Monero Observer Blitz #32 - July 2024
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
- 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
- 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!