Issue 2: March 29 - April 4, 2019
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- Upcoming Events
- CCS Proposals
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Monero Merchant of the Week
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Donate
Recent News
Monero Core software now allows the freezing and thawing of specific outputs, which can be useful for organizations such as non-profits, and anything else that requires “due diligence”.
The Monero Outreach Workgroup released an updated Monero Quick-Facts Sheet
Quickfacts were revised on 2/1/19 and are now available in different languages.
Monero Talk on the Italian government’s testing of an online blockchain voting system built on Monero – available on YouTube
Monero is listed on Tokenomy Exchange
Supported trading pair is XMR/BTC.
Reddit user sech1 made a nonce distribution chart which spans the last six forks.
@tuurdemeester on Twitter used the Estibot tool to estimate the amount of searches cryptocurrencies are getting.
Monero is quite high on the list.
Upcoming Events
April 6, 2019 – 17:00 UTC
DefCon 27 Workgroup Meeting
April 8, 2019 – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting
April 11, 2019 – 18:00 UTC
Tini2p Dev Meeting
April 13, 2019 – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting
April 18th, 2019
Monero Birthday – 5 years old
CCS Proposals
None. All funded. :) But keep a look out for proposals in the future, or donate to the General Fund (donation address at the bottom of the Revuo).
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 1806027
Median block size: 292.97 kB
Hash rate: 290.577 MH/s
Average Tx per block: 5.76
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 4152
Block reward: 2.95 XMR
Data taken on April 4, 2019
Hashrate Pool Distribution
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $69.38
Monero (XMR) Price
| XMR to | 4/4/19 | Week | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $64.20 | +21.9% | +32.8% | -62.4% |
| EUR | €57.20 | +22.0% | +33.8% | -58.8% |
| BTC | Ƀ0.01303894 | -0.4% | +3.9% | -47.7% |
Data taken on April 4, 2019
XMR Price Graph for March 29 - April 4, 2019
Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co
Monero Merchant of the Week
Cloakvpn.com is an VPN service using the OpenVPN protocol. CloakVPN encrypts your internet traffic and cloaks your actual location. CloakVPN accepts Monero and provisions users directly off the blockchain payments without needing any user information.Check back next week for another merchant that accepts Monero for their goods and services.
Volunteer Opportunities
If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.
Anyone with moderate technical ability is encouraged to try to build and run Monero nightlies. Do not trust it with your Monero, but feel free to open an Issue on Github as problems arise. Instructions to build on your OS of choice can be found on GitHub.
Download I2P Zero for your machine, follow the direction in the README, and report any issues to the Issue tracker on GitHub, or IRC channel #i2p-zero.
Monerujo is looking for translators
If you speak any language beside English, Monerujo needs your help.
Seeking Volunteer Reviewers for PoW RandomX
Donate
If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:
44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A
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