The Monero Standard #66: 3 Aug 2023 - 10 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
- Versions v4.8.0 of Cake Wallet and version v1.5.0 of the Monero.com wallets have been released. It includes Monero background syncing, bug fixes, and many new features. Ethereum and support for ERC-20 tokens have also left the beta, and are now fully supported. Announcement Release
- There will be a Monero meetup happening in Budapest, Hungary, on Saturday, August 19th at 1400 local time. Tickets are free. Announcement Signup
- Samourai Wallet's developer announced that their implementation of BTC<>XMR atomic swaps is "coming soon-ish", causing a Twitter outrage by Bitcoin maximalists. Article
- Version v0.0.9 of the Haveno decentralized exchange has been released. It includes bug fixes, stability improvements, and documentation improvements. Release
- xmr-btc-swap version v0.12.2 has been released. It includes a new feature. Release
- The next Monero Policy Working Group meeting has been scheduled for August 22, 2023 at 1600 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #monero-policy channel.
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $2.84 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,316,558 XMR |
| Price | $155.03, 3.16% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $165.89 |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 2,948,963 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.01414 XMR ($95.15) |
| Inflation | 0.9% |
| Hashrate | 2.098 Ghash/s -24.9% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 4.8% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
A quick-start guide for mining Monero on P2Pool.
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
Run a Monero node on Android using Termux using android-termux-monero-node
Funding
CCS
Ideas:
- Boog9001 - Boog900 full time work on Cuprate, the Rust Monero node (2 months)
- selsta - selsta part-time monero development (3 months)
- kayabaNerve - Add retroactive funding proposal for FCMPs
- [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:
None.
Meme of the Week
Dynamic block sizes are great!
Study Time
Digital Euro, World Coin, Howard Chu is suspended, CBDCs & more!
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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