Monero Observer Blitz #23 - October 2023
Here’s a recap of what happened this October in the Monero community:
Breaking
- Monero v0.18.3.1 ‘Fluorine Fermi’ was released with important bug fixes (1)
- tevador released new RandomX versions (1.2.0/1.2.1) after ~2 years of development (2)
- Rucknium urged Monero users of Exodus Desktop wallet to update for ‘privacy fix’ (3)
R&D
- There were 4 Monero Research Lab meetings in October (4,5,6,7)
- The Seraphis Wallet Workgroup held 5 meetings (8,9,10,11,12)
- rbrunner7 published the first annual progress report on Seraphis wallet development (13)
- SChernykh released P2Pool v3.7 & v3.8 with several bug fixes, including curl’s CVE-2023-38545 (14,15)
- selsta posted a Monero dev report for September 2023 (16)
- hinto-janai released Gupax v1.3.2 (17)
- ANONERO released ANON versions 0.7.1/0.8/0.8.1 with Polyseed support, fixes and improvements (18,19,20)
- Cake Labs released Cake Wallet/Monero.com v4.9.2/v1.6.2-v4.10.2/v1.7.2 with support for BCH, Nano wallets, fixes and improvements (21,22,23,24)
- 4rkal released MoneroOS v0.3.7 (25)
- LocalMonero/AgoraDesk mobile apps versions 1.1.13/1.1.14 were released with several bug fixes (26,27)
- Unkn8wn69 created a Telegram bot for Trocador AnonPay (28)
- Haveno versions 0.0.12/0.0.13 were released with various fixes and improvements (29)
- Stack Wallet v1.8.1 was released with support for CashFusion (30)
Funding
- ajs-xmr submitted a CCS proposal to incorporate a Czech LLC for MoneroKon (31)
- plowsof completed their second three-month term as CCS coordinator and submitted a new proposal (32,33)
- jeffro256 submitted a CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work (Q4 2023) (34)
- v1docq47 submitted a new CCS proposal for Russian voice-over and transcription work (35)
- VostoEmisio submitted a CCS proposal to create animated videos explaining Monero core concepts (36)
- plowsof proposed a bounty for adding merge mining to P2Pool, which was assigned to sech1 (37)
- Boog900 completed the first milestone for their Cuprate CCS proposal (38)
- valldrac posted the first progress report for their Monero Wallet SDK CCS proposal (39)
- woodser won a bounty for adding TypeScript support to the monero-javascript library (40)
- 4rkal cancelled their CCS proposal to host and maintain a Monero source code archive (41)
- binarybaron opened and then ‘temporarily’ closed their third UnstoppableSwap GUI CCS proposal (42, 43)
- Lovera’s fourth CCS proposal to produce Monero educational content in Spanish was fully funded (44)
- OrangeFren submitted a CCS proposal to rent r/CryptoCurrency ad space for MoneroKon24, which expired and was closed (45)
Culture
- Two Community Workgroup Meetings & 2 MoneroKon 2024 Planning Meetings took place on the 14th & 28th (46,47,48,49)
- A Monero Policy Working Group Meeting scheduled for October 3rd was cancelled (50)
- A user claimed that the recent ~108 XMR Monero General Fund donation was a ‘wrong copy/paste’ (51)
- Monero Talk interviewed Ben Biedermann, Zelinar XY, Econ Bro, and Sethforprivacy (52,53,54,55)
- John Foss published 3 new The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#62-64) after an ~8 month hiatus (56,57,58)
- ANONERO migrated from Telegram to a self-hosted SimpleX Chat onion server (59)
- RINO decided to make its enterprise XMR wallet ‘free to use’ (60)
- rottenwheel published Revuo Monero issues #188-190 (61,62,63)
- LocalMonero published The Monero Standard issues #74-77 (64,65,66,67)
- The Monero Magazine podcast returned after a ~3 month break (68)
- MoneroTime shared a MoneroSigner assembly video (69)
- Binance temporarily suspended XMR withdrawals for the first time in over 5 months (70)
Community Messages (10/55)
- [AFH] [38 XMR] Full professional branding package (by Sato) (71)
- [ANN] New updates on Trocador.app (by Trocador_App) (72)
- [ANN] First episode of a new spanish-spoken Café Monero is out! (by anhdres) (73)
- [ANN] Devzat @ monerobros.club - Chat in SSH with zero dependencies! (by notmtth) (74)
- [ANN] Community-supported film premiering at San Diego Film Festival this Saturday, Oct 21! (by geonic_) (75)
- [ANN] Monero Chicago Meet Up with guest speaker Justin Berman (by vikrants) (76)
- [ANN] Reddit is trash join TOWN instead (by monerobull) (77)
- [LTH] link me up with a i2pd (c++) developer for a small fee (by DiscountMoney89) (78)
- [WTB] Minecraft server hosting that accepts Monero (by Altair12311) (79)
- [WTS] [US] 90% silver quarters $10 FV (by bawdyzebra) (80)
My personal contributions
+92 Reports/Stories
+55 Community messages
+5 Dev reports
+4 Art reports
+13/+2 Meeting logs/summaries
+18 Calendar events
+10/-2 Resources
+1 Blacklist entry
- Daily
- As needed/On demand
- updated reports, listed 55 Community Messages and 18 Calendar events (85,86), added 10 new Resources (& removed 2) (87) & added 1 Blacklist entry (LocalMoneNo.co) (88)
- published 2 Meeting summaries: MRL 2023-10-04 & Seraphis 2023-10-09 (89,90) and uploaded 13 meeting logs (MRL 2023-10-04, MRL 2023-10-11, MRL 2023-10-18, MRL 2023-10-25, Community 2023-10-14, Community 2023-10-28, MoneroKon24 2023-10-14, Monerokon24 2023-10-28, Seraphis 2023-05-15, Seraphis 2023-10-02, Seraphis 2023-10-09, Seraphis 2023-10-16, Seraphis 2023-10-23, Seraphis 2023-10-30) (91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103)
- added new stat to menu bar (Monero latest version), updated PGP key (expiration date), minor layout fixes
- Weekly
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
- the monerano that reminded me to update the PGP key
- 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 23rd 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: feels awesome and ‘just right’ to be back, thanks for the warm welcome everyone!