The Monero Standard #15: 25 May 2022 - 1 June 2022

Table of Contents

• Recent News
• Price and Blockchain Statistics
• Facts or Guides
• Merchants
• Notable Projects
• Funding
• Meme of the Week
• Study Time
• Donation and Contact

Recent News

• 5555 blocks until tail emission. Are you ready Anon?
• SethForPrivacy published Proposed Bitcoin Privacy Improvements highlighting "A list of Bitcoin proposals and ideas to improve privacy that are still a work in progress, were abandoned or never implemented, or failed to make a noticeable impact" in addition to Accepting Monero via BTCPay Server guide.
• CryptoGrampy has shared a video about how to set up and use the Monero Point of Sale "HotShop". Demo here.
• Rucknium has done a statistical analysis on the latest Federal Reserve research about cryptocurrency usage, called "New Data on Banking the Unbanked in the U.S. through Cryptocurrency".
• Pluja launched Moneroj.info, independent knowledge website about Monero, with two initial knowledge articles 1, 2.
• Morpheus has added 10 new charts to their website, Moneroj.net.
• PiNodeXMR v5 has been released with the support for P2Pool.
• P2Pool v2.1 is out with minor improvements.

Price and Blockchain Statistics

Price Chart

Hashrate Distribution

Facts or Guides

Telegram Crypto Marketplaces

Two Monero marketplace groups exist in Telegram that you can join and trade with other members in a direct manner. You can join with these links: 1, 2.
Remember that Telegram is not a private messenger and for higher levels of privacy you should use Tor proxy (or I2P), a burner number and always use the secret chat for direct messages.

Merchants

Monerica Service Directory

A directory for a circular Monero economy

The goal of Monerica is to reflect the freedom ideals of the United States of America in the age of cryptocurrency by using Monero. There are no borders to Monerica. One has the ability to transact freely and privately without the need for a bank account, without the permission of any third party, and without the prying eyes of those who wish to control the thoughts and behaviors of others through surveillance and overreaching regulations.

Notable Projects

Monero

• MoneroOutreach.org has a very detailed article for newcomers and how they can help and contribute to the idea and philosophy of Monero, check them out. Also be sure to check this article in LocalMonero's Knowledge Base.
• Monero Bounties website is a well-written and up-to-date source of Monero projects.
• Help test the upcoming major Monero release for bugs
• Monero-playground, a collection of bash scripts for playing around with monero-wallet-rpc.
• Monero-gpg, a bash script for GPG-signing a message or file with the latest Monero block's hash for time-minimum functionality.

Other

• LibRedirect is a free-software extension for major browsers (currently available for Firefox and Edge in their native stores) that redirects you to privacy-preserving alternatives for many mainstream online services such as YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Wikipedia and more. Their GitHub repo is available here. Please note that Tor Browser developers advise not to install any additional extension into their browser, LibreWolf and Brave seem to be fine.
• Monero Art Fund is a community effort of artists and designers who try to provide the community with the latest gorgeous designs of MoneroChan, the anime girl becoming the mascot of Monero. If you enjoyed the art, support them by donation to help them continue. We at this newsletter had the pleasure to use their arts because we're too lazy. :)

Funding

CCS

Ideas:

• MoneroSigner. Fork of seedsigner for Monero
• escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Summer 2022)
• XMR BTC Atomic Swaps Desktop GUI - Continued development
• jeffro256: part-time dev work 2022Q3
• Moneroj.net improvements, articles and maintenance (3 months)
• Monero business kit
• Patronero - Open Source project for donating by mining
• Translation of Monero GUI Wallet, CLI Wallet, monero-site, Behavioral Finance, Cryptocurrency Markets (subtitles), Moneropedia, User Guides to Greek
• Monero Afghanistan Expansion Strategy

Funding Required:

• New Animated Videos

Monerujo Funding

• N/A

Meme of the Week

Study Time

Zero to Monero

A comprehensive conceptual (and technical) explanation of Monero.
We endeavor to teach anyone who knows basic algebra and simple computer science concepts like the ‘bit representation’ of a number not only how Monero works at a deep and comprehensive level, but also how useful and beautiful cryptography can be.

Donation and Contact

This newsletter is one of my dedicated jobs and LocalMonero pays me for writing it, but if you've found it informative and helpful, here is my wallet address:

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Thank you!

Contact Me

Found anything worth noting? Want to send something to be included in the next issue? Want to chat about something?

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