Monero: 11 months later

What has the Monero Project been up to recently?

A talk by Richard Jones at Cryptocurrency Chesterfield on 05/08/19

Overview

  • Hardfork in April and new software

    Bringing new features, improvements and bug fixes

  • Increased awareness of Monero

    There has been a steady stream of awareness from Bitcoin maximalists on Monero's fungibility

  • Konferenco

    A Monero crowdfunded conference in Denver, Colorado. Featured two days of talks about Privacy, Security and of course, Monero

  • Other things

    Other interesting Monero things

  • Numbers

    Some interesting milestones have recently been reached

  • The future

    What's happening over the next 11 months?

  • End on some FUN!

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Hardfork & new software

Monero's bi-annual hardfork in April brought new features, improvements and bug fixes:

  • New mining algorithm - Cryptonight-R
  • Blockchain pruning (2/3rds)
  • Transaction/fee size (5%) & verification time (60%) decrease
  • Deterministic (reproducible) builds
  • Works with Trezor Model T and Ledger Nano X
  • Tor & I2P (CLI) wallet integration
  • Multisig Messaging System
  • Full list of updates

Increased awareness of Monero

The lack of base-layer privacy in Bitcoin is becoming more and more obvious. Attempts to achieve private transactions fail

Konferenco - Monero Kon

A Monero crowdfunded conference in Denver, Colorado. Featured two days of talks about Privacy, Security and of course, Monero

  • Government and Privacy, What’s Next?
  • Critical Decentralisation, Open & Libre Hardware for and with Monero
  • Bringing Privacy Mainstream: Building Demand for Shifting Global Demographic
  • Network Attacks and Obfuscation of Your Payment System
  • Perfect Privacy or Strong Deniability?
  • ASIC-Resistant Proof of Work: Fact or Fantasy?
  • Crypto for Good: Mining to Fund Humanitarian UAV Deployment
  • Konferenco videos
  • monerokon.com

Other things

Other interesting Monero things

  • Raspberry Pi Monero node images - PiNode-XMR & iCryptoNode
  • More wallets (Exodus) & exchanges
  • Since Cryptonight-R, hashrate has become better distributed

Numbers

Some interesting milestones have recently been reached

  • Bisq - ~98% XMRBTC vol, ~$1.5m daily vol
  • Inflation - Block reward is 2.50XMR per 2 min block
  • Today, Monero's daily emission is less than Bitcoin's (for the time being)
  • Recent prices: $75-$95 / 0.008 XMRBTC
  • Fees $0.01 for XMR, $5 for BTC
  • Monero up to 10th in the CMC

The future

What's happening over the next 11 months?

  • CLSAGS and MLSAGS
  • RingCT3.0
  • RandomX mining algorithm
  • Tari side/merged-mined chain still ongoing
  • Monero CCS funded hardware wallet (Kastelo) is still ongoing
  • DEF CON 2019

Minko.to release

A fun Monero game based on The Price is Right's Plinko

Questions?

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/r/monero
@monero
monero.stackexchange.com
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