Software Update: Monero 0.16.0.0

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, in whatever form, have now become an integral part of the news. The founder of the technique and at the same time the best-known application is Bitcoin, and since it is open source, numerous so-called altcoins have appeared. In early 2014, Bytecoin appeared based on the CryptoNote protocol, which was completely different. Due to the mystery of Bytecoin’s background and the estimate that it was already more than eighty percent mined, a group of developers soon started using Bitmonero as a fork, which in turn was released at the end of April 2014. forked to the current Monero, due to disagreements among the developers. The network consists of numerous nodes running the Monero client. An update has been released with version number 0.16.0.0, with the following announcement:

CLI v0.16.0.0 ‘Nitrogen Nebula’ released!

This is the CLI v0.16.0.0 ‘Nitrogen Nebula’ major release. This release features Dandelion++, major Bulletproofs verification performance optimizations, as well as bug fixes and performance improvements. You can find a full change log here.

Some highlights of this release are:

• Bulletproofs: improve verification speed
• Daemon: add Dandelion++ support
• Daemon: speedup startup in some cases
• Daemon: reduce bandwidth by up to 2/3rd
• Daemon: improve auto bootstrap algorithm
• Daemon: faster fetching of consecutive transactions
• Daemon: print estimates for time until fully synced
• Ledger: improve error messages
• Wallet: new “address one-off” command
• Wallet: new “sweep_account” command
• ZMQ: improved support and bug fixes
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

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