Issue 73: August 23 - 29, 2020

Table of Contents:

Recent News

Monero Space hosted their first digital Monero Meet.

Upcoming Events

September 2, 2020 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC

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

September 6, 2020 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

September 12, 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

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2175475

Hash rate: 1.403 GH/s

Median block size: 26.5 kB

Average Tx per block: 19.03

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 13,763

Block reward: 1.46 XMR

Data taken on August 29, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,655,393,333
Localmonero.co Street Price: $89.01

Monero (XMR) Price

08/29/20 Week Month Year
USD $93.56 -1.3% +15.2% +39.0%
EUR €78.58 -2.2% +14.8% +29.2%
BTC B0.00806810 -0.6% +10.4% +13.7%

Data taken on August 29, 2020

XMR Price Graph for August 23-29, 2020

XMR Price Graph 08/23/20-08/29/20

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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