The Monero Standard #75: 5 Sept 2023 - 12 Oct 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
- Version v0.18.3.1 of Monero has been released. Release
- Trocador.app has added automatic rate adjustment, 650+ new tokens, and more features in anticipation for its 1st anniversary. Announcement Website
- OrangeFren, in partnership with FixedFloat, is organizing two meetups in celebration of Halloween. The first one will be in Andorra. The second one will be in Barcelona. Announcement
- Monero.vegas, a Monero casino, has left beta, and has made some improvements. Announcement Website
- Café Monero, a Spanish-spoken Monero podcast, has released its first episode. Announcement Video
- AllArk has released AllArk Store, a marketplace for retail products. It is offering discounts when using Monero. Announcement Website
- Cake Wallet and Monero.com wallets have been updated to versions v4.10.0 and v1.7.0. It includes new features, bug fixes and enhancements. Release
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $2.81 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,343,602 XMR |
| Price | $153.56, 2.5% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $177.96 |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 2,994,037 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.01036 XMR ($93.60) |
| Inflation | 0.82% |
| Hashrate | 3.081 Ghash/s +4.07% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 8.5% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
How to prove a Monero payment was made.
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:
- kayabaNerve - Core Monero Concepts
- binarybaron2 - XMR BTC Atomic Swaps Desktop GUI - Continued development for 6 months
- dangerousfreedom - wallet work
- kayabaNerve - Add retroactive funding proposal for FCMPs
- [to be closed] C0mradeBlin - XMR Business Wallet Development
Funding Required:
Meme of the Week
Privacy, it's important!
Study Time
DDoS protection for XMR nodes (DEV EPI #136)
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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