Issue 7: May 2-9, 2019
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- Upcoming Events
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Monero-Accepting Non-Profit of the Week
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Donate
Recent News
Logs from the Dev Meeting from May 5, 2019 are available on GitLab
There are two new updates for monero-pool, a Monero mining pool server written in C. The first is optimizations and improvements, and the second is a brand new feature which uses the --block-notify flag to do block notifications via signals.
XMR can now be used to buy & sell everything on WSWC, a marketplace like eBay for cryptocurrency users
Monero Coffee Chat stream from May 4, 2019 is available on YouTube
Monero Talk with Mohamed Fouda on Evaluating the Privacy Coin Space is available on YouTube
Upcoming Events
May 11, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting
May 13, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting
May 14, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC
Monero GUI Meeting
May 18, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
DefCon27 Workgroup Meeting
May 19, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC
Dev Meeting
May 23, 2019 (Thursday) – 17:00 UTC
Tini2p Dev Meeting
CCS Proposal Ideas
Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.
CCS Proposals Need Funding
Monero representation at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019 by midipoet
Raised 21.01 of 40.00 XMR (53%)
GUI UX coding (3 months) by dsc
Raised 161 of 282.00 XMR (57%)
Xiphon part time coding (3 months) by xiphon
Raised 74.18 of 111.00 XMR (67%)
Knueffelbund GUI design for Q2 2019 by knueffelbund
Raised 31.56 of 37.00 XMR (85%)
ErCiccione: Coordinator of the Localization Workgroup - March by ErCiccione
Raised 51.50 of 144.00 XMR (36%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 1831097
Median block size: 292.97 kB
Hash rate: 327.214 MH/s
Average Tx per block: 16.14
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 11737
Block reward: 2.82 XMR
Data taken on May 9, 2019
Hashrate Pool Distribution
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $64.51
Monero (XMR) Price
| XMR to | 05/09/19 | Week | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $64.17 | -0.5% | -9.8.8% | -71.1% |
| EUR | €57.31 | -0.6% | -9.4% | -69.4% |
| BTC | Ƀ0.01051846 | -12.7% | -22.2% | -56.7% |
Data taken on May 9, 2019
XMR Price Graph for May 2 - May 9, 2019
Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co
Monero-Accepting Non-Profit of the Week
Multidisciplinary Academic Grants in Cryptocurrencies (MAGIC) is a non-profit that is focused on doing good in the world utilizing cryptocurrencies. Their mission includes such things as “providing undergraduate scholarships, research grants, and infrastructure grants, as well as hosting and participating in educational, scientific, or otherwise academic events.”
They accept donations in Monero and other cryptocurrencies via Globee.
Check back next week for another merchant that accepts Monero for their goods and services.
Volunteer Opportunities
If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.
If you know of any merchants or exchanges that are still using a long form payment ID, please let the community know so we can contact them and ask them to integrated addresses or subaddresses. Feel free to leave them in the comments of this Reddit thread.
Download I2P Zero for your machine, follow the direction in the README, and report any issues to the Issue tracker on GitHub, or IRC channel #i2p-zero.
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
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