Monero Talk

OSTIF Founder Derek Zimmer on the RandomX audits and what OSTIF does

July 24th, 2019  |  36 mins 30 secs

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Derek Zimmer the founder of the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund explains what the OSTIF is, the role they are playing in the RandomX audits, the Monero audits they have done in the past for bulletproofs, and why they work on the open source project Monero.

RandomX Progress with Howard Chu and Sam Williams of Arweave

June 5th, 2019  |  48 mins 40 secs

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We discuss the progress that has been made on RandomX, the audit stage, the game-plan for the implementing it in the fall, and why Arweave teamed-up to fund the the audit.
@hyc_symas
@samecwilliams of @arweaveteam

RandomX by October with Howard Chu, Tevador and Needmoney90

March 27th, 2019  |  55 mins 29 secs

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@hyc_symas -- the creator of RandomJS (the genesis of RandomX)
Tevador -- the lead developer of RandomX
Needmoney90 -- Monero Reddit moderator and all things Monero expert.

We discuss what transpired during the recent IRC developers meeting on a Proof of Work plan of action for Monero. Particularly, we discuss the communities goal of implementing RandomX in October (if an audit is successfully completed by then) and what the following steps will be if RandomX does not successfully thwart Asics -- switching to SHA-3 or another egalitarian proof of work. All-in-all it is exciting times as we watch the developers reach consensus on a plan of action to uphold one of Monero's tenants -- maintaining a decentralized mining network.

I also gave Howard, NeedMoney90, and Tevador and opportunity to respond to the Kristy Leigh Minehan interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZF4BqIDrk