Issue 63: May 30 - June 6, 2020

Table of Contents:

Recent News

Ledger has released a corresponding update. All Ledger hardware wallet users must update.

Monero Talk interviewed Mitchell Krawiec-Thayer & Adam Corbo on making Monero post-quantum secure & private - watch on YouTube.

Upcoming Events

June 10, 2020 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel

June 14, 2020 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

June 20, 2020 (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

Research post-quantum strategies for Monero by Insight

Raised 551.06 of 576 XMR (96%)

Norwegian translation of webplate, footers, nav. menu by Chris Avis

Raised 2.16 of 6 XMR (36%)

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2114302

Hash rate: 1.419 GH/s

Median block size: 20.6 kB

Average Tx per block: 17.66

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 12,660

Block reward: 1.64 XMR

Data taken on June 6, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,195,983,930
Localmonero.co Street Price: $64.56

Monero (XMR) Price

06/06/20 Week Month Year
USD $68.00 +4.3% +5.3% -22.5%
EUR €60.17 +2.7% +1.1% -22.6%
BTC B0.00701207 +1.8% +8.5% -37.5%

Data taken on June 6, 2020

XMR Price Graph for May 31 - June 6, 2020

XMR Price Graph 05/31/20-06/06/20

Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, miningpoolstats.stream, 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.

Test Monero Core Software

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.

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