The Monero Standard #65: 27 July 2023 - 3 Aug 2023
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
- ANONERO has announced a DIY hardware wallet solution, using two devices (one offline and one online, e.g Android phone) and QR codes for offline signing. Announcement Video
- Bi-directional Monero atomic swaps have been completed and are now available on the BasicSwap DEX. Announcement Article
- Cake Labs has announced a beta for storing Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens (e.g USDC) in Cake Wallet. Announcement
- BusyBoredom has updated AcceptXMR to version v0.13.0. It includes burning bug mitigation fixes. Release
- Version v1.7.17 of Stack Wallet has been released by rehrar. It includes MacOS support, new features, and bug fixes. Release
- Version v0.8.0 of the monero-java library has been released by woodser. It includes new features and breaking changes. Release
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $2.92 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,312,952 XMR |
| Price | $159.25, 2.25% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $180.57 |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 2,942,953 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.01068 XMR ($97.50) |
| Inflation | 0.86% |
| Hashrate | 2.382 Ghash/s +6.43% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 5.1% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
Linux Monero GUI wallet tutorial for beginners (simple mode).
Merchants
For lists of merchants and businesses related to Monero, consider Monerica, XMR.directory, official website's 'merchants' page and prior issues of this magazine.
Notable Projects
Funding
CCS
Ideas:
- selsta - selsta part-time monero development (3 months)
- kayabaNerve - Add retroactive funding proposal for FCMPs
- recanman - recanman bitejo rewrite and expansion proposal
- [to be closed] C0mradeBlin - XMR Business Wallet Development
- [to be closed] msvblab - Serving Defcon 31 (2023)
- [to be closed] Titus - Glitter Finance Cross-Chain Privacy Infrastructure with Monero
Funding Required:
- j-berman full-time 3 months (part 5) (216 / 216 XMR)
- Continued Feather Wallet development (3 months) (146 / 146 XMR)
Meme of the Week
They may be bigger, but they cannot stop us!
Study Time
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:
85nWjAPTJWo5gmEKtQbaSmL3FJDriAsAcC9knbEMuNNo4pTb6wJxwTsiXyFoYo14khRd8rF1KbHPCTTbAa1dXKL58jt6YiG
Thank you!
Contact Me
Found anything worth noting? Want to send something to be included in the next issue? Want to chat about something?
You can contact me on Matrix. Be aware that Matrix is centralized due to the fact that most people make an account on Matrix.org operated by the Matrix Foundation - That's a lot of metadata controlled unjust by just one entity.