1 Oct 2024 [blitz]

Monero Observer Blitz #34 - September 2024

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

Gingeropolous announced plans to shut down the controversial ‘node.moneroworld.com’ service (1)

There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in September (2,3,4,5)
The Monero Tech workgroup held five meetings (6,7,8,9,10)
Four Cuprate meetings also took place this month (11,12,13,14)
woodser released Haveno v1.0.11 with various fixes and improvements (15)
Boog900 posted the first progress report for their latest Cuprate CCS (16)
rehrar released Stack Wallet v2.1.5 (17)
selsta posted a Monero dev report for August 2024 (18)
Cyrix126 released Gupaxx versions 1.4.1 & 1.4.2 (19,20)
Im-Beast released Monero TUI v1.0.0-alpha (21)
jeffro256 completeted their 2024 Q3 Monero dev work CCS (22)
woodser released ‘monero-cpp’ v0.8.12, ‘monero-java’ v0.8.33 and ‘monero-ts’ v0.11.0 (23)
KewbitXMR released Haveno Plus v0.0.1 (24)
MMGen Wallet v15.0.0 was released with ‘full’ macOS support (25)
Monerujo announced the first official release of its Sidekick companion app (26)
binarybaron released UnstoppableSwap GUI v0.6.4 (27)
DiosDelRayo completed their XmrSigner CCS (28)
0xFFFC posted a Monero dev report for September 2024 (29)
SChernykh released P2Pool v4.1.1 (30)

rottenwheel submitted a CCS proposal to maintain Revuo Monero in Q4 2024, which was fully funded (31)
spirobel submitted a CCS proposal to build a ‘robust and modular’ wallet-rpc library (32)
HardenedSteel submitted CCS proposal for 2 months of part-time Getmonero.org work (33)
plowsof submitted a proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator until the end of November 2024, which was moved to the funding stage (34)
jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of dev work on Monero’s ‘Carrot’ addressing protocol, which was moved to the funding stage (35)
Feather Wallet launched a bug bounty program (36)
Anons proposed bounties for a XMR-BCH atomic swaps wallet plugin, Mysu maintenance, Getmonero.org redesign, Monerujo translation issues, and a CLI wallet tool for split transactions (37,38,39,40,41)

[ANN] TownForge’s new testnet has just started for those interested (by plowsof) (55)
[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund recently got two grant/fundraising applications (by Rucknium) (56)
[ANN] [Video] How to install Haveno (by MoneroMavrick) (57)
[ANN] Exit the Road to Serfdom with Monero (by Douglas_McSqueaky) (58)
[ANN] Complete RandomX implementation in JavaScript (by slimeyl1mey) (59)

+61/+25 Reports/Community Messages
+5/+4 Dev/Art reports
+17/+1 Meeting logs/summaries
+17 Calendar events
+4/+2 Resources/Blacklist

Daily
- published 61 Monero Observer Reports (60) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (61))
- updated Changelog (62) and XMR Stats (63)
As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 25 Community Messages and 17 Calendar events (64,65), added 4 new Resources and 2 new Blacklist items (66,67)
- published a meeting summary (68) and uploaded 17 meeting logs: MRL 240904, MRL 240911, MRL 240918, MRL 240925, Community 240914, Community 240928, Cuprate 240903, Cuprate 240910, Cuprate 240917, Cuprate 240924, Website 240908, Website 240922, Tech 240902, Tech 240909, Tech 240916, Tech 240923, Tech 240930 (69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85)
Weekly
- published 5 Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 35-39, 2024) (86,87,88,89,90)
- published 4 MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 36-39, 2024) (91,92,93,94)
Monthly
- published MO Blitz Report: #33 (August 2024) (95)

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 and supporters
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 34th 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