Issue 47: February 7-14, 2020
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Sponsors
- Donate
Recent News
Tevador, the principal engineer of RandomX has made RandomX Service, which provides a simple HTTP API to calculate RandomX proof of work (PoW).
Getmonero.org will soon have an onion address, we just need to choose the vanity address we would like. Cast your vote now!
The Monero Community Workgroup hosted another coffee chat on February 8 - watch the recording on YouTube.
Monero Talk has put out their fourth part to their 36C3 interview series, interviewing: Alexis Roussel, Gregor Žavcer & Sergey Simanovsky talking about the Fair Data Society and C3 in general - watch on YouTube.
Upcoming Events
February 15, 2020 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel
February 19, 2020 (Wednesday) – 18:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel
February 19, 2020 (Wednesday) – 19:00 UTC
Monero Konferenco [EU] Meeting - #monero-konferenco IRC channel
February 23, 2020 (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 (february - july 2020) by v1docq47
Raised 50.03 of 100.00 XMR (50%)
[Monero Aligned] Locha Mesh, a resilient long-range radio mesh network by Randy Brito
Raised 109.07 of 150.00 XMR (73%)
xiphon part-time coding (3 months) by xiphon
Raised 37.96 of 307 XMR (12%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 2033867
Hash rate: 1.351 GH/s
Median block size: 16 kB
Average Tx per block: 11.86
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 8559
Block reward: 1.91 XMR
Data taken on February 14, 2020
XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $89.54
Monero (XMR) Price
| XMR to | 02/14/20 | Week | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $93.61 | +17.6% | +36.9% | +102.3% |
| EUR | €86.46 | +18.8% | +40.9% | +111.0% |
| BTC | B0.00914650 | +12.6% | +18.0% | -29.0% |
Data taken on February 14, 2020
XMR Price Graph for February 8 - 14, 2020
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.
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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