The Monero Standard #6: 23 March 2022 - 30 March 2022

Table of Contents

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

Recent News

• Two critical bugs in Chromium browser codebase have been found and it's highly recommended to update your Chromium (and its forks, e.g. Brave) ASAP.
• Coinbase CEX is starting to require Canadian citizens to provide them the recipient's name and address for all transactions above $1000 as of April 4. It's advised to withdraw everything from the exchange to your non-custodial wallets and avoid Coinbase at all cost. Join the right side of the history; KYCNot.Me.

• Coincards, gift card retail seller for cryptocurrencies, announced that in the last week they sold as much gift cards in Monero as they did in Bitcoin.
• Last weeks have been a great effort by Zcash shills trying to raise their voices over the argument of why Zcash is superior than Monero, you can see it by yourself. But as the last nail in coffin, I'd like to point you to this website.
• UkoeHB's Seraphis PoC CCS proposal is fully funded!
• Monero-GUI will add native P2Pool support in the next stable release.
• Crypt0-Bear shared "The System" music video from the album "Make Crypto Scary Again".

Price and Blockchain Statistics

Price Chart

Hashrate Distribution

Fun Facts

How Much Private?

Wondering how much information is available to public and miner/node-operators when transacting with Monero instead of Bitcoin?

Merchants

Crypto for the Homeless

CFTHL is a crowd-funded effort by some crypto-enthusiasts who hand-deliver food to the homeless. Most homeless people never utilize any form of charity, they exist to serve these humans. Their goal is to have volunteers all around the world. You can help them by either donating cryptocurrencies or volunteering for food delivery. God bless you all.

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.
• CryptoGrampy asked for enthusiasts to test the PocketNode project's alpha version and give feedback on it. PocketNode is a stand-alone Android Monero node.
• Monero-bash, a Monero wrapper written in Bash, submitted a CCS proposal to further develop the software. You can either donate or contribute to the project.

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:

• Minimal, Embeddable, Zero-javascript Shopping cart + Pay Server
• Let more people use XMR, telegram push, small transactions done in seconds, docker private deployment, provide free API service
• SolOptXMR - Solar Optimal mining of XMR
• Creation of Python tools and educational material for checking and explaining the absence of money leakage (a.k.a. inflation) in Monero.
• monero-bash, a wrapper for monero written in bash, for Linux
• Translation of Monero GUI Wallet, CLI Wallet, monero-site, Behavioral Finance, Cryptocurrency Markets (subtitles), Moneropedia, User Guides to Greek
• Haveno frontend development
• The Monero Moon CCS proposal - March 2022
• whatnero_android_app
• Help Ukraine to use ONLY Monero
• Monero Afghanistan Expansion Strategy

Funding Required:

• N/A

Monerujo Funding

• N/A

Meme of the Week

Study Time

The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg is a book that tries to predict the effects of the Information Revolution. The authors explore this by using a “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes” approach. i.e. They analyze the Industrial Revolution and then try to map that onto the Information Revolution. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.

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

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