N1co1asB1ancon1 submits CCS proposal to develop and release ‘Monero Contract System’ v1
N1co1asB1ancon11 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 to finish developing the first version of Monero Contract System 3, a Rust web application which allows users to host their own arbitration/escrow platform:

People can create contracts like, “You will build me a website like X and Y in 1 month” or the what i think will be the most common “You will sell me 10 xmr for … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Birthright, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/06/birthright-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Výzva ÚSŽZ
Milé krajanky, milí krajania, na našej webovej stránke https://www.uszz.sk pribudla nová sekcia „Výročia”, kde si chceme spoločne pripomínať významné udalosti, osobnosti a okamihy z histórie slovenských komunít v zahraničí. Naším cieľom je postupne budovať databázu kľúčových historických míľnikov a zachovať tak dôležité príbehy pre budúce generácie. Máte tip na významné výročie pre rok 2025? Ak poznáte udalosti, spolky alebo osobnosti, ktoré by podľa Vás mali byť sú … ⌘ Read more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 co-located event deep dive: OpenFeature Summit
Co-chairs: Michael Beemer, Jonathan Norris, Thomas PoignantApril 1, 2025London At the OpenFeature Summit, we want attendees to leave with a deep understanding of the latest trends and real-world use cases in feature flagging. This event is… ⌘ Read more

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Zen and the art of microcode hacking
Now that we have examined the vulnerability that enables arbitrary microcode patches to be installed on all (un-patched) Zen 1 through Zen 4 CPUs, let’s discuss how you can use and expand our tools to author your own patches. We have been working on developing a collection of tools combined into a single project we’re calling zentool. The long-term goal is to provide a suite of capabilities similar to binutils, but targeting AMD microcode instead of CPU mach … ⌘ Read more

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Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 12 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 12th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• Release of OSPEAD HackerOne and CCS milestone submissions4
  
• Possible intermediate hard fork before FCMP hard fork
  
• Research on sub … ⌘ Read more

For point 1 and others using the metadata tags. we have implemented them in yarnd as [lang=en][meta=data]

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 co-located event deep dive: Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day
Co-chairs: Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Thiago Gil, Yuan TangApril 1, 2025London Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day brings together a diverse range of technical enthusiasts, open source contributors, practitioners, researchers and end users, all united in… ⌘ Read more

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Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 11 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, March 11 2025 at 18:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #cuprate channels.

Cuprate 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 reposi … ⌘ Read more

b4n6_b4n6, not-a-money-printer propose bounties to make Monero GUI, RetoSwap, UnstoppableSwap ‘Whonix friendly’
b4n6_b4n61 and not-a-money-printer2 have proposed bounties3’4’5 to make monero-wallet-gui6, RetoSwap7, and UnstoppableSwap8 Whonix friendly 9:

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#1 Make monero-wallet-gui whonix friendly
Total Bounty: ~0.12 XMR (to date)

#2 Make reto swap whonix friendly
To … ⌘ Read more”`

Zima s knihou v Kysáči
Tradičné zimné putovné podujatie Slovenského vydavateľského centra (SVC) a Slovenského kultúrneho klubu z Báčskeho Petrovca po zastávke v Hložanoch zavítalo v nedeľu 2. marca 2025 do Kysáča. Včerajší literárny večer Zima s knihou sa v Kysáči tešil mimoriadnemu úspechu – nezostala voľná ani jedna stolička. Tento vydarený večer bol výsledkom výbornej organizačnej spolupráce Spolku kysáčskych žien a Spolku kysáčskych starobných penzistov, ktorého novou predsedníčkou sa … ⌘ Read more

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Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 10 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 10 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner72 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis3/JAMTIS4, FCMPs5, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer6.

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selsta submits CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until end of May 2025
selsta1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue working part-time on Monero development for 3 more months, until the end of May 2025:

Work for 30 hours per week over the next 3 months (from March to end of May) at a rate of 50€ / hour. At 210€ / XMR this makes ~93 XMR.

Total funding: 93 XMR.

ETA: (end of) May 2025.

The dev will continue testing and reviewing PR’s, Mone … ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23229”>#229**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2292’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers February 23-2 March 2025 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.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and M … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.1
This release resolves an issue with Gajim’s preferences window and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!

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Gajim 2.0

A note for Windows users: At the time of writing, there are some issues with emoji rendering on Windows. That’s why there is no release of Gajim 2.0 for Windows yet. This issue should soon be resolved and we will post an update once Gajim 2.0 is released on Windows.

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SChernykh releases P2Pool v4.4
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool 2 version 4.43 with various new features and fixes.

New Features:
* Added RPC-SSL support for Monero node connections
* Removed deprecated --config command line parameter
* Faster initial sync (0.5-1 seconds saved on verification of blocks)
Bugfixes:
* Updated internal dependencies

The full list of changes since v4.3 is available on Github4.

Before using the software, you should v … ⌘ Read more

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 9 2025: 20 PRs, 9 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.

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #98211 Fix HTTP unit tests (broken with new Boost versions) (vtnerd)
  
• #98202 Add incoming only test (vtnerd)
  
• #98233 Add incoming only test [0.18] (vtnerd)
  
• **#9824 … ⌘ Read more

MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 8 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 8th 2025 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 a CCS proposal to partially fund this year’s event is cu … ⌘ Read more

** Job posting **
I don’t write about work here. Not really as a rule, but out of habit.

It is a Saturday, and this morning at around 1 AM the federal government here in the U.S. fired my entire team, and the whole group they worked out of, 18f. This means that the team I was on is now just me. I was the only one not from 18f.

Nothing about this will increase efficiency or help anyone, at all.

If any of you beautiful RSS people are hiring senior level designers or qualitative researchers, please reach out and I can make introd … ⌘ Read more

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Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 9, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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![‘Owning and using Monero is not a crime’ picture](/assets/img/art/25-9/owning-and-using-monero-is-not-a-cri … ⌘ Read more

plowsof submits proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator until end of June 2025
plowsof1 has submitted a new proposal2 looking to continue working as CCS Coordinator for 3 more months (from April to end of June 2025), after a successful fifth term3:

Hello, plowsof here, I show up and try to be helpful. My previous proposals happened, previously again. I would like to make it happen again, and do more of the same things.

Total funding: 72.6 XMR ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/plowsof-submits-proposal-ccs-coordinator-april-june-2025/)

Monero Observer Blitz #39 - February 2025
Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:

• binaryFate published a long overdue February 2025 Monero General Fund transparency report ( 1)
  
• Rucknium publicly released all OSPEAD-related documents and code after 3+ years of research ( 2)
  

• **There were four Monero Research Lab … ⌘ Read more

acx submits CCS proposal to develop and maintain ‘Monfluo’ XMR wallet
acx1 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 looking to continue developing and maintaining Monfluo 3, a pure Monero wallet for Android:

About six months ago I have forked Mysu (an abandoned Android wallet) and continued its development and maintenance. The fork is named Monfluo [..] a very simple wallet, and one of the goals is having no “integrations” such as swapping services, se … ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel submits CCS proposal to maintain ‘Revuo Monero’ in Q2 2025
rottenwheel1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to continue maintaining the Revuo Monero 3 newsletter for 3 months (April-June 2025):

I will maintain Revuo Monero (https://www.revuo-xmr.com/) for the next 3 months (2025 Q2): April, May and June. There is a chance I may skip one week to tend to real life issues, in such case, next issue will just cover 2 weeks instead of … ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev

• System Design Interview Vol. 1 and 2, Alex Xu and Sahn Lam
  
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann

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Walletverse submits CCS proposal to integrate Monero into their ‘community-driven crypto wallet’
The Walletverse 1 team has submitted a CCS proposal2 looking to integrate Monero into their community-driven crypto wallet 3:

This integration will enhance the privacy and functionality of the Walletverse wallet and contribute to the wider adoption of Monero by making it more accessible.

Total funding: 135 XMR.

ETA: 3+ months.

• M1: Core Moner … ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.9.0
It has not been too long since 1.8.6 and here we are with 1.9.0, which is kind of a major release (following the well-known pridever numbering scheme).

Long story short, there are at least two major changes warranting the new number (and plenty of other things, read on!):

• switching the cython jid implementation for a rust one, which will be faster and more correct
  
• removing the xmpp.process() method (planned since the 1.8.0 release)
  

Special thanks to nicoco … ⌘ Read more

Kiwi SOM Featuring Wi-Fi 7 Qualcomm IPQ-9570 Dual USXGMII and PCIe Expansion
Following the development of its Wi-Fi 6 System-on-Modules, Mango and Cherry, 8DEVICES has introduced Kiwi, a Wi-Fi 7 SOM based on the Qualcomm IPQ-9570 network processor. The Kiwi SOM runs Linux OpenWRT, providing flexibility for various embedded networking applications. This module features a quad-core Cortex-A73 CPU running at 2.2 GHz with a 1 MB L2 […] ⌘ Read more

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Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 1 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 1st of March 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 channels.

Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.

_This is an ongoing story and the repor … ⌘ Read more

Haasoscope Pro Open Source USB Oscilloscope with 2 GHz Bandwidth and 3.2 GS/s Sampling
Crowd Supply recently launched Haasoscope Pro, an upgraded version of the original open-source USB oscilloscope introduced in 2018. It features a 2 GHz bandwidth, 12-bit resolution, and a 3.2 GS/s sampling rate, providing an open-hardware solution for high-speed signal analysis. According to the product page, oscilloscopes with bandwidths above 1 GHz are typically designe … ⌘ Read more

How is Mozilla Spending that $1 Million from US Taxpayers?
That’s right, the Firefox maker (turned activist organization) received a $1,051,622 grant from US Federal Government. ⌘ Read more

12 years of incubating Wayland color management
The Wayland color-management protocol extension has landed on Feb 13th, 2025, in upstream wayland-protocols repository in the staging directory. It was released with wayland-protocols 1.41. The extension enables proper interactions between traditional (sRGB), Wide Color Gamut (WCG), and High Dynamic Range (HDR) image sources and displays once implemented in Wayland compositors and used in applications. Of course, a protocol is just a la … ⌘ Read more

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Boog900, hinto-janai, vtnerd CCS proposals ready for funding
Three CCS proposals have been moved to the funding stage and are now looking for community support:

• Boog900’s !544 1: full time work on Cuprate (3 months) + January 2
  
• hinto-janai’s !543 3: full-time work (3 months) 4
  
• vtnerd’s !553 5: full-time 2025 q1/q2 6
  

To support the above proposals you can donate to the XMR addresses listed on the _Funding Requi … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 5 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 5th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• Release of OSPEAD HackerOne and CCS milestone submissions4
  
• Research on subnet deduplication for peer selection to reduce spy node ris … ⌘ Read more

spirobel submits CCS proposal to develop Monero Payment Links, Browser Wallet, multisig companion app
spirobel1 has submitted a CCS proposal2 to finish developing the Monero Browser Wallet3, create a self-hostable Stripe Payment Links 4 alternative5 and a multisig companion app, in an effort to make XMR web shopping more convenient and secure:

Currently Monero shoppers have to copy and paste addresses from the t … ⌘ Read more

And, Ramadan is next week. So, we switched to UTC from UTC+1 in the weekend. As if it’s going to make the days any shorter 😅