The Monero Standard #80: 9 Nov 2023 - 16 Nov 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
- MoneroKon 2024 funding has opened. Announcement Website
- Trocador.app has launched International Prepaid Cards, which allows one to exchange hundreds of cryptocurrencies for globally-accepted MasterCards. Announcement
- Version v0.8.8 of monero-java has been released. It includes improvements. Release
- The next MoneroKon 2024 Planning meeting has been scheduled for November 18, 2023 at 1700 UTC. It will take place in the Matrix/IRC-Libera chats, in the #monero-events channel.
Price and Blockchain Statistics
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Market Capitalization | $2.97 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,358,594 XMR |
| Price | $161.74, 3.76% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $176.76 |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 3,019,024 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.01022 XMR ($98.85) |
| Inflation | 0.81% |
| Hashrate | 2.304 Ghash/s +2.09% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 4.4% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
Kyun.host has published various privacy guides.
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)
- hinto - hinto-janai - full-time work on Cuprate (3 months)
- jeffro256_ - jeffro256 full-time dev 2023Q4
- v1docq47 - monerotopia 2023 (part 2) and monerokon 2023 voiceovers and working on xmr.ru
- plowsofff - CCS Coordinator
- sacatunquetun - Monero Selfhosted View-only Web Wallet (with received transaction Telegram/Email/SMS/Discord/Webhook alerts)
- erciccione - erc: ccs for getmonero and weblate
- escapethe3RA - escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (2023 Q4)
- VOSTOEMISIO - Core Monero Concepts
- dangerousfreedom - wallet work
- kayabaNerve - Add retroactive funding proposal for FCMPs
Funding Required:
None.
Meme of the Week
Once you realize, you'll never go back!
Study Time
CCS changes incoming! (NEWS EPI #141)
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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Thank you!
Contact Me
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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.