Issue 38: December 5-12, 2019
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- Upcoming Events
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Sponsors
- Donate
Recent News
One of the new features in Monero is the ability to pay for services with PoW hashes! While this idea isn’t new in and of itself, it’s now natively integrated into the wallet. Some contributors are looking for feedback on what to name this exciting feature..
People who want to help the Monero network via a public node as advised to add --public-node to their config. Details here.
Monero Talk did a post-fork upgrade show where they talked with Howard Chu, Jethro Grassie, and Justin Ehrenhofer about how things are going - watch on YouTube.
Upcoming Events
December 15, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC
Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel
December 16, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel
December 18, 2019 (Wednesday) – 16:00 UTC
36C3 Meeting - #monero-ccc IRC channel
December 21, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community 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 370.17 of 499.00 XMR (74%)
36C3 Supplies by rehrar
Raised 550.18 of 560.00 XMR (98%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 1987756
Hash rate: 870.338 MH/s
Median block size: 13.1 kB
Average Tx per block: 9.09
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 6590
Block reward: 2.09 XMR
Data taken on December 12, 2019
Hashrate Pool Distribution
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $50.82
Monero (XMR) Price
| XMR to | 12/12/19 | Week | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $53.11 | -0.83% | -15% | +21% |
| EUR | €47.55 | -0.73% | -15% | +21% |
| BTC | B0.00735680 | -0.95% | -15% | +21% |
Data taken on December 12, 2019
XMR Price Graph for December 6 - 12, 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.