Episode Details

Welcome back to Monero Monthly, where Max and Seth dive into the past month in the world of Monero. They cover key topics, exciting updates, and questions from the community, delivering top-notch information with a touch of misfit flair.

P2P Exchanges

Mediated swaps:

• LocalMonero (may it RIP, will see if something takes it's place)
• Haveno via RetoSwap (fiat <> XMR and crypto <> XMR)
• Bisq (BTC <> XMR)
• Robosats (BTC <> XMR)
• AMMs
  • Serai (coming soonTM)

Atomic Swaps

• BasicSwap
• UnstoppableSwap
  
  

General

• Rucknium, a researcher, has released his work on statistical analysis of ring signatures in Monero
  • https://github.com/Rucknium/OSPEAD/blob/main/README.md

At current Monero ring size of 16, the theoretical minimum attack success through completely random guessing would be 1/16 = 6.25%. According to preliminary estimates, an adversary could take advantage of the divergence between the real spend age distribution and the status quo decoy distribution to achieve an attack success probability of 23.5%, on average, since the August 2022 hard fork. This corresponds to an effective ring size of 4.2. The attack success probability prior to August 2022 may be higher, but this was not measured due to time constraints.

• Monero can easily scale to Bitcoin's transaction throughput on-chain
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1iimio0/this_is_how_many_transactions_monero_can_handle/
  • Doesn't account for self-custodial Lightning transactions, of course
• Fantastic post on Monero's upcoming addressing scheme update, CARROT
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1iph8fz/more_vitamins_for_monero_with_carrot_part_1/
• Monero Core Team posts funding transparency report
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1iixgk9/monero_general_fund_transparency_report_february/
  • Explain Monero Core team!

Software updates

• Cake Wallet releases v4.23.0 and v4.23.2
  • Monero passphrase support for new and existing wallets
  • https://blog.cakewallet.com/cake-wallet-releases-improvements-to-zano-ledger-ethereum-and-more-v4-23-2-2/
  • https://blog.cakewallet.com/cake-wallet-zano-integration-and-monero-passphrases-v4-23/
• Monero v0.18.4.0 is right around the corner
  • https://monero.observer/selsta-posts-monero-v0.18.4.0-release-to-do-list/
  • https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/9758

Links From the Episode

• https://mynymbox.io/
• Monerujo update
• https://docs.cakewallet.com/

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