1 Jan 2023 [blitz]

Monero Observer Blitz #17 - December 2022

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

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)

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)

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)

[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)

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)

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