The Monero Standard #42: 15 February 2023 - 22 February 2023
Table of Contents
- MoneroTopia23
- Recent News
- Price and Blockchain Statistics
- Facts or Guides
- Merchants
- Notable Projects
- Funding
- Meme of the Week
- Study Time
- Donation and Contact
MoneroTopia23 - el dinero de la gente - the people’s money
All day May 6 and 7 plus a welcome Cinco de Mayo party the evening of May 5th.
In Mexico City at an outdoor community center and garden run by artists and activists
Includes talks from Monero devs and contributors, other privacy tech projects, cypherpunks, agorists, and free speech advocates.
Also includes a “privacy-tech” loft where you can learn about other privacy-tech projects from their representatives plus attend workshops and an “adoption alley” section showcasing the projects and CO’s that accept Monero and are providing services that are making it easier to use and live off of Monero. Workshops include Monero 101 for noobs to get their first Monero and learn best practices, an advanced workshop for people that want to learn how to contribute to Monero’s network by running a full node and mining with P2Pool, a general privacy-tech best practices workshop, and a workshop on how to use the internet anonymously from the NYM project.
Finally, integrated into the conference will be a Monero accepting marketplace run by local Mexico City vendors. So attendees can practice living off of Monero.
Goal of the conference overall is to network with like-minded freedom seekers who want to participate in building-out a true digital cash parallel economy outside of State control. This is not a number go up maxi fest.
Tickets are super cheap to make the conference as accessible as possible. $99 for General admission which includes access to all 3 days of events. And a VIP ticket which will keep going up in price b/c it includes a dinner with the speakers where seating is limited. Plus a super cheap General Admission ticket for locals, for $25 or 500 pesos, so anyone with an interest in these ideas that is local can join.
Go to MoneroTopia.com to purchase tickets and use promo code localmonero to get 20% off.
Recent News
- The Monero ATM project has finished funding. It may possibly be available for use at MoneroKon 2023. Website
- The next Monero Research Lab meeting has been scheduled for March 1, 2023 at 1700 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #monero-research-lab channel.
- The next Monero Community Workgroup meeting has been scheduled for February 25, 2023 at 1600 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #monero-community channel.
- The next Seraphis Wallet Workgroup meeting has been scheduled for February 27, 2023 at 1800 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #no-wallet-left-behind channel.
- The next MoneroKon 2023 meeting has been scheduled for February 25, 2023 at 1800 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #monero-events channel.
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $2.88 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,243,996 XMR |
| Price | $157.76, 4.61% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $166.95 |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 2,828,025 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.00887 XMR ($96.06) |
| Inflation | 0.89% |
| Hashrate | 2.547 Ghash/s +4.21% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 6.1% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
How to use Monero Atomic Swaps
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
Monero Bounties is a great place to earn some XMR while helping the community.
Funding
CCS
Ideas:
- Mitchellpkt - Computational work for OSPEAD parameterization
- busyboredom - Standalone AcceptXMR
- plowsofff - Bulletproofs++ Peer Review
Funding Required:
- Help an independent film featuring Monero get to the Oscars™! (29.22 / 154 XMR)
- Continued Feather Wallet development (3 months) (133.09 / 142 XMR)
Meme of the Week
Try your best!
Study Time
Donation and Contact
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