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| Issue 21: August 8-15, 2019 | /img/twitter-card-issue-21.png | 21 |
Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of August 8 - August 15, 2019.
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- Upcoming Events
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Donate
Recent News
| DEFCON 2019 Recap |
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Monero Defcon talks were livestreamed during the event. The streams are audio/slides only, and are currently a continuous stream for the day rather than cut into individual videos (which is coming soon). You can watch the talks from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on Youtube.
Monero Talk did several interviews while at Defcon. You can find them all, as well as some previews of what else they did at the event, at their YouTube channel playlist.
Monero ran a Capture the Flag event (CTF), which intended to teach people about Monero as they worked their way through it. dsc wrote a summary of the CTF on Reddit.
Diego “rehrar” Salazar, the floor manager of the Monero village, wrote a summary of the entire event, which can be viewed on Reddit.
A picture of the Monero Rising hardware badges that were given away at Defcon (courtesy of fluffypony) can be viewed on Imgur.
| Other News |
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All four RandomX audits have been completed, and OSTIF has written a summary blog post.
Reddit user FungibilityMatters surprised the community with a new application, tentatively called MoneroMixer, in which non-fungible currencies can be cleaned with Monero.
The founder of Whonix has proposed packaging Monero for distribution on Debian. Join the discussion on Reddit.
Upcoming Events
August 17, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel
August 19, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel
August 20, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC
Monero GUI Meeting - #monero-gui IRC channel
August 25, 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
v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (august - january) by v1docq47r
Raised 1.33 of 37.80 XMR (4%)
Continued funding for Surae for another quarter, Aug Sep Nov 2019 by suraeNoether
Raised 252.42 of 357.00 XMR (71%)
World Crypto Con for rehrar and Sarang by rehrar
Raised 28.73 of 30.00 XMR (96%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 1902493
Hash rate: 334.706 MH/s
Median block size: 15.5 kB
Average Tx per block: 8.51
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 6138
Block reward: 2.46 XMR
Data taken on August 16, 2019
Hashrate Pool Distribution
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $79.51
Monero (XMR) Price
| XMR to | 08/16/19 | Week | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $82.53 | -11.0% | +7.3% | -9.1% |
| EUR | €74.61 | -9.5% | +8.6% | -6.9% |
| BTC | Ƀ0.00799977 | +2.0% | +0.2% | -44.7% |
Data taken on August 16, 2019
XMR Price Graph for August 10 - August 16, 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.
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.