The Monero Standard #33: 14 December 2022 - 21 December 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
- The next Monero Research Lab meeting has been scheduled for December 28, 2022 at 1700 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #monero-research-lab channel.
- The next MoneroKon 2023 Planning meeting has been scheduled for January 14, 2023 at 1800 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #monero-events channel.
- Farcaster Node v0.8.1 has been released by The Farcaster Project. It includes bug fixes. Release
- MoneroKon's 2023 CCS proposal has been fully funded in eight days, with 63 contributions.
- Gupax v1.0.0 has been released by hinto-janaiyo. It includes optimizations, bug fixes. Due to the project releasing version 1.0.0, it is now in maintence mode according to the CCS proposal. Release
- The Monero Magazine podcast interviewed Sethforprivacy in the first episode of the podcast. It includes discussions of a Layer 2 network, CBDCs, privacy, and more. Episode
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $2.681 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,216,745 XMR |
| Price | $146.94, 0.4% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $155.43 |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 2,782,607 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.00813 XMR ($89.50) |
| Inflation | 0.92% |
| Hashrate | 2.485 Ghash/s +0.83% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 6.7% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
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
For Monero developers, there is a list of libraries to help with development around Monero in various languages. Scroll down to "Libraries and helpers" to find it. Website
Funding
CCS
Ideas:
- nightwolf361 - Empower Lebanon(and similar hyperinflated countries) to use Monero instead of fiat(educational and bartering platform/guerilla marketing/workshops)
- xmrLovera - Create Educational Content in Spanish
- escapethe3RA - escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Winter 2022)
- plowsofff - Bulletproofs++ Peer Review
- NotMtth - CypherPunk Radio
- lescuer971 - xmr-btc-swap development and improvement
- sausagenoods - Metronero checkout
Funding Required:
Meme of the Week
"Good enough" is usually not good enough! Get better privacy with Monero.
Study Time
Monero CLI installation and setup guide on linux
Donation and Contact
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Contact Me
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