Strong developments with the Hardware wallet, ring size reduction, ASIC resistance, privacy and a renewed interest among investors and even banks in privacy oriented technologies.
Litecoin Partnership
The lead developer of the Monero’s development team tweeted on January 26 about his excitement for the possible partnership with Litecoin.
This would create the ability to do on-chain atomic swaps of LTC and XMR. Currently, traders need to first sell their coin for Ethereum or Bitcoin and THEN purchase either LTC or XMR. On-chain atomic...