Monero development, privacy upgrades, and regulatory scrutiny (2014–2021)

1. Monero launches as Bitmonero fork

   Apr 18, 2014Labels: Monero, BitMonero

   • Monero Roadmap
   • Monero SE

2. Network recovers from early spam attack

   Sep 1, 2014Labels: Monero, spam-attack

   • Monero Roadmap

3. Hydrogen Helix release modernizes core software

   Jan 1, 2016Labels: Hydrogen Helix, Monero core

   • GetMonero Blog
   • Monero Roadmap

4. Hard fork requires minimum ring size of 3

   Mar 22, 2016Labels: Monero hard, ring size

   • Monero Roadmap
   • CoinExplorers

5. RingCT becomes available on Monero mainnet

   Jan 5, 2017Labels: RingCT, Monero mainnet

   • Monero Roadmap
   • CoinExplorers

6. Hard fork makes RingCT mandatory and raises ringsize

   Sep 16, 2017Labels: Monero hard, RingCT

   • GetMonero Blog
   • Monero Roadmap

7. Protocol upgrade raises minimum ring size to 7

   Apr 6, 2018Labels: Monero upgrade, Proof-of-Work

   • GetMonero Blog
   • CoinExplorers

8. Beryllium Bullet upgrade enables Bulletproofs and ringsize 11

   Oct 18, 2018Labels: Beryllium Bullet, Bulletproofs

   • GetMonero Blog
   • CoinExplorers

9. Boron Butterfly hard fork updates PoW and transaction format

   Mar 9, 2019Labels: Boron Butterfly, Proof-of-Work

   • CoinExplorers
   • GetMonero Blog

10. RandomX upgrade adopts new long-term mining algorithm

    Nov 30, 2019Labels: RandomX, Monero upgrade

    • GetMonero Blog

11. Oxygen Orion release adds CLSAG support ahead of network upgrade

    Sep 17, 2020Labels: Oxygen Orion, CLSAG

    • GetMonero Blog

12. Bittrex Global delists Monero amid compliance pressure

    Jan 15, 2021Labels: Bittrex Global, exchange-delisting

    • Bittrex Global
    • Decrypt