Here's some fun early Monero history - in 2014 / 2015 there weren't a lot of donations to cover Monero costs, so core contributors would pay for them out of pocket. We tracked all of this on a spreadsheet (that we still have) because we figured one day we'd be able to get it back from the dev fund - although we never ended up doing that😅 In total I spent well over $100k on Monero development until the FFS and donations made it more self-sufficient towards the end of 2015. What did this pay for? It included things like making Monero work on Windows (via msys2 / mingw), building out the entire FFS (which eventually became the CCS), all the work on the first GUI, lots of early cryptography work, all the initial embedded DB work (Monero loaded the entire blockchain into RAM until the beginning of 2015!), the work on MRL-0001 / MRL-0004 / MRL-0005, and Monero's 0MQ integration. Monero is only where it is today because of the sacrifices and early financial contributions of people like othe, NoodleDoodle, as well as the tireless (and unpaid!) efforts of people like smooth, David Latapie, moneromooo, WarpTangent, luigi1111, binaryFate, and countless others I've failed to mention.

To put to bed the claim that a Monero viewkey that allows you to see that funds have left the wallet is a new thing, not only has it been discussed at length since Monero's outset as an enhancement to the incoming-only viewkey (which, in turn, has existed since Monero's creation), but here is an open GitHub issue from 2016 with the very first concrete proposal: github.com/monero-project/mo… When Carrot goes live, this 10 year old issue can finally be closed. Sadly, my 2014 proposal to use "account" instead of "wallet" as the nomenclature never got the same traction: github.com/monero-project/mo… Oh well🙃

We're celebrating our 11th birthday today! 🎉 A happy Moneroversary to all, may your life be full of privacy and to many more years of Monero being the cryptocurrency that keeps your transactions and holdings private and secure!

I posted a #Monero General Fund transparency report: reddit.com/r/Monero/comments… Can your project thrive without founders, premine, foundation, entity incorporated anywhere? Blossom for 11 years with only volunteers and anonymous donations? Feeling alone but happpy in MoneroLand! :)

🗓️Save the date: MoneroKon will be held 20th - 22nd June 2O25 at @secondculturecz (previously known as @Paralelni_polis). Sign up to our mailing list to be notified when tickets go on sale: monerokon.org @monero #monero $xmr

How Chainalysis Made Their Way into Popular Monero Wallets digilol.net/blog/chainanalys…

If you're a freelancer or contractor regularly invoicing EU/UK/US companies and you want to get paid in crypto, this is the simplest way. You don't need to convince the companies paying you. In fact these companies may not even know that any crypto is involved.

At first glance, looks outstanding. Great job.

Open call for volunteers. #MoneroKon is a voluntary association of freedom-loving individuals united for the common purpose of protecting the human’s natural right to think, speak, and transact privately /w use of advanced cryptography. Come join us, volunteer.monerokon.org

I've just published the latest #Monero General Fund transparency report (up to March 1st 2023): reddit.com/r/Monero/comments…

Here's a random reminder that #Monero actually has a solid enterprise alliance since many years mea.business/

Currently fixing some issues with the #Monero Community Crowdfunding System (CCS) wallet. Donations should be correctly reflected again shortly. ccs.getmonero.org/funding-re…

#Bitcoin finally has a realistic shot at fungibility! Just encode raw #Monero transactions inside Bitcoin ones

EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems: The proposed Chat control EU law will not only seize totalitarian control of all private communication. It will also ban open source operating systems as an unintended consequence. mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/2/1…

Following up on this: should be all good now, and everything back up. Thank you for your patience! #Monero

Currently upgrading the main #Monero web server (getmonero.org, ccs, lab...). Website should be accessible anyway via CDN. If you have any issue, please be patient, should be all back to normal again asap.