Monero Observer Blitz #36 - November 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this November in the Monero community:
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Links:
rottenwheel.com ⌘ Read more
Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 13 2024: 6 PRs, 7 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.
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monero-project/monero:
MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 7 December 2024 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, December 7th 2024 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.
The meeting’s discussion topics should be available on agenda.monerokon.org 3.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer4.
It is worth mentioning that the deadline for submitting #38CCC MoneroKon As … ⌘ Read more
Cake Labs releases Cake Wallet v4.21.2 and Monero.com v1.18.2
Cake Labs1 has released Cake Wallet v4.21.2 / Monero.com v1.18.22 with onboarding flow improvements, coin control bug fixes and enhancements, and various other changes.
Better onboarding flow (PIN screen before wallet creation/restoration)
Migrating our Monero nodes to SSL
Better privacy and security for users who leverage our node
Send all when selecting using coin control (for Monero) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/cake-wallet-4.21.2-monero.com-1.18.2-released/)ofrnxmr completes second milestone for BasicSwapDEX CCS proposal
ofrnxmr1 has completed2 the second milestone (M2-O/M2-F/M2-B) for their CCS proposal3 to empower and steward BasicSwapDex4 to production quality software:
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Core v0.14.1 > v0.14.2:
- Removed sqlalchemy
- Reformat codebase using Black
- Completed the BCH integration
- monero-wallet-rpc optimizations
- Prep code for new GUI bid/offer flow
GUI 3.1.0 > 3.1.1:
- Re … ⌘ Read more”`
Haveno Reto completes ‘RetoSwap’ rebrand with new website launch
RetoSwap 1 - the most established public Haveno2 instance formerly known as Haveno Reto 3 - has announced4 the launch of its new brand identity website5:
NEW WEBSITE IS LAUNCHED - retoswap.com This is just the beginning - expect more from us !
The project has attracted some community criticism6 due to the corporate design choices, its seemingly monopolistic a … ⌘ Read more
Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 48, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.
 at a rate of 50€ / hour. At 150€ / XMR this makes ~130 XMR.
Total funding: 130 XMR.
ETA: (end of) February 2025.
The dev will continue … ⌘ Read more
4rkal creates XMR ‘micro-tipping’ tool for P2Pool mini miners
4rkal1 has announced2 the beta release3 of Donate Monero Via P2Pool (DMVP2P) 4, a new tool that enables XMR micro-tipping via P2Pool mini 5 for miners on Linux and Windows:
Would love to get some feedback on a new project I started [..] Basically it’s a simple GUI that will allow you to mine to a certain users address via p2pool mini. Think monerodevs but donating via … ⌘ Read more
[LTH] RTL native speaker for Moner.ooo
Programming experience is not required. Translation can be done via Weblate, or Github. I need it not only for the translation, but also for the final feedback. Whether the website is displayed correctly. It doesn’t matter which language, it just has to be an rtl language. (right to left)
Links:
mail@moner.ooo / luke@jabber.ccc.de (XMP … ⌘ Read more
[LFF] [1.2 XMR] Fundraiser for hosting the Monero archive for one more year
I have now been hosting the monero archive for more than a year now (started sometime in September 2023), I would like to keep on hosting it for one more year (at least). This fundraiser is for one more year of hosting. The price is the same at 0.1 XMR/month for hosting + maintenance.
Links:
- https://kuno.anne.media/fundraiser/yg9f/
- https://git.4rkal.com/
- [archiv32ihkwhf26umylx3u7tg … ⌘ Read more
rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://twtxt.net/search?q=tags:219”>#219**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2192’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers November 21-28 2024 news:
Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support
To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.
Stack Wallet adds support for XMR view-only wallets, ‘churn options’
rehrar1 has released Stack Wallet2 version 2.1.83 with support for Monero view-only wallets and churn options 4, various other changes and bug fixes.
Added Monero churn options
Added ability to set tor/clearnet options for individual nodes
Bug fixes for Solana, Tezos, ETH, Cardano, and epic
Paynym temporarily disabled while kinks worked out
Adju ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/stack-wallet-v2.1.8-support-monero-view-only-wallets-churn-options/)Gingeropolous’s ‘Monero Research Computing’ cluster upgrade CCS ready for funding
Gingeropolous1’s CCS proposal2 to upgrade their Monero Research Computing cluster is ready for funding:
Funding needed: 20 XMR
To support this proposal, you can donate any XMR amount to the address listed on its Gitlab Funding Required 2 page.
Consult the previous Monero Observer report3 to learn more about this CCS.
- https://gi … ⌘ Read more
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 4 December 2024 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, December 4th 2024 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 3 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, December 3 2024 at 18:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #cuprate channels.
Agenda overviewCuprate is an effort to create an alternative Monero node implementation.
Greetings
Updates: What is everyone working on?
Project: What is next for Cuprate?
Any other business
The meeting’s moderator should be Boog9003. Consult the Cuprate code … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] Improve Monero guide on Privacyguides
Links:
- https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/suggestion-elaborate-how-to-get-monero/16817/5
- https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/suggestion-elaborate-how-to-get-monero/16817/7
- https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org
@basses:matrix.org ⌘ Read more
binarybaron posts second progress report for XMR-BTC atomic swaps ecosystem CCS proposal
binarybaron1 and einliterflashche2 have posted a second progress report3 for their CCS proposal to continue XMR-BTC atomic swaps4 development and help transform the ecosystem from a prototype into a mature marketplace 5:
This month we completed the networking upgrade, made lots of usability improvements to the GUI, began natively … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] Full-Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP++) is expected to be live on testnet within the next few months!
Links:
- https://farside.link/nitter/monero/status/1861129765870092395
- /kayabanerve-submits-ccs-proposal-full-chain-membership-proofs/
u/dEBRUYNE_1 (Reddit) ⌘ Read more
Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 2 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, December 2 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:
Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.
This meeting’s chai … ⌘ Read more
hinto-janai releases Gupax v1.3.10
hinto-janai1 has released Gupax 2 version 1.3.103 with multiple changes to its list of XMR remote nodes and visual/text modifications:
Remote Node changes:
- Removed monero1.heitechsoft.com
- Removed node.cryptocano.de
- Removed fbx.tranbert.com
- Removed home.allantaylor.kiwi
- Removed sf.xmr.support
Bundled Versions:
-P2Pool v4.2
-XMRig v6.22.2
The full changelog, sources, SHA256SUM and .asc files can be found … ⌘ Read more
[AFH] Network engineer
Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/MoneroMining/comments/1gzlas4/
u/I-AM-A-DUMBO (Reddit) ⌘ Read more
BenraouaneSoufiane submits CCS proposal to launch CryptoCheckout ‘email marketing campaign’
BenraouaneSoufiane1 has submitted a second CCS proposal2 looking to launch an email marketing campaign for the CryptoCheckout 3 project in an effort to onboard new users:
CryptoCheckout is a secure simple decentralized crypto payment gateway, enable merchants to accept crypto payments on their websites. CryptoCheckout integrates monero in … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] Monero Remote Node Monitoring project updates
Since my last post on Reddit in June 2024, there have been some major changes and new features.
* updated the license from GLWTS to a more widely recognized and permissive one (BSD-3-Clause)
* UI: switched from SvelteKit to Templ+HTMX to reduce external dependencies
* added support for monitoring both IPv6 and I2P nodes
* set up a Tor Hidden service for the web UI
Links:
- GitHub repository
- [Website](https://xmr.d … ⌘ Read more