1 Jul 2022

[blitz]

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

• HackerIndustrial submitted a CCS proposal to build MoneroSigner (1)
• OrangeFren project announced the addition of their new Guarantee service (2)
• Cake Labs added an option to buy and sell XMR with fiat on the Monero.com website (3)
• melon_crust launched the Learn Monero course website (4)
• John Foss published 4 new The Monero Moon newsletter issues (#45-#48) (5,6,7,8)
• ACK-J posted a May 2022 update for their MAGIC-funded research proposal (9)
• Monero Talk interviewed Elizabeth Binks on developing ETH-XMR atomic swaps (10)
• selsta posted a May 2022 Monero dev report (11)
• vdo released xmr.sh v0.3.1 (12)
• The community held 2 final MoneroKon 2022 Planning Meetings (13,14)
• There were 5 Monero Research Lab meetings in June (15,16,17,18,19)
• v1docq47 posted an April-May 2022 CCS progress report (20)
• HackerIndustrial created a MoneroDice-WalletGen script that generates offline XMR wallet seeds by rolling dice (21)
• spackleXMR published a video in which he goes through the Elliptic Curve Cryptography section of the Zero to Monero: Second Edition e-book (22)
• fatalglory published the code for his monero-tx-scanner npm package on Github (23)
• hennyh won xmrvsbeast’s bounty for restoring bounties.monero.social functionality (24)
• xmrvsbeast proposed a bounty for adding a P2Pool mining feature to the Monero GUI Wallet in Simple mode (25)
• Monero entered its tail emission era on June 9th at 00:28:57 UTC, after block 2641623 was mined (26)
• rottenwheel published 4 Revuo Monero issues (#123-#126) (27,28,29,30)
• vdo released xmr.sh v0.3.3 with Arm64 and monero-lws support (31)
• xmrvsbeast proposed a bounty for adding a P2Pool statistical mining dashboard to the Monero GUI Wallet (32)
• Monero Talk has uploaded video and audio clips from the 2022 Libertarian National Convention (LNC22) (33)
• bordecraft managed to run a Monero node on their Steam Deck (34)
• noot published an ETH-XMR atomic swaps protocol document and completed the 6th milestone for her CCS proposal (35)
• larteyoh was looking to open a paid bounty program for the development of Neroshop, an online marketplace for Monero users (36)
• Cake Labs founder Vik Sharma was looking to give away his 2 personal MoneroKon22 VIP tickets to winners of a Monero Trivia Night game (37)
• Haveno temporarily suspended UI development, blaming XMR bears (38)
• Kivojo published 3 The Monero Standard issues (#15-#17) (39,40)
• Daily Monero transactions reached a new all-time high with 42,244 confirmed (41)
• Ghostnet announced their new Monero-focused P2P platform (42)
• Haveno allocated a 2 XMR bounty for restoring the Funds tab of the legacy Bisq desktop app UI (43)
• There was one Monero Development Workgroup meetings this month (45)
• Cake Wallet was looking to launch a gift card marketplace within the next month (46)
• l0nelyc0w shared a design document that visualizes how PenumbraDEX will operate (47)
• mjxmr posted a May-June 2022 Monero dev report (48)
• kayabNerve shared the Monero Secret Sharing PoC tool, which provides a way to back up an XMR wallet among trusted parties (49)
• benevanoff shared a demo for the Simpla Vendejo Monero e-commerce web app (50)
• MasFlam open sourced the code for the MoneroChad Discord bot (51)
• valldrac announced that the Molly.im project will not meet proposed deadlines (52)
• SoiledCold5 submitted a CCS proposal to add XMR and WOW to Garlix.io and GarlixPay (53)
• john_r365 proposed a bounty for improving the bounties.monero.social website (54)
• Monero Community Workgroup started uploading videos from MoneroKon22 (55)
• Michael Schloh von Bennewitz submitted two CCS proposals to distribute merchandise and serve Monero content at DEF CON 30 (56)
• XMRig v6.18.0 was released with support for the upcoming v15 Monero network upgrade (57)
• Justin Berman posted the third and final Monero dev progress report for his Feb-May 2022 CCS proposal (58)
• Elizabeth completed the final milestone for her ETH-XMR atomic swaps CCS proposal (59)
• rbrunner7 published a new fictional Monero short story titled The Treasurer (60)
• MAGIC Grants was holding a MAGIC Monero Fund special election in wake of Vik Sharma’s voluntary resignation (61)
• pokkst created the Monero Decoy Scanner Python script (62)
• savandra’s CCS proposal to create Monero animated videos was almost fully funded (63)
• LeoNero submitted a CCS proposal for 2 months of full-time Monero dev work (64)
• Peter McCormack uploaded WBD episode 520: Privacy on Monero vs Bitcoin with Seth for Privacy (65)
• New Exodus Wallet release added support for Monero on the Trezor (66)
• SChernykh released P2Pool v2.2 (67)
• Monero’s v15 hard fork was rescheduled to August 13th 2022 at block 2688888 (68)

My personal contributions:

• published 4 weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 reports (Weeks: 22/23/24/25, 2022) (69,70,71,72)
• published 4 weekly MO XMR TA Reports (Weeks: 22/23/24/25) (73,74,75,76)
• published May 2022 MO Blitz Report: #10 (77)
• published 76 daily Monero Observer Reports & listed 60 Community Messages and 8 Calendar events (78,79) (consult the Archive page for a complete list (80))
• published 4 weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (Weeks: 22/23/24/25, 2022) (81,82,83,84)
• published 2 on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summary Reports (MRL 2022-06-08 & MRL 2022-06-22)(85,86)
• created Cheat Sheet: Monero CLI Wallet (87) and updated Resources, Calendar, Messages, Reports, Stats (full list of updates and improvements can be viewed on the Changelog page (88)

Credits/special thanks to:

• everyone that reported broken links, suggested edits, sent anonymous news tips and shared my reports
• the cypherpunks that keep sending me encrypted emails and messages
• gnuteardrops from Monero.Graphics for the amazing art
• all anon MO loyal readers and CCS contributors

That’s it for the 11th 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