The Monero Standard #11: 27 April 2022 - 4 May 2022
Table of Contents
- Recent News
- Price and Blockchain Statistics
- Fun Facts
- Merchants
- Notable Projects
- Funding
- Meme of the Week
- Study Time
- Donation and Contact
Recent News
- Haveno team introduced in a blog post that they've changed their minds about enlisting ZEC as a launch pair. The team states it's not a promise to not enlist ZEC in the future.
- Mullvad VPN provider announced they now accept Monero as one of their payments options.
- Monero.com from Cake Labs introduced its revamped website.
- Monero v0.17.3.2 has been released with minor changes such as support for Ledger Nano S Plus.
- Coin Bureau shared a Monero yearly analyze covering past year news and characteristics of Monero.
- Ragnarly published a blog post, titled "Secret Bitcoiner Users of Monero – Come Out of The Shadows".
- What to expect and what not to expect from view tags.
- myCompass.ie, a freedom-oriented business directory, introduced a dedicated page for Monero-accepted businesses.
- Indian court ordered VPN companies to collect and hand over user data.
- P2Pool v2.0 has been released.
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $3.872 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,116,380 XMR |
| Price | $214.25 -6.63% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $231.95 |
| Average Transaction Fee | 0.000086 XMR ($0.018) |
| Block Height | 2,615,969 |
| Block Reward | 0.6301+0.00382 XMR ($135.49) |
| Inflation | 0.92% |
| Hashrate | 2.978 Ghash/s -1.11% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 10.8% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Fun Facts
Monero's blockchain is not scalable (WRONG!)
Monero's dynamic block size ensures that with every new transaction getting onboard in a block, the cheaper the fees are going to be for participants in those transaction. You can find more in-depth explanations on this manner here.
Merchants
ShopinBit
ShopinBit is the Europe's biggest online store that accepts Bitcoin and Monero with 300,000+ products.
Notable Projects
Monero
- MoneroOutreach.org has a very detailed article for newcomers and how they can help and contribute to the idea and philosophy of Monero, check them out. Also be sure to check this article in LocalMonero's Knowledge Base.
- Monero Bounties website is a well-written and up-to-date source of Monero projects.
- Reemuru submitted a CCS proposal for creation of an interactive guide for new Monero developers.
Other
- LibRedirect is a free-software extension for major browsers (currently available for Firefox and Edge in their native stores) that redirects you to privacy-preserving alternatives for many mainstream online services such as YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Wikipedia and more. Their GitHub repo is available here. Please note that Tor Browser developers advise not to install any additional extension into their browser, LibreWolf and Brave seem to be fine.
- Monero Art Fund is a community effort of artists and designers who try to provide the community with the latest gorgeous designs of MoneroChan, the anime girl becoming the mascot of Monero. If you enjoyed the art, support them by donation to help them continue. We at this newsletter had the pleasure to use their arts because we're too lazy. :)
Funding
CCS
Ideas:
- Seraphis Wallet PoC 2 funding proposal
- Monero business kit
- Patronero - Open Source project for donating by mining
- Translation of Monero GUI Wallet, CLI Wallet, monero-site, Behavioral Finance, Cryptocurrency Markets (subtitles), Moneropedia, User Guides to Greek
- Monero Afghanistan Expansion Strategy
Funding Required:
- selsta part-time monero development (3 months)
- New Animated Videos
- HotShop Point of Sale
- Funding for The Monero Moon Newsletter - 2022
Monerujo Funding
- N/A
Meme of the Week
Study Time
Get Programming with Go
Get Programming with Go by Nathan Youngman and Roger Peppe is a book for learning the basics of the Go programming language (often called "Golang"). Go is a fast and robust language with some neat features like built-in concurrency and memory garbage collection. For other resources go to Go.dev/learn.
Donation and Contact
This newsletter is one of my dedicated jobs and LocalMonero pays me for writing it, but if you've found it informative and helpful, here is my wallet address:
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Contact Me
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