• They're dropping Civitai because of the salacious material being sold on the site
• Perfect XMR use case?
• Will we see a sudden spike in demand for XMR?
• Anyone know how much money Civitai is taking in from users (not capital investors)?
• Every day we're seeing more and more need for unstoppable, uncensorable, sound money!

When checking in other instances, like lemmy.zip, we can see that monero.town has federation problems. Not all posts are shown (very few).

This is a big problem for the fediverse. My instance admin told me that they contacted the monero.town admin about it but didn’t receive any answer. Monero.town runs an old version of lemmy as well

I’m wondering if we should create a new Monero community on another instance that properly federates. It would bring a lot.

Hab ein Video für Einsteiger gemacht. Wenn ihr jemand onboarden wollt aber nicht die Zeit habt es selbst zu machen, schickt den Leuten dieses Video

Combining a finite supply, anti-inflationary mechanisms, and military-grade encryption strategies positions Monero as exceptional in current inflationary monetary conditions.

Monero demonstrates rising recognition based on its recent market activities.

https://www.finance-monthly.com/2025/05/xmr-vs-the-dollar-can-a-ghost-coin-outrun-inflation-in-2025/

I've been noticing some delays with Monero (XMR) transactions lately. Confirmations seem to be taking longer than usual. Is anyone else experiencing this? Any insights or updates would be appreciated. Stay safe.

I was inspired by this post to try to think in XMR instead of United States Dollar or any other fiat currency.

This user script will detect anything that looks like $XX.XX from web pages, and send it to the coinmarketcap api to lookup the current XMR price.

Privacy beware

You are sending any dollar value that appears in your browser to Coin Market Cap including values that might appear in your banking websites. If you don't want Coin Market Cap to know how much you have in the bank, then edit the script to only work on white listed websites or blacklist certain websites.

Be careful with using user scripts, do not trust me or anyone else that tells you to paste some code in a user script on your browser. Please read the source code, it isn't that long.

How to install

1. Install a user script extension such as Violent Monkey
2. Click the Violent Monkey button
3. New Script
4. Paste the code from the gist
5. Get a coinmarketcap api and paste it on the appropriate line
6. Save and close

Dollar values will now appear as XMR values!

Gold, Bitcoin, and Monero with NorthStar | Tune-in to a LIVE MoneroTalk episode Tomorrow 05/13 at 7:00AM-EDT!

Watch here on X or on YT➡️: https://www.youtube.com/live/P82WBWCu3p0 TWITCH ➡️: twitch.tv/monerotalk Now streaming on Rumble!➡️: rumble.com/user/monerotalk

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New research paper about HavenoDex shows trades between Monero and Bitcoin are traceable.

Abstract:

...We further identify and report on a privacy vulnerability in the recently popularized Haveno exchange, demonstrating that certain Haveno trades could be detected, allowing transactions to be linked across the Monero and Bitcoin blockchains.

Tari Mainnet is Live! (MT 350)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW:Douglas Tuman has a discussion about Tari, a new blockchain project, with the founders Naveen and Ricardo (@FluffyPony). The conversation covers multiple aspects of the project's development and launch. Naveen emphasizes Tari's unique features, including its accessibility and user-friendly interface through Tari Universe. He explained that Tari offers default confidentiality powered by a minimal implementation, making it different from other protocols like Ethereum or Solana. Ricardo detailed the technical aspects of Tari's privacy features, comparing them to Monero but noting that Tari's privacy model is intentionally different. Both founders highlighted the relationship with Monero, explaining that Tari's merge mining feature has already contributed to increasing Monero's hash rate to an all-time high. They emphasized that Tari is not competing with Monero but rather complementing it in the ecosystem.

Watch Here (YouTube)➡️ https://youtube.com/live/E1nc3b5c7NE Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-350

Coffee & Monero, Go to Gratuitas.org today!

FOLLOW US https://monero.town/u/monerotalk & https://mastodon.social/@monerotalk

Thank you to sponsors, u/cakelabs and u/Stealthex_io as well as u/sunchakr for making these interviews possible! And of course our listeners and supporters for making Monero Talk possible!

Podcasts 🎧 :

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cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/6007844

⚠️ supportxmr.com down ⚠️ that's serious

also on miningpoolstats 😱

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/6006148

No worries about this one being flooded because most will not be able to figure out how to join 😅

Who sells monero for physical cash?

Tari Mainnet is Live! | Tune-in to a LIVE MoneroTalk episode TODAY 05/07 at 7:00AM-EDT!

With: @tari, @fluffypony, @naveenspark

Watch here on X or on YT➡️: https://www.youtube.com/live/E1nc3b5c7NE TWITCH ➡️: twitch.tv/monerotalk Now streaming on Rumble!➡️: rumble.com/user/monerotalk

Thank you to our show sponsors cakewallet.com / stealthex.io /

The Monero community is excited to announce the launch of the FCMP++ (Full-Chain Membership Proofs) Optimization Coding Competition!

See all contest details here.

What is FCMP++?

FCMP++ is one of the most significant privacy enhancements to Monero since its inception. This upgrade would improve sender-privacy from 1 in 16 to 1 in over 150 million while maintaining compatibility with existing wallets and addresses!

About the Competition

We're looking to optimize the performance of two critical libraries used in FCMP++ (helioselene and ec-divisors). This is your chance to make a direct contribution to Monero's future while competing for 350xmr (~$100,000 at time of writing) in rewards and global recognition.

Competition Details

• Timeline: Competition runs from April 28th to June 30th, 2025
• Focus Area: elliptic curve arithmetic
• Submission Requirements: detailed here
• Judging Criteria: Speed improvement, code quality, and maintainability

How to Enter

1. Review the competition details and rules at: https://github.com/j-berman/fcmp-plus-plus-optimization-competition
2. Clone the repository and familiarize yourself with the codebase
3. Submit your optimized implementation according to the guidelines in the README

Resources

• Official Competition GitHub: https://github.com/j-berman/fcmp-plus-plus-optimization-competition
• Competition Blog Post: https://www.getmonero.org/2025/04/05/fcmp++-contest.html
• FCMP++ Technical Background: https://www.getmonero.org/2024/04/27/fcmps.html

Join us in shaping the future of financial privacy!

Questions? Join #monero-dev on matrix or irc or reach out through the competition GitHub repository.

XMR p2pool-mini meets XTM Tari

• 20 MH/s - May 5th, 2025
• 77 MH/s - May 6th, 2025

https://tari.com/

https://p2pool.io/mini/#pool

Live Stream of the NYC Privacy Meetup at Pubkey (MT 349)

TODAY'S 🎙SHOW:Douglas Tuman was live at Pubkey, a bitcoin focused bar, in New York City. The conversation covers many wallet related topics, including overviews of new wallets and new wallet privacy features. Hear an extensive presentation on Ashigaru wallet, a fork of Samurai wallet, that gives instructions on wallet setup, the use of Tor, and security verification processes. Tuxsudo from Cake Wallet presented on privacy features, particularly focusing on silent payments and pay-join functionality. They explained how silent payments work to generate unique addresses for each transaction, improving privacy on the Bitcoin network. Doug discussed XMR Bazaar, a Monero-based marketplace platform. He explained how the platform facilitates peer-to-peer trading using Monero, with features like multisig escrow and reputation systems.

Watch Here (YouTube)➡️ https://youtube.com/live/wxNdkGHGJEA

Listen Here 🎧: https://www.monerotalk.live/monerotalk-349

Coffee & Monero, Go to Gratuitas.org today!

FOLLOW US https://monero.town/u/monerotalk & https://mastodon.social/@monerotalk

Thank you to sponsors, u/cakelabs and u/Stealthex_io as well as u/sunchakr for making these interviews possible! And of course our listeners and supporters for making Monero Talk possible!

Podcasts 🎧 :

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If you enjoy our show please Subscribe, Like, Share, Rate our YouTube Channel & Podcasts. This will help us grow and spread Monero content!

Hey everyone! It’s been a huge month for us at CypherGoat. Since our public launch in March, we’ve been moving fast and April was no exception. Here’s what we’ve been up to:

• We're now open source!
  Both our main WebUI and JS-free source code is now available on our github https://github.com/CypherGoat

• $1 Million in volume
  We crossed the $1 million mark in volume, in our second month since launch! While it may not sound like much its a huge achievement for us.

• We launched a tor hidden service
  Privacy is at the core of what we do. You can now access CypherGoat via our official Tor .onion service
  http://cyphergmw4huw7jzhat3misfm5jj2m4nvafockqbj7i5rrlec6mobdid.onion/

• New Blog content
  In April we published 3 new articles on our blog
  https://cyphergoat.com/blog/

From a development standpoint we integrated with two new exchanges (BitcoinvVN, swapuz), completely redesigned our webui, as well as listed more than 20 new coins.

To celebrate these achievements we are running a $100 XMR giveaway on twitter:

Join the giveaway here

We are extremely grateful for the support we have gotten so far from this great community and can't wait to see what is next in this amazing journey!

The regulation is part of a broader AML framework that includes bank and payment accounts, passbooks and safe-deposit boxes, “crypto-asset accounts allowing anonymisation of transactions,” and “accounts using anonymity-enhancing coins.”

So recently btcecho did a video on monero when the price jumped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUOWXEb0AYw

IMO there were some things wrong that I could not let stand like this. So I made an episode of my podcast about it.

Check it out!

ITS ALL IN GERMAN - SORRY

Live Stream of the NYC Privacy Meetup at Pubkey! | Tune-in to a LIVE MoneroTalk episode TONIGHT 05/01 at 7:00PM-EDT!

With: #ashigaru, RetoSwap, OrangeFren.com, Bisq, Nym, Xmrbazaar, Cake Wallet

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X @zachxbt zachxbt/status/1917535854085497185

Update: It is confirmed to be a social engineering theft from an elderly individual in the US.

X @zachxbt zachxbt/status/1916756932763046273

Nine hours ago a suspicious transfer was made from a potential victim for 3520 BTC ($330.7M)

Theft address

bc1qcrypchnrdx87jnal5e5m849fw460t4gk7vz55g

Shortly after the funds began to be laundered via 6+ instant exchanges and was swapped for XMR causing the XMR price to spike 50%

Julkaistu 24.01.2024 🤦‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️ https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/vastaamo-jutussa-iso-paljastus-krp-jaljitti-jaljittamattomana-pidettya-kryptovaluuttaa/8864046

According to Binance, the funds received in the account were exchanged from Monero back into Bitcoins. According to the KRP report, most of the funds were again transferred onwards, this time in two different directions.

Binancen mukaan tilille tulleet varat vaihdettiin Moneroista takaisin Bitcoineiksi. KRP:n selvityksen mukaan suurin osa niistä siirrettiin jälleen eteenpäin, tällä kertaa kahteen eri suuntaan.

Another path followed by the KRP led police from Binance to an online service that promises to exchange virtual currency for cash instantly.

Toinen KRP:n seuraamista poluista johti poliisin Binancesta erääseen verkossa toimivaan palveluun, joka lupaa vaihtaa virtuaalivaluuttaa rahaksi välittömästi.

The dates of the transfers also coincided perfectly with the payments traced by the KRP.

Siirtojen ajankohdat myös menivät täydellisesti yksiin KRP:n jäljittämien maksujen kanssa.

Just a little post to discuss about it

+25% in a matter of hours, pretty nice

It seems that the project has been archived. I found a fork that is 19 commits ahead but it doesn't seem very active.

is it safe to use the old version? should i use the fork? are their alternatives that i should be using instead?

My goal is to be able to query and interact with the blockchain in a pythonic way.