Monero V Hard Fork Postponed

The snapshot date is postponed to April 30, block 1564965 so as to facilitate the third-party services requests

20 March 2018 699

MoneroV is a private cryptocurrency fork of the Monero blockchain. Previously we have reported about the Monero V hard fork after which all Monero holders as of block 1529810 should have become the owners of MoneroV on March 14, 2018.

However, the team of the project has reported that due to the growing demand and increasing expectations from users, trading platforms, and large mining pools, it has decided to postpone the snapshot date to April 30, block 1564965 to facilitate third-party services requests.

Monero V Hard Fork Date Postponed

New features:

Replay protection, transactions on the Monero blockchain will not be able to be replayed on the MoneroV blockchain.
MoneroV codebase is currently fully functional and tested on macOS Sierra, Windows, 64-bit and on Linux, 64-bit.
Some new procedures will be tested, including testing the time gap between the snapshot date and mainnet release, and raising the minimum ring signature, that will help mitigate an issue that was raised that the hard-fork split might reduce the effective privacy set of ring signatures – one of three private properties of the Monero & MoneroV blockchains.

Moreover, MoneroV’s source code, MoneroV GUI wallet, the MoneroV daemon will be published on Github publicly for the community to audit before released in downloadable form.

Monero Ledger

Confirmed: Ledger Hardware Wallet to Support Monero

Riccardo Spagni, a member of Monero Core Team, confirmed that Monero will be supported in Ledger hardware wallet

12 April 2018 257

In September of 2017 we have reported about GitHub page from LedgerHQ called blue-app-monero, according to which on Monday, September 4, the process of integration of Monero in Ledger and Blue Ledger Nano S has begun. Now we can certainly say that Monero will be supported in Ledger hardware wallet, as that was confirmed by Riccardo Spagni, a member of Monero Core Team.

...We have to do a bunch of work for it and it becomes painful. We've seen it with Ledger. It has taken a year to get Monero support on Ledger and that's only really coming together now. And it is because of the amount of work and effort that is needed to go into doing that.

Riccardo Spagni

Riccardo Spagni was talking about Monero and privacy on Doug Polk Podcast on April 9, 2018. The member of Monero Core Team said that Monero is already on Ledger, and there are some commits being performed to fix a couple of small issues. He stated that the official Ledger support will go live alongside the Monero 0.12.1 release. Moreover, Riccardo Spagni said some words about Trezor support, stating that Trezor team is currently working on it.

I think that Ledger has kind of blazed the way, there is a lot of stuff that Trezor can suck in from that.

Riccardo Spagni

What is more, he stated that there is a group in Monero community that is also building a hardware wallet which is based on the Trezor's schematics. We believe that it is great news for Monero community as the privacy coin will be finally officially supported on hardware wallet Ledger.