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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerDefcon is this weekend, and it's now FREE and ONLINE. Join our livestreams on YouTube or Twitch. Monero is the only cryptocurrency project with its own village for the past three years. Events this Friday to Sunday include meme competitions, MRL sessions, academic talks, project demonstrations, trivia, and puzzles! Starts every day around 10 PST (17 UTC). YouTube: youtube.com/c/monerocommunityworkgroup Twitch: www.twitch.tv/monerovillage/ Discord: discord.gg/defcon Website: getmonero.org
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerContributing researchers to the Monero Research Lab and the Monero Audit Workgroup are pleased to announce the results of a recent audit of the CLSAG ring signature construction. CLSAG enables smaller and faster transactions with rigorous security. Users can expect to see these benefits seamlessly integrated into Monero software at the next network upgrade, which will occur in October of this year. This audit provides additional confidence that migrating the Monero protocol from MLSAG signatures to CLSAG signatures can be done safely and securely. We would like to thank JP Aumasson and Antony Vennard for their report. getmonero.org/2020/07/31/clsag-audit.html
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerResearch regarding Bitcoin-Monero Cross-chain atomic swaps by h4sh3d is now complete! Read and discuss the paper, which was funded through the Monero CCS: www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/i1fknt/ccs_results_monero_atomic_swaps_research/
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerThe next Monero network upgrade, which will enable CLSAG transactions that are approximately 20-25% more efficient, will happen on October 17. More details to follow.
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerMonero is now available on NiceHash exchange. www.nicehash.com/blog/post/monero-xmr-is-now-available-on-nicehash-exchange
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerAndreas Antonopoulos Bitcoin Q&A: Will Bitcoin Implement Privacy Features Similar to Monero? A: No, not really www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F-hJZHtn80
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerMonero General Fund Transparency Report (2019 - June 2020) The Monero Core team only receives donations and has never taken any portion of the block reward. getmonero.org/2020/06/30/gf-transparency-report.html
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerMonero has REAL privacy, not POTENTIAL privacy. Demand that protocols build privacy solutions that are actually used. Privacy features that are not adopted by users might as well not exist. Monero is the only coin that protects the sender, receiver, and amount for all users. It's not even close. This is the bare minimum level of safety protections that should be expected of any coin. Monero is the only coin that offers its users REAL privacy. Why does REAL privacy matter? Since February 2017, Monero had more transactions EACH MONTH protecting the sender, receiver, and amount than Zcash had in its 3.5-year complete history. That's nearly 100x more private transactions. Bitcoin sadly isn't much better. Though these numbers aren't directly comparable to the # of Monero transactions, even generously stacking the anonymity sets of Samourai wallet mixing rounds leads to a peak of 8,690 rounds per month. Plus amounts are poorly protected (unlike XMR). You deserve REAL privacy, not promised privacy. Just use Monero. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ8HP7sswgU
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerJoin us live at the Greek Cryptocurrency Meetup featuring fluffypony, Vik Sharma of Cake Wallet, and Justin Ehrenhofer www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH3bQdW2D1U
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerThe Monero CCS proposal for the CLSAG audit is now in funding required. CLSAG promises to further reduce Monero transaction sizes and verification time. Please contribute if you are able! ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/clsag-audit-take2.html