Privacy-focused altcoin Monero (XMR) will come across arguably its best-known abet pace down as the project'south pb maintainer in an upcoming reshuffle.

In a web log postal service on December. 16, representatives confirmed that Riccardo Spagni, known as fluffypony in cryptocurrency circles, will in the future serve as a backup maintainer. His replacement will be fellow programmer Snipa.

Spagni moves to backup

"Fluffypony has served the Monero projection well over its five years of existence, and he will continue to remain agile in the community equally a maintainer," the weblog mail service read. Regarding the option of Snipa as a replacement, the post added:

"Snipa is a longtime correspondent to Monero. He is best known for developing a pop slice of Monero pool software and supporting the network with well-connected nodes. He has substantial coding and auditing experience, and a want to amend Monero'due south processes."

The postal service did non requite an verbal timeframe for the changes to take identify.

V years of supreme trolling

Spagni, who has a v-twelvemonth history with the current incarnation of Monero, has go something of a celebrity in the manufacture, due mostly to his active social media participation.

In detail, Spagni'southward wry humour has earned him appreciation and scorn in equal measure, the latter often stemming from supporters of projects he chooses to criticize.

Amidst his targets in 2022 was Craig Wright, the Australian calculator scientist who claims himself to be the inventor of Bitcoin (BTC). In March, Spagni publicly called Wright a fraud every bit the latter's ongoing multibillion-dollar legal battle connected.

On a more humorous annotation, Spagni recently linked to a video of Wright alleging he kissed vocalizer Jim Morrison in the 1990s. This, he explained, contributed to his impression of Wright as a fraudster — Morrison died in 1971.