The Monero Standard #18: 29 June 2022 - 6 July 2022
Table of Contents
- Recent News
- Price and Blockchain Statistics
- Facts or Guides
- Merchants
- Notable Projects
- Funding
- Meme of the Week
- Study Time
- Donation and Contact
Recent News
- Riccardo "Fluffypony" Spagni, former Monero maintainer, extradited to South Africa facing 378 charges related to allegations of fraud and forgery, a report by CoinTelegraph. Reports say all this allegations have nothing to do with Spagni's relation to Monero.
- Episode 520 of What Bitcoin Did podcast featuring Seth for Privacy called "Privacy on Monero vs Bitcoin" has been released.
- Particl Project announced the launch of the BasicSwap DEX in its beta phase. In BasicSwap you can swap BTC, LTC, XMR and Particl's native token (PART) trustlessly and privately.
- Monero v15 hard-fork reschedueled for August 13th.
- P2Pool v2.2 with support for the next hard-fork is out.
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $2.301 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,144,268 XMR |
| Price | $126.86, 6.88% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $131.40 |
| Average Transaction Fee | 0.00024 XMR ($0.031) |
| Block Height | 2,661,811 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.01065 XMR ($77.47) |
| Inflation | 0.91% |
| Hashrate | 2.93 Ghash/s -4.46% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 12.2% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
Monero Observer's Blacklist Directory
Monero Observer is one of the best websites for people who enjoy the freedom of using Monero with up-to-date news and other useful resources. Recently they've launched a blacklist directory for suspicious/malicious projects which users should avoid. It's a wikipedia-type system you can edit/suggest to. For more information take a look at the original report of them introducing it.
Merchants
The Masternetwork
The Masternetwork is a platform that connects computing power with developers in exchange for cryptocurrency. While you're not using your server supporting virtualization, or a raspberry pi, you can make it available to the platform. Thus, depending on the demand, your server will be able to run virtual machines for others, and you will receive cryptocurrencies (currently XMR) according to the computing power used.
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.
- Help test the upcoming major Monero release for bugs
- 2 XMR bounty for restoring "Funds" tab of BISQ legacy UI to Haveno
- Skilled Flutter developers with previous C++/Rust and REST API experience
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:
- Procure and distribute Monero merchandise at Defcon 30
- Serve Monero visitors at Defcon 30
- Add Garlix.io proposal
- MoneroSigner. Fork of seedsigner for Monero
- jeffro256: part-time dev work 2022Q3
- Moneroj.net improvements, articles and maintenance (3 months)
- 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:
- N/A
Monerujo Funding
- N/A
Meme of the Week
Study Time
TeachYourselfCrypto.com is the source I've always wanted when I started to go down this rabbit hole. You can study various resources on this website to try to tighten your knowledge about cryptocurrencies or even better, introduce this resource to new-comers. Project's maintainer, Harsh Strongman, announced the inclusion of Monero in the course in a Monero Talk episode that you can watch here.
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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Thank you!
Contact Me
Found anything worth noting? Want to send something to be included in the next issue? Want to chat about something?
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