Issue 224: January 12 - 23, 2025

Table of Contents:

Recent News

Pesky scammers are around! Supposedly some of the users in the Reddit thread have been running phishing websites for years. Stay cautious out there.

Haveno DEX v1.0.18 reducing space usage by 98%, wallets are saved less often; upgrades to Tor binaries; increases trade limit of no deposit offers to 1.5 XMR; bug fixes and improvements. RetoSwap v1.0.18 to follow shortly.

Anyone remember OSPEAD by Rucknium? We do! Milestone 2 has been completed and Ruck’s analysis has been passed to a few contributors for review. All documents and code to be released publicly by February 20th, per Rucknium.

MAGIC Monero Fund 2025 election results are out. I am happy to be joining the committee for one year starting on January 31, 2025.

Monero Talk had full-time Monero contributor, Justin Berman to talk all about the future of FCMP++ XMR; CARROT; substantial improvements for wallet synchronization; and more. Not short on technicalities! Peep it: Video; Audio.

Upcoming Events

January 25, 2025 (Saturday) - 17:00 UTC

MoneroKon 5 Meeting - #monerokon IRC channel; Matrix room.

January 27, 2025 (Monday) - 18:00 UTC

Monero Tech Meeting - #no-wallet-left-behind IRC channel; Matrix room.

January 28, 2025 (Tuesday) - 18:00 UTC

Cuprate Workgroup Meeting - #cuprate IRC channel; Matrix room.

January 29, 2025 (Wednesday) - 18:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.

CCS Proposal Ideas

Below you can find some CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.

Find more here. Posting comments in favor of, or against proposals is encouraged.

CCS Proposals Need Funding

monerotopia 2024 voiceovers and working on xmr.ru by v1docq47.

Raised 1.13 of 45.6 XMR (2%)

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 3331798

Hash rate: 3.77 GH/s

Average txs. per block: 43.24

Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: 32801

Block reward: 0.6 XMR

Data taken on January 23, 2025.

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $4,004,192,400.

Street Price: $240.25.

Monero (XMR) Price

01/23/25 Week Month Year
USD $217.46 -0.49% +13.09% +45.85%
EUR €208.37 -1.83% -12.61% +51.35%
BTC ₿0.002065 -5.6% +6.26% -45.49%

Data taken on January 23, 2025.

XMR Price Graph

XMR Price Graph

Sources: miningpoolstats.stream; bitinfocharts.com; coingecko.com; localmonero.co blocks; haveno.markets.

Volunteer Opportunities

If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren't sure how, check out some volunteer opportunities.

Test Monero Core Software

Anyone with moderate technical ability is encouraged to try to build and run Monero nightlies. Do not trust it with your Monero, but feel free to open an Issue on GitHub as problems arise. Instructions to build on your OS of choice can be found here.

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