Monero Observer Blitz #27 - February 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:
Breaking
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
- 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
- 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