Monero Observer Blitz #14 - September 2022
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
- 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
- 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