Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 1, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.
[ANN] [CCS] Draft: New years resolutions
Link: https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/537
@plowsof:matrix.org ⌘ Read more
0xFFFC, j-berman, tobtoht CCS proposals ready for funding
Three CCS proposals have been moved to the funding stage and are now looking for community support:
- 0xFFFC’s!526 1: full-time C++ development (3 months, Jan, Feb, Mar, 2025) 2
- j-berman’s!527 3: full-time development (4 months) 4
- tobtoht’s!529 5: full-time feather + core development (3 months) 6
To support the above proposals you can donate to the XMR addre … ⌘ Read more
**(#eebumiq) But to be fair, we already knew this… I’ve observed it first hand, we knew it at the beginning. I’ll just leave you with this:
S …**
But to be fair, we already knew this… I’ve observed it first hand, we knew it at the beginning. I’ll just leave you with this:Stochastic Parrot
or put simply:
Artificial Incompetence ⌘ Read more
Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 6 January 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Monday, January 6 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 2 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.
This meeting’s chairperson will probably be rbrunner73 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis4/JAMTIS5, FCMPs6, and other long-term Monero development issues.
Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer … ⌘ Read more
Unlocking cloud native security with Cilium and eBPF
Ambassador post originally published on Dev.to by Syed Asad Raza Introduction 🌐🔒🚀 As cloud-native applications scale, securing workloads while maintaining performance becomes critical. This is where Cilium, an open-source networking, observability, and security tool, shines. Backed… ⌘ Read more
[WTS] [0.005 XMR] Zen Mind - Shunryu Suzuki Digital Scans
I’ve scanned this book. There are 68 pics (138 pages). These scans are double-paged (2 pages scanned at same time). (47MB) Download link is a Tor/Onion link, using the OnionShare program. You will need the Tor browser to download. After purchasing, you will automatically receive the download link.
Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/Qbby/
themaker117@conversations.im (XMPP) ⌘ Read more
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 8 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 8th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
- Updates. What is everyone working on?
- Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography3
This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium4. The full dis … ⌘ Read more
everoddandeven proposes bounty for monero-cpp Python bindings module
everoddandeven1 has proposed a bounty2 for creating a Python module that exposes the core functionalities of the monero-cpp library 3:
This module should enable Python developers to interact with monero-cpp API using a Pythonic interface without needing to write or interact with C++ code directly.
Total Bounty: 0 XMR (to date)
Payout criteria overview
- Code is ope … ⌘ Read more
Monero Observer Blitz #37 - December 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:
設計模式 in Go: Observer
行爲模式旨在解決對象間通信和交互相關的問題,專注於定義那些複雜到無法靜態設計的協作策略,這些協作策略使得程序可以在運行時動態地進行職責派遣以實現更好的擴展。今天我們開始第 8 個行爲模式的學習 —— Observer(觀察者模式)。問題背景:—–觀察者模式用於當對象之間存在一對多關係時,即一個對象的變化需要傳播給多個其他對象。它允許被觀察對象的狀態發生變化時,其他依賴對象能自動收到通知並進行 ⌘ Read more
[WTS] Collection clean out! 90% silver, gold panda, silver bullion, world coins, commemoratives, errors, toning, graded silver, red seal banknote, copper, state quarter album.
Bitcoin and Monero receive a 3% discount. Preference will be given to anyone willing to take large lots or use crypto. Take everything in the listing, and we’ll work out a good bulk discount! Feel free to send an offer on anything! I’m flexible on most pricing when it comes to selling in a lot (or for Bitcoin). Free shipping on purchases over $75.
Link: [ht … ⌘ Read more
Solving Android app issues with OpenTelemetry: Beyond local profiling
Member post originally published on the Embrace blog by Francisco Prieto Cardelle OpenTelemetry is a powerful observability framework that can help engineers monitor and resolve common Android performance issues. We’ll dive into a few of these… ⌘ Read more
Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 4 January 2025 1600 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 4th of January 2025 at 16:00 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 … ⌘ Read more
P2Pool v4.3 released with initial sync improvements
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool 2 version 4.33 with initial sync improvements, various new features and bugfixes.
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New Features:
- Added –data-dir command line option
- Added –no-stratum-http command line option to disable HTTP on Stratum ports
- Faster initial sync (0.5-1 seconds saved on verification of blocks)
Bugfixes:
- TLS: fixed not being able to use Letsencrypt certificate … ⌘ Read more”`
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 1 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 1st 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
- Updates. What is everyone working on?
- Discussion: preventing P2P proxy nodes3
- Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography4
This meeting’s cha … ⌘ Read more
MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 4 January 2024 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, January 4th 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.
_Note that the upcoming event will take place in Prague on June 20-22 2025[5]( … ⌘ Read more
woodser releases haveno-ts v0.0.32
woodser1 has released haveno-ts 2 (Haveno3 TypeScript library) version 0.0.324 with a few fixes and updates:
NodeJS environment support by @everoddandeven in #338
Pack all dist assets for npm install
The full changelog is available on Github5.
This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.
[ANN] Help wanted coming up with a new name for Mysu wallet
Link: https://codeberg.org/anoncontributorxmr/mysu/issues/44
u/unsanctionedf (Reddit) ⌘ Read more
[ANN] MiCAR and the Monero Ecosystem
The European Union’s Market in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCAR) comes into full effect on December 30th 2024. All ‘new’ obliged entities (crypto-asset service providers, token issuers, custodial wallet providers, stablecoin operators, etc) must be fully compliant on or before this date. Already existing crypto-asset service providers have until 1st July 2026 to demonstrate compliance and obtain their operating licence through their national competent authority, or cease operating/trading.
Links … ⌘ Read more
Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 52 2024: 94 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.
Opened (20)
monero-project/monero:
[WTS] [$120+] ‘Fire The Empire’ artwork
“Fire the Empire.” Acrylic on fine-grain 200g/m² paper, 11.7 x 16.5 inches. Original artwork No. 3 of 8 from an upcoming collection. Stay tuned for more. /SID
Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/EFTY/
S1DARTA0 (Twitter) ⌘ Read more
Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 52, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.
nisaba proposes bounty for PrestaShop XMR ‘payment integration’
nisaba1 has proposed a bounty2 for developing a Monero payment integration for the PrestaShop3 e-commerce platform:
Prestashop is an ecommerce platform to have about 1% global market share, but about 9% in french area.
Total Bounty: 0 XMR (to date)
Payout criteria
- code is open-sourced
- live example that can be tested
- assume one round of feedback and improvement
- ability to co … ⌘ Read more
rottenwheel submits CCS proposal to maintain ‘Revuo Monero’ in Q1 2025
rottenwheel1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to continue maintaining the Revuo Monero 3 newsletter for 3 months (January-March 2025):
I will maintain Revuo Monero (https://www.revuo-xmr.com/) for the next 3 months (2025 Q1): January, February and March. 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 … ⌘ Read more
rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23222”>#222**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2222’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers December 12-26 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.
hinto-janai completes Cuprate RPC handlers CCS
hinto-janai1 has posted a second and final progress report2 for their latest full-time Cuprate 3 dev work CCS proposal4 focused on RPC handlers5:
Day 120, I believe milestone 1 & 2 can be claimed. The main PR6 is done but requires review and will most likely need changes before merge. Regarding binary strings, the RPC handlers themselves are done although the inner callstack and semantics wil … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] PlayMonero: We now provide XMR Proof of Reserves
I’ve decided to make Proof of Reserves available for PlayMonero.com, a small site where you can place some bets on the blockchain.
Links:
- https://playmonero.com/#/Proof-of-Reserves
- https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1hmv1nc/
u/Mochi101-Official (Reddit) ⌘ Read more
[ANN] Tune-in to a Live MoneroTalk EPI TODAY 12/26 at 5pm-EST with @kayabaNerve
Luke Parker: FCMP’s, Serai, his call for a Post Quantum XMR & what he means by “stepping back”
Links:
monerotalk.live ⌘ Read more
0xFFFC posts November-December 2024 Monero dev report
0xFFFC1 has posted a monthly progress report2 for November-December 2024, which includes several dev updates:
Work overviewThe list of PRs is available here and few reviews. Some of fixes have introduced substantial improvement.3
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Reviews:
- guix: remove moreutils #9650
- unit_tests: fix variant tests after ‘optional’ name split #9649
- depends: add cmake config command #9640 [..]
PRs:
- wallet: r … ⌘ Read more”`
[WTS] [$400+] Lenovo Thinkpad P50, i7 vPro, 64gb RAM, 2TB SSD
Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/MzhX/
Ocean (XmrBazaar) ⌘ Read more
Dadybayo submits CCS proposal to integrate Monero into ‘Unstoppable Wallet’
Dadybayo1 has submitted a CCS proposal2 looking to integrate Monero into Unstoppable Wallet 3, a non-custodial crypto mobile wallet:
The funding will enable us to allocate the necessary resources for research & development, testing, and deployment of Monero support on the Unstoppable wallet. [..] We do not plan to stop here and will continue working towards integrating various … ⌘ Read more
Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 30 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, December 30 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 c … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] [Bounty] Gamepad-controlled cryptographic multitool with offline wallet address generator
Links:
whoeverlovesDigit (Nostr) ⌘ Read more
4rkal submits CCS proposal to develop and release ‘dmvp2p’ v1
4rkal1 has submitted a CCS proposal2 looking to finish developing Donate Monero Via P2Pool (dmvp2p) 3 version 1, create project documentation and a step by step video:
dmvp2p short for Donate Monero Via P2Pool, is a simple GUI application that allows users to donate monero to their favorite creators/projects using p2pool. This project is a cross platform application that will enable micro-tipping via p2p … ⌘ Read more
Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 51 2024: 13 PRs, 11 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 (11)
monero-project/monero:
[ANN] Brave Wallet poll: ‘Should Monero be integrated?’ - Go vote!
Link: https://farside.link/nitter/lukemulks/status/1870239086231044598
u/Unimamo (Reddit) ⌘ Read more
Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 51, 2024
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 23 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, December 23 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 c … ⌘ Read more
tobtoht submits CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Feather Wallet and Monero core dev work
tobtoht1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue full-time dev work on Feather Wallet 3 and Monero core codebase4 for the next 3 months:
I want to start off the year by clearing out a good chunk of the small-to-medium size issue/feature backlog for Feather. At the same time, making sure pending build system PRs5 for Mon … ⌘ Read more
Gate.io drops Monero ETF markets, plans to delist XMRUSDT perpetual contract on December 26 2024
Crypto CEX Gate.io 1 has announced plans2 to delist the XMRUSDT 3 perpetual contract from their platform on December 26 2024 at 8:00 UTC, after silently closing leveraged Monero ETF markets ( XMR3L and XMR3S 4) earlier today:
Gate.io will cease trading of the leveraged tokens XMR3L and XMR3S on December 20, 2024, at 10:00 UTC. [..] **Gate.io … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] Phantom Circuit: Introduction
Phantom Circuit is a fictional short story generated entirely by AI. It was inspired by a Darknet Diaries podcast episode [..] I also managed to work in some mention of Monero…
Link: https://cyberspace.dad/book/
j@cyberspace.dad (XMPP) ⌘ Read more
Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 21 December 2024 1600 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 21st of December 2024 at 16:00 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 a … ⌘ Read more
[ANN] Serai’s status as 2024 wraps up
This is an update on where the Serai project is. While I wish I could keep this professional, parts of it will be fundamentally intertwined with my personal life. Apologies to anyone who just wants a short, professional brief. [..] I am happy and relieved to announce an anonymous donor has enabled Serai’s upcoming audits. The donations themselves have been facilitated by MAGIC Grants.
Links:
[ANN] PiNodeXMR v6.24.12 update available - (Ban Lists)
Hi all, here at PiNodeXMR we’ve been following along with the MRL ban list discussion and have re-added the function to pull-in a ban list of IPs. In the name of decentralisation/anti-censorship, the ban lists are optional for PiNodeXMR users. You can find the new options in your terminal setup menu under “Extra Network tools”.
Links:
Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 7 January 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, January 7 2025 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 rep … ⌘ Read more
Haveno adds support for buying XMR without security deposit
woodser1 has released Haveno2 version 1.0.153 with support for buying Monero (initial purchases XMR) without security deposits4, which greatly simplifies the onboarding process for new traders:
Support buying XMR without deposit using passphrase
Increase limits: crypto to 528, very low risk to 132, pay by mail to 48
Support USDC
Show available Moner ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/haveno-v1.0.15-released-support-buying-monero-without-security-deposit/)
[LTH] [Bounty] [10 XMR] Apple Developer ID certificate and notarization for Feather Wallet
To continue supporting macOS, Feather Wallet is looking for an organization or individual to provide us with the ability to code-sign and notarize the application. We are not looking to publish Feather Wallet on the App Store - We will only distribute verifiably reproducible releases
Links:
… ⌘ Read more
‘The Monero Moon’ newsletter makes comeback with Issue #75 after short hiatus
John Foss1 has published Issue #752 of The Monero Moon curated weekly newsletter after a ~3.5 month hiatus:
After a few months’ hiatus due to life commitments ( wedding bells), we’re back! Explore this week’s edition for an update on all the latest Monero (XMR) news, developments, and entertainment!
The publication includes news about:
- Development, Releases, and Technology
- General News
- Eve … ⌘ Read more