The Monero Standard #84: 7 Dec 2023 - 14 Dec 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
- Feather Wallet has been updated to version v2.6.0. It includes a major update with offline transaction signing, core library upgrades, bug fixes, and more. Announcement Release
- Monerujo Wallet has been updated to version v3.3.10. It includes a core library upgrade and an improvement. Announcement Release
- The Monero Konferenco 2024, or MoneroKon24 for short, is an annual meeting of privacy advocates, cypherpunks, scientists, and philosophers, is in need of funding! It is about 21% of the way there. Funding
- Version v0.0.16 of the Haveno exchange has been released. It includes new features, bug fixes, and more. Release
- MyMonero is hosting a Monero meetup in Cape Town, South Africa on December 22, 2023. Meetup
- The next MoneroKon 2024 Planning meeting has been scheduled for December 16, 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 | $3.08 billion |
| Total Supply | 18,370,748 XMR |
| Price | $168.61, 3.37% in 7 days |
| LocalMonero's Street Price | $183.31 |
| Suggested Transaction Fee | 20 piconero per byte |
| Block Height | 3,039,281 |
| Block Reward | 0.6000+0.01325 XMR ($102.68) |
| Inflation | 0.86% |
| Hashrate | 2.334 Ghash/s +2.07% in 24 hours |
| Transaction Ratio to Bitcoin | 4.6% |
Price Chart
Hashrate Distribution
Facts or Guides
How to accept Monero (XMR) as a merchant
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
MoneroDevs.org is a website that lists Monero-related projects.
Funding
CCS
Ideas:
- j-berman full-time 3 months (part 6)
- 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
High!
Study Time
Outcompeting the surveillance state with privacy tech w/François-Xavier Wicht /EPI #292
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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