Issue 216: October 24 - 31, 2024

Table of Contents:

Recent News

Bit2Me CEX delisted XMR on October, 31st. Official announcement. Meanwhile, Haveno Reto’s monthly volume candle printed a whopping 1,000 XMR! …because what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.

Monero Research Lab contributor Rucknium reviewed recent Cypher Stack paper on churning Monero. Ruck’s review; final Cypher Stack paper (.pdf format).

Reddit user OverEducation6572 released a Monero Churning timing tool. Reddit thread; GitHub repository; live site with tool. Use with caution, as this has not been reviewed yet; feedback welcome.

‘Official’ getmonero.org website to get a new look using Astro’s framework in the next few months, thanks to Diego ‘rehrar’ Salazar and others’ contributions. Reddit thread; WIP GitHub repository. Live demo (.onion). New design layout preview.

Cuprate contributor Boog900 posted a CCS update and started a new discussion thread to figure out ways to prevent P2P proxy nodes. As well, there is an ‘unofficial’ IP ban list for node runners to deter nodes that aren’t actual nodes, just proxies to grab XMR network users’ IP addresses. GitHub repository. If you want to inspect his method to come up with this ban list, reach out by private messaging Boog900 on Matrix at @boog900:monero.social.

MoneroKon has started a brand-new bounty for creating a XMR FLOSS point of sale for Android. Have a look; GitHub repository where people would submit their pull requests to complete project.

LocalMonero-like peer-to-peer CEX solution to go from fiat-to-XMR and from XMR-to-fiat was just announced, introduce bitrica.com. Reddit thread. Owner is supposedly a prominent LocalMonero vendor. Tread with caution and bring feedback to them if you decide to give it a whirl!

Upcoming Events

November 4, 2024 (Monday) - 18:00 UTC

Monero Tech Meeting - #no-wallet-left-behind IRC channel; Matrix room.

November 5, 2024 (Tuesday) - 18:00 UTC

Cuprate Workgroup Meeting - #cuprate IRC channel; Matrix room.

November 6, 2024 (Wednesday) - 18:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.

CCS Proposal Ideas

Below you can find some CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.

Carrot animated video by Simplified Privacy.

CCS Proposals Need Funding

Offline Signing Library for XmrSigner to Production by DiosDelRayo.

Raised 0.49 of 196 XMR (0%)

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 3272066

Hash rate: 3.18 GH/s

Average txs. per block: 33.49

Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: 24057

Block reward: 0.6 XMR

Data taken on November 1, 2024.

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $2,885,424,311.

Street Price: $146.13.

Monero (XMR) Price

11/01/24 Week Month Year
USD $156.77 +0.16% +13.23% -8.14%
EUR €144.65 -0.19% +15.33% -10.7%
BTC ₿0.002269 -2.57% -0.13% -54.04%

Data taken on November 1, 2024.

XMR Price Graph

XMR Price Graph

Sources: miningpoolstats.stream; bitinfocharts.com; coingecko.com; localmonero.co blocks; haveno.markets.

Volunteer Opportunities

If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren't sure how, check out some volunteer opportunities.

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 here.

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