Recently, the option to trade and withdraw (!!!) Monero was suddenly gone for about a day without a word from them on what is going on. I would stay away.

Oh right, sorry. You need a whole damn lab setup that combines the Foss one with another Foss tts. Tutorial, shouldn’t take too much compute, the more tricky part is getting the right voice model. I’d recommend a gawr gura one ;)

for FOSS: https://github.com/voicepaw/so-vits-svc-fork alternatively https://elevenlabs.io/

This is currently being looked into.

Could be but I don’t think so. We have seen increased transactions around summertime before, imo it’s people buying stuff to use during summer vacation.

There’s also the fact that more and more xmr transactions move away from binance-like-CEX to instant swappers. Oh and of course, the binance delisting was officially concluded 2 days ago and it was the last chance for people to withdraw their coins.

This is an interesting proposal. From what I have heard, core doesn’t do all that much these days besides getting blamed when something goes wrong. Splitting up their responsibilities and decentralizing them sounds like a good option for Moneros future.