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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerWatch today's Monero Village Grayhat stream, live now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlgMm0ugzMA
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community Organizer"Cryptographers Are Always Going to Be ‘One Step Ahead’ of Regulators: Monero’s Spagni" www.coindesk.com/spagni-fluffypony-monero-cryptographers-one-step-ahead-regulators Selected part of the article: “Untraceable cryptocurrencies such as monero are here to stay,” Dr. Tom Robinson, co-founder and chief economist at blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, told CoinDesk in an email. “In the short term, it may well be possible to find exploits in these systems and trace transactions to some degree, but these bugs will be fixed.” Over the weekend, monero implemented an upgrade codenamed “Oxygen Orion,” which includes a new ring signatures feature called compact linkable spontaneous anonymous group (CLSAG). That is expected to reduce transaction sizes by 25%, improving transaction verification times by 10% and boost security.
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerMonero's network upgrade had an issue where nodes that were not running at the time of the upgrade block got stuck on that block and were unable to sync further. Funds are NOT at risk; exchanges, mining pools, and common wallet remote nodes operated normally. However, those with out-of-sync nodes will need to upgrade to version 0.17.1.1 to catch up with the network. The Monero developer team deeply regrets that this issue occurred. Block 2210720 accidentally included 2 old-style MLSAG transactions. These transactions were accepted by nodes running at the time, but they are not accepted by nodes that were not fully synced. These transactions were otherwise valid and are not indicative of supply issues. The situation has been fixed without invalidating these 2 transactions, and all future transactions will use the new and improved CLSAG format. www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/jdp770/cli_v01711_oxygen_orion_released_fixes_block/
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerThe Monero Meet livestream is starting early in about 15 minutes! We had fast blocks today. youtu.be/Ct4JX2zjfEs
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerThe mandatory network upgrade is today! Make sure to update your nodes and wallets! Popular wallets Cake and Monerujo should update automatically. Join us for a special edition of Monero Meet during the scheduled Monero network upgrade! Starting tonight at 7pm CDT (24 UTC). youtu.be/Ct4JX2zjfEs
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerMonero 0.17.1 has been released. It is important that users update to some 0.17 version for the mandatory network upgrade on October 16 (blocks have been coming faster than normal). We recommend using 0.17.1 since it includes transaction broadcast improvements. www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/jb0vo9/cli_gui_v01710_oxygen_orion_released/ As a reminder, 0.17 includes the faster, smaller, and cheaper CLSAG ring signatures.
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerMonero 0.17.0.1 has been released! Please update your desktop software to maintain compatibility with the October 17 network upgrade. Transactions are about to get smaller and faster. GUI version: www.getmonero.org/2020/10/05/monero-GUI-0.17.0.1-released.html CLI version: www.getmonero.org/2020/09/27/monero-0.17.0.1-released.html
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerMonero Meet 2020-09-19 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpaCH8e0N0o We discuss the Monero 0.17 release, the Perkins Coie "privacy coin" whitepaper, and other compliance topics. Dr. Daniel Kim discusses Monero: Sound Money, Safe Mode. Is Monero the most prestigious coin? Participants: Justin Ehrenhofer, tallest man, Dr. Daniel Kim, needmoney90, Vik Sharma, ArticMine
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerMonero 0.17.0.0 "Oxygen Orion" released (CLI version) This major release is due to the October 17th network upgrade, which in turn adds support for the CLSAG transaction format which improves verification speed and reduces transaction size. GUI release coming shortly. getmonero.org/2020/09/17/monero-0.17-released.html
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Justin Ehrenhofer, Community OrganizerThe long-awaited Perkins Coie whitepaper is now available! "Anti-Money Laundering Regulation of Privacy-Enabling Cryptocurrencies" www.perkinscoie.com/en/news-insights/anti-money-laundering-regulation-of-privacy-enabling-cryptocurrencies.html This 40 page report is the most comprehensive to-date on compliance and "privacy coins." They conclude with the following: "Allowing VASPs to support privacy tokens under current, tested AML regulations strikes the appropriate policy balance between preventing money laundering and allowing beneficial, privacy-preserving technology to develop."