Issue 57: April 17 - April 24, 2020
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Sponsors
- Donate
Recent News
Moneroversary took place last week. There were many events including a deep dive into the ancient history of Monero, a coffee chat, a quiz game, and more. All can be seen here.
Vice wrote a piece on the work of Justin “sgp” Ehrenhofer in getting the movie “Monero Means Money” to the top of the box office last week.
Another slew of getmonero.org updates is out, including the transition of the repo back to github, an overhauled FAQ page, and more.
The Monero Talk crew interviewed Roger Ver about Monero - watch it on YouTube.
Upcoming Events
April 25, 2020 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel
April 29, 2020 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel
May 3, 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
xiphon part-time coding (3 months) by xiphon
Raised 65.09 of 371 XMR (18%)
Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years by Patrick Schleizer
Raised 40.04 of 73 XMR (55%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 2084224
Hash rate: 1.415 GH/s
Median block size: 26.9 kB
Average Tx per block: 16.21
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 11,815
Block reward: 1.74 XMR
Data taken on April 24, 2020
XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $57.86
Monero (XMR) Price
| 04/24/20 | Week | Month | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $60.35 | +7.5% | +28.1% | -10.7% |
| EUR | €55.80 | +8.0% | +28.8% | -8.0% |
| BTC | B0.00805088 | +0.9% | +14.3% | -35.3% |
Data taken on April 24, 2020
XMR Price Graph for April 18 - April 24, 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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Donate
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