Issue 228: February 16 - 23, 2025
Table of Contents:
Recent News
Monero Research Lab contributor Rucknium has completed the 2nd milestone of his statistical CCS research project. Read all about it here.
As well, Rucknium has released all OSPEAD documents and code after years of research. “The OSPEAD techniques suggest a new decoy distribution, which would reduce the average attack success probability to 7.6 percent, corresponding to an effective ring size of 13.2.” OSPEAD repository; OSPEAD docs. Reddit thread.
Cake v4.23.2 and Monero.com v1.20.2 released with improvements for Zano; Ledger; Ethereum; and squashing away some bugs. Feedback? Here!
0xanon uploaded the memonero repository: “This script deterministically generates a Monero wallet from an argon2id hash of a text provided by the user. The exact same text will generate the exact same wallet, as long as you know what text you used, you can retrieve your wallet’s seed with no additional information.”
Upcoming Events
February 24, 2025 (Monday) - 18:00 UTC
Monero Tech Meeting - #no-wallet-left-behind IRC channel; Matrix room.
February 25, 2025 (Tuesday) - 18:00 UTC
Cuprate Workgroup Meeting - #cuprate IRC channel; Matrix room.
February 26, 2025 (Wednesday) - 18:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.
March 1, 2025 (Saturday) - 17:00 UTC
MoneroKon 5 Meeting - #monerokon IRC channel; Matrix room.
CCS Proposal Ideas
Below you can find some CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.
2025 Q1 Proposal by vtnerd.
Btcpayserver plugin by napoly.
full time work (3 months) by hinto.
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 26.61 of 45.6 XMR (58%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 3354261
Hash rate: 3.88 GH/s
Average txs. per block: 39.74
Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: 25437
Block reward: 0.6 XMR
Data taken on February 23, 2025.
XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks
Price & Performance
XMR Market Cap: $4,359,056,830.
Street Price: $236.00.
Monero (XMR) Price
| 02/23/25 | Week | Month | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $236.73 | +3.14% | +7.39% | +91.46% |
| EUR | €225.86 | +3.21% | +7.62% | +97.88% |
| BTC | ₿0.002454 | +2.78% | +16.71% | +0.69% |
Data taken on February 23, 2025.
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.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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