Issue 37: November 28 - December 5, 2019
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- Upcoming Events
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Sponsors
- Donate
Recent News
Monero has completed its hard fork. If you have not updated your wallet software, now is the time.
Reddit user monerobby has created a paid service for users to be notified of incoming transactions to their view-only wallets.
Tevador, a key contributor to RandomX, has created a RandomX Sniffer tool to help users detect if RandomX is running on their computer.
The Core Team has released an update on the general fund and some minor announcements.
XMR.ru, the Russian community workgroup, has released their monthly report.
MoneroTalk interviewed John McAfee, discussing cryptocurrency and digital cash - available on YouTube.
Upcoming Events
December 7, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel
December 9, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel
December 11, 2019 (Wednesday) – 16:00 UTC
36C3 Meeting - #monero-ccc IRC channel
December 15, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC
Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel
CCS Proposal Ideas
Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.
CCS Proposals Need Funding
Surae: research funding for Nov 2019 - Jan 2020 by Surae Noether
Raised 331.07 of 499.00 XMR (66%)
36C3 Supplies by rehrar
Raised 501.88 of 560.00 XMR (90%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 1983123
Hash rate: 748.431 MH/s
Median block size: 9.28 kB
Average Tx per block: 8.63
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 6578
Block reward: 2.11 XMR
Data taken on December 6, 2019
Hashrate Pool Distribution
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $54.06
Monero (XMR) Price
| XMR to | 12/06/19 | Week | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $54.02 | +0.2% | -13.9% | +2.5% |
| EUR | €48.85 | -0.2% | -13.8% | +5.2% |
| BTC | Ƀ0.00727017 | +0.2% | +7.8% | -48.2% |
Data taken on December 6, 2019
XMR Price Graph for November 30 - December 6, 2019
Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co
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.
Getting Started with Helping Monero
If you are new to Monero and want to contribute, please check out this article about volunteering and contributing to Monero from the Monero Outreach Group.
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
Comments, criticism, complaints or corrections? Please contact rehrar at rehrar at tuta.io. Say rehrar sent you.