The Monero Standard #22: 27 July 2022 - 4 August 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
- Alex from LocalMonero was interviewed by The Hated One about "cryptocurrency and corrupted YouTubers", see the interview here.
- MineXMR.com, the controversial pool due to recent centralization concerns, is set to shut down on August 12th (one day before the hardfork). They recommended p2pool as an alternative to the pool's miners.
- MoneroMarket.io, an ebay-like website with escrow and XMR got launched.
- Monero blockchain has had the most busy month in July confirming transactions, with a new all-time high of ~963K.
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $2.935 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,156,481 XMR |
| Price | $161.67, 0.42% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $164.69 |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 4 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 2,682,166 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.00451 XMR ($97.73) |
| Inflation | 0.89% |
| Hashrate | 2.463 Ghash/s +7.01% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 11.3% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
- None for this issue. Consider prior ones.
Merchants
For lists of merchants and businesses related to Monero, consider Monerica, official website's 'merchants' page and prior issues of this magazine.
Notable Projects
- 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.
- 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 have had the pleasure to use their arts because we're too lazy. :)
- 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.
- p2pool-report, a script helping you generate P2Pool mining revenue reports
Funding
CCS
Ideas:
- selsta part-time monero development (3 months)
- The-Monero-Moon-CCS-Proposal-August2022-John-Foss
- monero-bash continued development (3 months)
- v1docq47 - video creation and translations into russian (august 2022 - january 2023)
- MoneroSigner. Fork of seedsigner for Monero
- Translation of Monero GUI Wallet, CLI Wallet, monero-site, Behavioral Finance, Cryptocurrency Markets (subtitles), Moneropedia, User Guides to Greek
Funding Required:
- N/A
Meme of the Week
Study Time
The R Word: GDP Shrinks Again as Biden Quibbles over the Definition of "Recession" by Mises.org
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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