Monero Observer Blitz #24 - November 2023
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
- 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
- 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