Moneroj.info project (4)
w4ca released v1.0.0 of MoneroMonitor (5)
Cake Wallet promised to drop everything and prioritize the Monero only app (6)
noot won a bounty for executing the first ever mainnet XMR-ETH atomic swap on Arbitrum (7)
Monero Talk interviewed Cake Wallet founder Vik Sharma (8)
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz submitted a CCS proposal to serve Monero content at TNABC Miami 2022 (9)
netrik182 posted the final progress report for their trial run CCS proposal (10)
tevador put forth a radical suggestion to replace Monero addresses with payment requests in UkoeHB’s Seraphis Address Schemes Github issue (11)
Justin Ehrenhofer announced MAGIC Grants’s new Monero Fund (12)
Monero Matteo interviewed Monero Core’s ArticMine (13)
Vulnerabilities were identified in the implementation of Monero multisignature wallets code (14)
CryptoGrampy was seeking funding for his Monero Desktop Drag and Drop Widget Dashboard project (15)
Discussions for a Monero-Tari atomic swaps implementation were still open (16)
gnuteardrops shared the new Monero.Graphics repository (17)
Monerujo v2.2.1 René BETA release added support for onion nodes (18)
The Monero Community Workgroup held a meeting (19)
There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings this month (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
P2Pool v1.4 was released (25)
Kevin Wad shared his strategy of protecting Monero mnemonic seeds (26)
midipoet submitted a CCS proposal to fund MoneroKon 2022 (27)
Monero Talk interviewed Dash fan Joel Valenzuela (28)
netrik182 submitted a CCS proposal to continue working as translation coordinator for 3 months (29)
noot submitted a CCS proposal to develop XMR-ETH atomic swaps (30)
The Farcaster Project released initial version 0.1.0 of Farcaster Node (31)
Haveno updated its website interface (32)
Secret Code Podcast shared a 4-part tutorial series on the Secret Monero Bridge (33)
RogueMaven shared the spec document for Tails-like Monero Ilaro Linux OS (34)
There were 2 MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meetings this month (35, 36)
OsrsNeedsF2P proposed a bounty for the addition of a XMR-BTC atomic swaps trading pair to the Bisq DEX (37)
garrylachman released XMRig for Android Pre-Alpha 0.0.3 (38)
netrik182’s CCS proposal was fully funded (39)
Cake Wallet sponsored Techlore’s Threat Modeling Tutorial (40)
Monero Talk interviewed Sri Aravinda Krishnan on building a Lightning Network on Monero (41)
Farcaster Node v0.2.0 was ready for its first Testnet stress test (42)
selsta posted a CCS progress report for December 2021 (43)
The community held a Monero Space Meeting (44)
Rodolfo and aFungible joined Doug and Sunita on Monerotopia Episode 44 (45)
Sethforprivacy shared an informative Dispelling Monero FUD blog post (46)
TNABC Miami 2022 Monero presence was looking doubtful with 24 hours left until decision deadline (47)
v1docq47 posted his November 2021 CCS progress report (48)
monero-python 0.99 module was ready for testing (49)
Polarity was looking to add an xUSD-XMR trading pair (50)
Cake Wallet published Inference’s audit of Thorchain’s Monero multisig implementation (51)
Monerujo devs were looking to build a PoC app for iOS from scratch; the proposal was fully funded in under 72 hours (52, 53))
John Foss published Issue #25 of The Monero Moon after a 5 month hiatus (54)
Monero Talk interviewed Harsh Strongman on Bitcoin vs Monero (55)
UkoeHB’s Seraphis post was deployed to Getmonero.org blog (56)
COMIT released version 0.10.2 of their XMR-BTC atomic swap tool (57)
DNSFilter CEO Ken Carnesi was using Monero FUD to promote his own business (58)
garrylachman released the Pre-Alpha 0.0.7 for his Android GUI miner xmrig-for-android (59)
Haveno was teasing the upcoming Monero P2P DEX (60)
Justin Berman published his 5th CCS progress report (61)
Privatemonero.org’s admin shared a guide to setting up a public Monero remote node (62)
rimuru proposed a bounty for Atomic Swaps-as-a-Service (ASaaS) (63)
ArticMine stood up against centralized exchanges (64)
CryptoGrampy shared a demo for the Monero Desktop Drag and Drop Widget Dashboard PoC (65)
Gate.io exchange earned some street cred with their Monero beats Bitcoin video (66)
The next Community Workgroup Meeting was scheduled for 2 January 2021 1600 UTC (67)

My contributions:

added new Monero Observer Resources page (68, 69)
created new Guide to verifying, running and updating the official Monero CLI wallet on Linux (70)
published 4 weekly Monero Observer XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 48/49/50/51) (71)
published November MO Blitz Report (72)
published 88 Monero Observer Reports & 38 Community Messages (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (73)

That’s it for the 5th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful, thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: Special thanks to all of you that supported my work by funding my 2022 Winter CCS proposal and by directly donating to my XMR address, I really appreciate you!

Monero Observer Blitz #4 - November 2021

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this November in the Monero community:

Guns N’ Bitcoin hosted a rather cringe Twitter Spaces meeting (1)
tobtoht submitted a CCS proposal to continue dev work on Feather Wallet for 3 more months (2)
Whonix was seeking volunteers to test Monero wallet isolation in QubesOS (3)
The Monero Community Workgroup held 2 meetings (4,5)
The MoneroMarket project was set to launch its website on November 7th 2021 (6)
There were 4 Monero Policy Working Group meetings (7,8,9,10)
The Monero Research Lab also held 4 different meetings last month (11,12,13,14)
XMR.Radio was forced to scale down operation due to lack of interest (15)
ArticMine and Isthmus have weighed in on the feasibility of Rucknium’s OSPEAD proposal (16)
John Foss announced the return of the Monero Moon newsletter mid December 2021 (17)
Kevin Wad published a video where he probed Darknet markets for Monero usage (18)
Radiant-Grab3640 was looking to spend centineros on game codes and TF2 currency (19)
Monero Talk interviewed Sudeep Bose on the expectation of privacy in Bitcoin vs. Monero (20)
P2Pool released v1.3.1 with various bug fixes (21)
Unkn8wn69 accepted CryptoGrampy’s challenge to create a MoneroShop 101 video tutorial series (22)
DoaJC_Blogger offered a bounty to whoever suggested the best name for a payment gateway app (23)
ISeeYour.cash latest update added Rich Rankings and Twitter support (24)
Kevin Wad discussed shady CEX practices in an interview with Monero Matteo and bawdyanarchist (25)
Lovera submitted a CCS proposal to produce Monero educational content in Spanish (26)
moneroguides shared a P2Pool quick start guide video for Windows users (27)
Sylvain Cloutier interviewed Douglas Tuman on Monero basics (28)
CryptoGrampy invited contributors to new Monero UX community channels (29)
kuivpaju has been keeping the flag flying for Monero in Tacoma, Washington (30)
A Monero Meet livestream took place on the 13th (31)
netrik182 posted his first CCS progress report (32)
SlotePimousse shared his soccer betting project Petit.bet with the Monero community (33)
mjxmr’s and tobtoht’s CCS proposals were funded by the Monero community (34)
moneroguides started work on Getting to grips with Monero mini video series (35)
Spirobel uploaded a Monero webstore tutorial video (36)
XMRig was introduced as a NixOS package thanks to ratsclub’s PR (37)
Daily Monero transactions reached a new ATH with 40,768 confirmed (38)
gingeropolous proposed a bounty for adding I2P support to the Monero GUI wallet (39)
Rucknium’s OSPEAD CCS proposal was fully funded: 115 contributors donated 171 XMR (40, 41)
ChangeNow’s Editor-in-chief Yennie Geller predicted $1,500 Monero by 2025 (42)
Douglas Tuman tried to clear the air around Monerotopia 2022 Miami event (43)
Kevin Wad published a video in which he analyzes Monero’s supply (44)
UkoeHB invited the Monero community to discuss potential Seraphis address schemes (45)
Haveno raised a bounty to $1,500 in an effort to attract a Java/Typescript developer (46)
P2Pool added support for Docker Compose (47)
Monero Matteo uploaded a video exploring the prospect of government crackdown on Monero (48)
j-berman submitted a PR to decrease wallet sync times for new XMR transactions (49)
Monero Talk interviewed German Monero podcaster AlexAnarcho (50)
selsta’s November progress report hints at upcoming Monero v0.17.3.0 release (51)
noot was looking for XMR-ETH atomic swap prototype feedback (52)
MoneroMarvin released a Python library for the LocalMonero API (53)
Fluorine Fermi won the condorcet 0.18 naming poll (54,55)
Alagaris was looking to improve MoneroPot raffle system (56)
Bistroo added XMR support to their food ordering app (57)
freshlysquosed asked Monero community to roast his IAcceptMonero project (58)
The Monero community was calling for a Binance boycott as CZ boasted about his monopoly (59)
The MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meeting was scheduled for 4 December 2021 (60)
There was a Monero Space Meeting on the 20th (61)
Slate magazine was spreading FUD about Monero (62)
john_r365 published A Layman’s Guide to mj-xmr’s work on Monero (63)
Kraken dropped Monero support for UK customers on the 26th (64)
moneroguides submitted a CCS proposal for Getting to grips with Monero mini video series (65)
Monero hard-fork v15 was planned for early Spring 2022 (66)
Monero Talk interviewed Darknet Diaries creator Jack Rhysider (67)
Rucknium published a Monero Open Research Questions list (68)
The Monero community was very interested in Elizabeth’s XMR-ETH atomic swap prototype (69)
noot, Articmine, aFungible, Crypt0-bear and Elias joined 40th Monerotopia episode (70)
Zcash showed its true colors with the planned switch from PoW to PoS (71)
LinuxHeki released XMRiGUI v1.5 (72)
CryptoGrampy proposed a bounty for an XMR-only BTCPayServer setup video tutorial (73)
Kevin Wad posted a video review of Haveno and the Haven protocol (74)
The Monero Development Workgroup held a meeting on the 28th (75)
Sethforprivacy shared his self-hosted privacy services repository (76)
ichbinnichtschwul64 opened his PrivateMonero.org remote onion node to the public (77)
Rucknium proposed a bounty for the creation of a XMR-BCH atomic swaps implementation (78)
The community restarted discussions to implement I2P torrenting capabilities into Monero core (79)
Creme-Exciting wanted to clone Monero Core codebase into Kotlin native (80)
The community was considering a libwallet enhancenement to reduce wallet sync time (81)
Lovera’s CCS proposal made it to the funding stage (82)
Particl announced BasicSwap DEX will be fully compatible with Monero from the get-go (83)
Pete Scriviner denied FCA’s involvement in Kraken’s decision to delist Monero in UK (84)
Monero Talk interviewed self-proclaimed Monero extremist Mano Crypto (85)
Builderra platform was considering going all-in on Monero (86)
rbrunner7 published another fictional Monero short story titled Nightmare (87)
DutchKevv’s NodeJS Monero miner EazyMiner was ready for community feedback (88)
mjxmr submitted his November 2021 Monero dev report (89)
Cake Wallet won a $250K grant to add Zcash support, disappointing the Monero community (90)
Coincards stepped up as first official sponsor of XMR4ALL Monerotopia conference (91)
Monero celebrated 2 years of RandomX on the last day of the month (92)

My contributions:

added new Monero Observer Archive page (93)
added new Community Messages section (94)
published 5 weekly Monero Observer XMR TA reports (Weeks: 43/44/45/46/47) (95)
published 107 Monero Observer reports & 47 community messages (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (96))

That’s it for the 4th edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful to you and thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: As always, send your <3 feedback @ /about. Thanks for supporting my 2022 CCS!

Monero Observer Blitz #3 - October 2021

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this October in the Monero community:

UkoeHB’s Seraphis PoC CCS proposal was fully funded (1)
binarybaron’s CCS proposal to build a XMR-BTC atomic swap desktop GUI prototype was fully funded (2)
plowsof has completed the first ever bounty on alternative CCS platform Monero Bounties (3)
The Monero community has reached soft consensus to deprecate timelocks (4)
Upcoming MoneroMarket project was openly criticized by the community (5)
The Monero Development Workgroup held a meeting on 17 October 2021 (6)
XMR-only White House Market admin has announced their voluntary retirement on Dread (7)
selsta was appointed Vulnerability Response Team reviewer by Monero Core and HackerOne (8)
moneromooo has shared his latest CCS progress report (9)
Monero Talk interviewed Chris Blec from Defi Watch (10)
Willing_Astronaut430 has tracked a BCH transaction in under 12 hours and collected an XMR bounty (11)
Distinct_War_353 was looking to trade XMR for US Amazon gift cards (12)
Guarda Wallet published a Monero video AMA with Seth (13)
Litesh Gumber has submitted a CCS proposal to create a video for the Monero Anthem song (14)
netrik182 got his CCS proposal funded to substitute ErCiccione as the new Monero Localization Workgroup coordinator (15)
QuickBASIC’s P2Pool post was deployed to Getmonero.org blog (16)
Justin Ehrenhofer has proposed a bounty for redesigning the Monero Means Money website (17)
Monero Core team has returned user funds that were accidentally sent to Monero’s General Fund address (18)
Monero Matteo discussed the importance of Monero in an interview with Kevin Wad (19)
selsta will work 3 more months on Monero development after his CCS proposal was fully funded (20)
COMIT has released version 0.9.0 of their XMR-BTC atomic swap tool (21)
mjxmr has submitted his September 2021 Monero dev report (22)
Douglas Tuman and sunchakr discussed XMR price action with crypto analyst _Bullandbear in Monerotopia session (23)
tabletoe was looking to pay XMR for network security tips (24)
ErCiccione’s CCS proposal for 3 more months of work on Getmonero.org website was fully funded (25)
There were 3 Monero Research Lab meetings this month (26,27,28)
Haveno was looking for an experienced developer to lead the UI team (29)
Bitrequest dev was seeking community assistance to review the code base of his XMR-supporting app (30)
The XMR Community Art Fund held a livestream to demonstrate Twitch livestream Monero donations notifications (31)
Justin Ehrenhofer has joined Cake Wallet as VP of Operations (32)
Cake Wallet was looking to hire an experienced Flutter developer (33)
The Monero Outreach Workgroup has put up bounty for a Monero Patents Portuguese (Brazilian) translation reviewer (34)
There was a Monero Space Meeting on 16 October 2021 (35)
v1docq47 has posted 2 CCS progress reports for August-October 2021 (36, 37)
xmrSale dev has shared a Monero WooCommerce plugin demo store (38)
Isabella has proposed a bounty for Odysee to support XMR tipping on their website (39)
yorha-0x has won a bounty for developing a file server app that accepts XMR payments for downloads (40)
j-berman has proposed a wallet-side binning proof-of-concept for the decoy selection algorithm (41)
Kevin Wad has interviewed Monero artist and contributor Crypt0-bear (42)
MoneroMerch was looking for graphic designers for their store items (43)
Douglas Tuman has interviewed public speaker Timothy Picciott from The Liberty Advisor (44)
Justin Berman has published his third CCS progress report (45)
MarilynMonero21 has invited the community to a pumpkin Monero carving contest (46)
COMIT has published the 0.10.0-alpha pre-release of their XMR-BTC atomic swap implementation (47)
Justin Ehrenhofer and Vik Sharma joined Douglas Tuman and sunchakr in Monerotopia Ep.35 (48)
Easymonero crypto exchange was looking for Monero community feedback (49)
Haveno posted a $400 bounty for a Tor v3 implementation across the platform (50)
Molly.im CCS proposal was fully funded (51)
P2Pool v1.2 was released (52)
There were 2 Monero Policy Working Group meetings this month (53, 54)
pluja raised Monero awareness with his new ISeeYour.cash project (55)
binarybaron asked the Monero community to name his XMR-BTC atomic swap app (56)
Difficult-Outside350 has shared a BTC-XMR atomic swap guide (57)
Douglas Tuman has interviewed Ethan Lou on Monero Talk (58)
mjxmr has submitted a CCS proposal to work on Monero Core in Q4 2021 (59)
hashes4merkle has submitted an english transcription for Monero Konferenco 2019’s Dual Outputs: Enabling Payment-Channel Networks in Monero video (60)
Kevin Wad urged the Monero community to withdraw XMR from CEXs (61)
Controversial website Privacytools.io has added a Monero section (62)
86barone was looking to sell his 2002 Suzuki SV650 sport bike for XMR (63)
Howard Chu and XMRscott joined Justin Ehrenhofer in Monero Meet livestream session (64)
XMRig miner malware was discovered in hijacked versions of popular ua-parser-js npm library (65)
CryptoGrampy proposed an Android XMRig GUI miner app bounty (66)
Monerujo dev Andres joined Douglas Tuman in Monerotopia Ep.36 (67)
sikieg has shared some Monero-themed Twitter headers with the community (68)
Elijah Lopez has published an essay entitled Why Monero is the best cryptocurrency (69)
The Monero Policy Working Group scheduled their next meeting for 2 November 2021 (70)
Monero Talk interviewed Seraphis dev Koe (71)
The Monero community has been looking for a suitable name for the upcoming v0.18 Fluorine release (72)
8-buffalo posted a short guide to automate XMRig boot using tmux (73)
coinstudent2048 shared a series of elliptic curve cryptography tutorials for beginners (74)
Gabriel has been offering a privacy focused psychological counseling service for Monero (75)
LinuxHeki has released XMRiGUI version 1.3 (76)
Monerujo v2.1.2 Vertant release fixed the sideshifting bug (77)
P2Pool v1.3 was released with latest monerod and faster block verification (78)
Kevin Wad explained Monero’s role in keynesian economics models video (79)
P2Pool hashrate has tripled to 150Mh/s within 24 hours after v1.3 release (80)
xmrvsbeast proposed a 10 XMR bounty for a video tutorial explaining P2Pool setup on Windows (81)
Feather Wallet has released v1.0.0 and is out of Beta after 1.5 years of development (82)
Haveno has allocated $4.2K in XMR bounties to API development (83)
Monero Matteo and Kevin Wad were invited to join Monerotopia Episode 37 (84)
Proposal to significantly decrease wallet sync times was fueled by community bounty (85)
The MRL has scheduled their next meeting for 3 November 2021 (86)
Monerotopia Miami 2022 event date was set to April 7th (87)
Erciccione has echoed community complaints over Monero Matrix-IRC bridge stability (88)
Monerujo’s m2049r has announced the Nifty Gunthers NFT rewards for contributors (89)
xmrvsbeast has announced a HR boost system for low hash P2Pool miners (90)

My contributions:

published the weekly Monero Observer XMR TA reports (Weeks: 39/40/41/42) (91)
created Ultimate guide for new Monero contributors (92)
redesigned Monero Means Money website and donated the bounty to GF/other bounties (93)
published 115 Monero Observer reports; list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (94)

That’s it for the 3rd edition of Monero Observer Blitz.

Previous editions can be found on the /tag/blitz page.

Let me know if this was helpful to you and thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

PS: As always, send your <3 feedback @ /about

Monero Observer Blitz #2 - September 2021

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 UTC

Here’s a recap of what happened this September in the Monero community:

COMIT released v0.8.2 & v0.8.3 of their XMR-BTC atomic swap tool (1,2)
Haveno devs have finalized the trade protocol and launched a Bounty Program (3)
Monero devs released Oxygen Orion Point Release 2.3 which addressed the decoy selection bug (4)
pluja deployed a new version of KYCNOT.ME with an improved interface and intelligent features (5)
Douglas Tuman discussed Monero with Nomad Capitalist’s founder Andrew Henderson on Monero Talk (6)
OpenBazaar devs were looking to potentially integrate Monero in upcoming v3.0 (7)
AnonCoj XMR classified ads marketplace opened up (8)
jonjonbonbonbonbon shared a short Monero poem with the crypto community (9)
Monero contributor mjxmr submitted his August 2021 dev report (10)
xmrSale CCS proposal to develop a payment processor has been fully funded (11)
Kevin Wad started a new video channel dedicated to Monero (12)
Monerujo Vertant (v2.1.0 & v2.1.1) update was released (13,14)
Seth published a p2pool decentralized Monero mining guide (15)
XMR.Radio started broadcasting Monero’s block height every hour (16)
Coincards reported XMR was #3 most used crypto on their platform in August 2021 (17)
Monerujo deployed their own transparent Funding Site (18)
XMR-Bets Monero lottery was looking for community feedback (19)
MargotilianArt was selling custom graphite portraits for XMR (20)
Monerado XMR mining pool stats app v1.0.0 was released (21)
Monero Talk interviewed p2pool dev Sergei Chernykh aka sech1 (22)
Douglas Tuman’s CCS proposal was fully funded (23)
The Monero Community Workgroup held a meeting on 18 September 2021 (24)
rottenwheel won XMR.Radio’s CTF hunt (25)
garrylachman released the alpha of XMRig Made Easy (26)
An internal audit uncovered a critical encryption vulnerability in multiple Matrix clients (27)
There were 3 Monero Research Lab meetings this month (28,29,30)
Odysee proposed BTC tipping but users demanded Monero instead (31)
Anonymous onion site started selling Posteo email vouchers for XMR (32)
Cake Wallet released v4.2.7 (33)
Monero reached the frontpage of Hacker News with Benjamin Kaiser’s Why Monero blog post (34)
Bitfinex listed XMR-PERP Monero futures contract (35)
Monero community Triptych vs Seraphis/Lelantus Spark discussions heated up (36)
Justin Berman published 2 CCS progress reports (37,38)
Monero Talk interviewed humans rights advocate Chris Sky (39)
LocalMonero’s co-founder Alex was interviewed by Seth on his Opt Out Podcast (40)
Hammermann09 proposed a Getmonero.org website redesign concept (41)
p2pool decentralized Monero mining pool v1.0 was released on mainnet (42)
Crypt0-bear released Monero Party music video and published an updated Awesome Monero resource list (43,44)
fluffypony was released from US custody (45)
Feather Wallet devs released Beta-9 (46)
Molly.im lead dev submitted a CCS proposal to integrate XMR payments (47)
w1ck3dAF has challenged the Monero community to a small stakes poker game on XMR.poker (48)
Eercury was looking to sell his silver and copper coins for XMR (49)
Bl5ckj5ck submitted a CCS proposal to translate Mastering Monero to Italian (50)
Justin Ehrenhofer hosted a Monero Meet livestream on the Monero Space video channel (51)
Monero Talk discussed crypto regulations and Monero in an interview with Wesley Thysse (52)
knifetobutter was looking to pay an artist in XMR to create a K-POP song (53)
Monero Observer CCS proposal was fully funded (54)
Monero researchers published a forensic statistical analysis report of the recent Monero transaction volume anomaly (55)
Sparrow Messenger PoC was met with skepticism by the Monero community (56)
Club Monero has added brand new Monero apparel to their shop (57)
JEhrenhofer shared a XMR acceptance request template for contacting BTC merchants (58)
New Monero Bounties project was launched in order to complement the existing CCS funding system (59)
Nick Bax demonstrated how XMR transactions related to WannaCry 2.0 were traced (60)
Rucknium submitted a sensitive CCS proposal aiming to fortify Monero against statistical attacks (61)
aliraheem created a Monero acrylic painting (62)
janostrowka was looking to sell a Mellow Board Surfer for XMR (63)
Crypto ATM producer Lamassu confirmed upcoming XMR support with Forsaken Fiat v7.6 update (64)
The Monero Community Workgroup video channel was bridged to Odysee (65)
Douglas Tuman interviewed cryptographers Aram Jivanyan and Sarang Noether about Lelantus Spark paper (66)

My contributions:

started publishing weekly Monero Observer XMR TA reports: Week 36/37/38 (67)
created a few guides on GPG encryption and RSS feeds (68,69,70)
added a Changelog page where you can find other changes (71)

That’s it for the 2nd Monero Observer Blitz.

In this edition I have included reference links/sources for each item, after getting some feedback.

Let me know if this was helpful to you and thanks for reading!

-escapethe3RA

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Monero Observer Blitz #1 - August 2021

Tue, 31 Aug 2021 UTC

This month, the Monero community has been real busy. Here’s what happened (in 5 minutes):

Coreboot maintainer Piotr Krol shared a guide describing how do cold storage XMR transactions inside Qubes OS
picodenero tried promoting Monero by selling regular and vinyl XMR stickers, shipping all over the US
Diego rehrar Salazar has stepped down from the Monero core team after controversy
Citadel Dispatch interviewed Seth discussing mobile phone privacy, operating systems and corporate surveillance
The Monero Policy Working Group held Jitsi Meet meetings on the 19th and 26th
There was an irc/Matrix Community Workgroup meeting on the 21st
Defcon Village Workgroup meeting took place on the 21st on irc/Matrix
The Monero Policy Working Group submitted feedback to the EU Commission on PPPs
Monero Talk’s Doug Tuman interviewed Monero core team’s Francisco Cabanas aka ArcticMine
The Monerujo team opened up a CCS proposal looking to develop an Android app called Monerujo SideKick
Douglas Tuman interviewed Guillermo Christensen discussing the state of cryptocurrency ransomware
ErCiccione proposed the removal of the Merchants page from the official Getmonero.org website
Cake Wallet released v4.2.5 which features batch sending
XMR <-> BTC atomic swaps went live on mainnet
Asleep-Ad5504 tried to inspire other miners with his Crypto Cave project setup
Justin JEhrenhofer Enhrenhofer was interviewed by Stefania Barbaglio on the Financial Fox Youtube channel
The community met Secret Network’s Monero bridge launch with a high dose of skepticism
$7.5K was donated to the Monero General Fund by the community and Unstoppable Domains
New XMRzone pool mined its first ever block within 48 hours of going live
Amazon Web Services (AWS) took down Monero Ocean mining pool’s server
Binance started doing mandatory KYC on ALL accounts
Crypt0-Bear started working on a PoC cross-chain atomic swap protocol between Monero and Ethereum
p2pool decentralized Monero mining pool entered the testing phase
rbrunner released a new Monero fiction short story called Proof of Distance
deanero shared primary user flows for the Haveno exchange design
Monero set 100K usage record last month which brings it in the top 3 most used cryptocurrencies on Travala
Seth interviewed Juraj Bednar on Opt Out Podcast Episode 7 discussing parallel economies
Community reported that Coindesk removed Monero’s live price feed page from their website
humanadventure offered to teach online music lessons in exchange for XMR
Monero Observer CCS proposal was submitted for community review
MONT3M reported losing 0.03 BTC while attempting a BTC-XMR atomic swap using the COMIT tool
Alex from LocalMonero proposed to deprecate Monero integrated addresses
dsmlegend reported his rough BTC-XMR atomic swap experience but luckily no funds were lost
jberman got his CCS proposal accepted
Douglas Tuman interviewed Dr. Rolf van Wegberg discussing XMR and the darkmarkets
chiefgyk3d shared his impressive swag with a RockPro64 Monero node running PiNodeXMR
Professional magician Jack Velour offered his services in exchange for Monero
A Monero Space meeting took place on irc/Matrix on the 28th
Crypt0-bear released the latest music video from The Orange Album titled Solo Mining Monero
Oxygen Orion Point Release 2.3 has been tagged and the release is on its way
Club Monero added new unique Monero-focused designs on shirts and stickers to their shop
CypherStack’s relationship to Monero core, the General Fund and the CCS system was criticized by the community
Douglas Tuman from Monero Talk submitted his first ever CCS proposal looking for review and funding
Getmonero.org onion site went offline for unknown reasons
Bonus Blitz TA:

Price/pattern: XMR/USD opened at ~$240 (Kraken) on August 1st and rose all the way up to ~$339 to form a top; closed around $285 (+18.8%) on the last day of the month; overall we printed a bullish engulfing candle in August, but the bears managed to form a rather large wick to the upside by rejecting the top;

Bearish scenario: if it breaks down in September, we can expect to see a reaction at the $225-$250 levels; further down $175-180 is a good zone to look for stronger support;

Bullish scenario: if we break $340, then the $518 ATH will be the next big target.

That’s it for the 1st Monero Observer Blitz.

You can find reference links for everything mentioned above on the site.

Obviously, a lot of stuff is missing as it is virtually impossible to include every single thing that happened this past month. Furthermore, please remember that the Monero Observer was only born recently, it’s still a baby.

I just hope this was helpful to you. Thanks for reading and make sure you are extra vigilent on that boating trip next month!

-escapethe3RA

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