Episode notes
General
Monero's 11th birthday
- Monero launched on April 18th, 2014 by thankful_for_today
- Code fork of Bytecoin, was basically a scam created from an amazing whitepaper (Cryptonote) and extensively pre-mined/lied about
- Monero has continued to consistently and effectively iterate and improve over those 11y
- Most likely caused by a major theft of 3520 BTC, which was then supposedly swapped entirely to Monero via instant exchangers
- Zachxbt uses Monero for payments "frequently"
- August 10th deadline
- Migration to Cake is their recommended path
- No conspiracy theories that I know of, have worked closely with them on the migration path
- https://monero.observer/exodus-to-end-support-monero-10-august-2025/
- Very antagonistic in the past
- Refused to block or freeze funds from the ByBit hack, broadly used to move funds to other cryptocurrencies, including Monero
- Many centralized services and exchanges marked their funds as tainted immediately after their handling of the ByBit hack, neutering the usefulness of swapping through eXch overall
- Supposedly being targeted by a "transatlantic operation", no real evidence provided but after ByBit hack funds moved through them it's not impossible
- https://monero.observer/exch-instant-exchange-to-shut-down-may-1-2025/
Monero v0.18.4.0
- DoS vulnerability fix
- Was widely deployed via my Docker image and by most popular node operators, including Cake, before this public release
- Background sync w/ view key only
- This is how Cake Wallet is doing background sync
- Drastically improved disk writes necessary when synchronizing a Monero node
- Less wear on disks, slightly faster
- https://monero.observer/monero-v0.18.4.0-fluorine-fermi-released/
v4.25
- New logo
- Talk about new brand
- Drastically improved Monero wallet performance, especially for wallets with extensive history
- Broad UI/UX enhancements
- BIP 39 seeds and wallet groups for Monero
- DFX's OpenCryptoPay
- Open standard for simple integration of Bitcoin/Monero payments into traditional PoS systems
- Rolling out to all Spar stores in Switzerland, getting a ton of publicity
- Only Cake Wallet supports it natively, but Lightning wallets with LN-URL support don't require direct integration
- Drastically improved address display, using the Bitcoin Design guidelines as seen in Trezor and Foundation hardware wallets
- Drastically simplified buying/selling of crypto
- Drastically improved background sync
- Limit to wifi-only, charging-only, inactive-only, etc.
- Supports all cryptos now, except Decred
- Fixes a bunch of edge cases and rare bugs with background sync
- Lots of minor improvements and bug fixes
- Minor improvements and bug fixes, nothing major
- Important steps towards a safer and more usable project
- Loving using Haveno Reto (retoswap.com)
- https://monero.observer/woodser-releases-haveno-v1.1.1-bugfixes/
- https://monero.observer/woodser-releases-haveno-v1.1.0-bugfixes/
- https://monero.observer/woodser-releases-haveno-v1.0.19-fixes-improvements/
- Minor updates overall
- Updated to Monero v0.18.4.0
- Updated integrated Tor + OpenSSL
- https://monero.observer/tobtoht-releases-feather-wallet-v2.8.1/
- https://monero.observer/feather-wallet-v2.8.0-released-fixes-improvements/
- Minor improvements and bug fixes
- Awesome way to get started mining Monero on any computer
- https://monero.observer/cyrix126-releases-gupaxx-v1.9.0/
- Namceoin name purchased and management in-app
- Minor improvements and updates
- https://monero.observer/rehrar-releases-stack-wallet-v2.1.11/
Monfluo v0.7.0
- Dead-simple stripped down wallet
- Focus is on no integrations or features, just send/receive simplicity
- Not my cup of tea, but to each their own
- https://monero.observer/acx-releases-monfluo-beta-v0.7.0/
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