Scheduled Monero Soft Fork in October, 2018
October 17th, 2018
Review of “Beryllium Bullet” release. On the 11th of October, 2018 happened the v0.13.0 release of the Monero GUI & CLI software. This release provides a variety of major improvements to Monero, as well as a large set of bug fixes. This is a major change due to the scheduled Monero’s network upgrade on the…
Monero Community Crowdfunded Audition Campaign for the Bulletproof Implementation
May 17th, 2018
On the threshold of the Bulletproof technology implementation, Monero community was polled about auditing this process. The issue is that there are many developers are working on this feeding-in, and some points could be overseen or even lost. Moreover, there might be some aspects which could be improved. For this purposes, it was decided to…
Consensus 2018 blockchain summit have started
May 14th, 2018
The fourth annual summit dedicated to the blockchain technology and cryptocurrency – Consensus 2018 – started today, 14th May 2018. For the last four years, it becomes one of the main events in the crypto world. This year the conference is organized by the leading blockchain and crypto assets media CoinDesk and features more than…
Coincheck exchange partially revived XMR transactions
May 11th, 2018
Coincheck crypto exchange, which is the part of the Monex Group and one of the most significant cryptos and financial service companies in Japan, partly restored its support for Monero (XMR). Now Coincheck users can withdraw and sell XMR through the exchange, but not purchase them. This January, Coincheck experienced one of the biggest hacks…
Boston-based “Circle Invest” startup adds support for Monero (XMR).
May 9th, 2018
Auspicious Boston FinTech startup “Circle Invest,” which is a part of the Circle Internet Financial, company backed with venture capital of the Goldman-Sachs bank, added the support of Monero (XMR). Circle Internet Financial was founded in late 2013 and started with the app Circle Pay, a peer-to-peer payments software. After five years, in March 2018…
Five ways to keep your Monero safe
May 7th, 2018
Today Monero has become one of the most popular cryptocurrencies thanks to its privacy. And with the continuously rising price for Monero coin, the community’s interest is getting higher day to day. There are dozens of mining pools and exchanges supporting Monero (XMR), but how is better to collect your coins before they are exchanged?…
MoneroV (XMV) Hard Fork Results
May 4th, 2018
Yesterday, May 3rd, hard-fork of the Monero was made. The snapshot of the network was taken at the #1564965 block. Now we all are waiting for the Mainnet release, which we hope to be very soon. After Mainnet is released, all Monero holders as of block #1564965 will also become MoneroV owners. To automatically obtain…
UNICEF Australia Will Mine Monero (XMR) For Funding Its Projects
May 3rd, 2018
UNICEF Australia will start using Coinhive to obtain donations in the form of shared computing power. Cryptocurrency mined with this power will be used to fund UNICEF projects. People could share a portion of their computing powers through in-browser mining Coinhive AuthedMine. As far as the only Coinhive-supported cryptocurrency is Monero (XMR), it’s evident that…
South African largest exchange added support of Monero coin (XMR)
May 2nd, 2018
Last friday, April 27th, one of the biggest South African exchanges – ICE³X added support of the Monero (XMR) coin. Firstly, pair XMR/BTC was added and now there is also XMR/ZAR pair, what means that exchange users can now cash out their cryptocurrency with quite good rate. For last week exchange rate for XMR/ZAR almost…
Just a few days left until MoneroV (XMV) hard fork
April 27th, 2018
There are about 3-5 days remaining till MoneroV XMV hard fork. The estimated date of the fork is April 30th, but the chain-split would take place at block #1564965, which might occur a day or two later than expected. At the moment, the hard fork timer on the MoneroV website is counting a few more…