Issue 16: July 4-11, 2019
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- Upcoming Events
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Monero Merchant of the Week
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Donate
Recent News
The third audit (by X41) of RandomX has been completed, with minimal changes needed. One more to go!
Poloniex now provides card and bank account connectivity for crypto trading, including Monero, thereby providing another fiat gateway.
A Monero game that was in the works by gscoders is finished. Try it out in your browser or on Android.
A guide on blockchain pruning with the GUI (v0.14.1.0) is now available on StackExchange.
Vanity Monero, a funny tool which allow to create personalized Monero addresses, has joined the Monero Ecosystem project.
Anonimal posted a report on the past half-year of the Vulnerability Response Process (VRP) Workgroup
Cake Wallet posted a clarification on the roles of accounts and subaddresses in the app.
Justin “sgp” Ehrenhofer released some stats about the viewership of the Monero Community Workgroup channel (where MoneroKon videos, Breaking Monero, and the Coffee Chats are hosted).
The cryptocurrency news site Crypto Briefing released a second article covering different aspects of the recent Monero Konferenco.
Trailofbits, one of the auditors of RandomX, put out an article detailing the protocol.
CurrentCrypto released an article on Monero in Dutch.
Upcoming Events
July 13, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
DefCon27 Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel
July 14, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC
Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel
July 15, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel
July 16, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC
Monero GUI Meeting - #monero-gui IRC channel
July 20, 2019 (Saturday) – 16:00 UTC
DefCon27 Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel
July 20, 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
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: 1876330
Median block size: 292.97 kB
Hash rate: 328.138 MH/s
Average Tx per block: 8.82
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 3371
Block reward: 2.58 XMR
Data taken on July 11, 2019
Hashrate Pool Distribution
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $94.44
Monero (XMR) Price
| XMR to | 07/11/19 | Week | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $93.83 | +3.8% | +8.1% | -22.6% |
| EUR | €83.36 | +4.1% | +8.7% | -19.4% |
| BTC | Ƀ0.00803317 | +6.7% | -26.0% | -58.3% |
Data taken on July 11, 2019
XMR Price Graph for July 5 - July 11, 2019
Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co
Monero Merchant of the Week
Coinhost.io Web Services was founded in 2015 with the purpose of deploying a valuable service powered by cryptocurrency, backed by industry veterans and passionate support.
Their partnerships, experience, and enthusiasm coupled with cryptocurrency allows for Coinhost to provide a transparent pricing model for their partners, affiliates, and resellers.
Motto: Cryptocurrency Accepted, Privacy Respected.
Check back next week for another organization or project 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.
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.
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.
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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