Issue 79: October 6 - 12, 2020
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Sponsors
- Donate
Recent News
The Monero Ledger app has been updated. Please update ASAP if you use Ledger to secure your funds.
Trezor has also updated their firmware. Update ASAP if you use Trezor to secure your funds.
Monero Developer moneromooo has made a blockchain based game, based off of a blockchain that is merge mined with Monero. Monero Outreach covers the initiative in a newly released article.
Core Team member ArticMine was interviewed about CipherTrace and cryptocurrency privacy and scaling - watch on YouTube.
CCS Proposal Ideas
Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.
CCS Proposals Need Funding
Sarang Vacation Days by The Core Team
Raised 197.79 of 200 XMR (99%)
Core website translation to Serbian by readifugly
Raised 0 of 3 XMR
Monero Atomic Swaps implementation funding by h4sh3d et al.
Raised 36.51 of 2727 XMR (1%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 2207197
Hash rate: 1.819 GH/s
Median block size: 39.7 kB
Average Tx per block: 23.87
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 17,607
Block reward: 1.37 XMR
Data taken on October 12, 2020
XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $124.12
Monero (XMR) Price
| 10/12/20 | Week | Month | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $130.58 | +15.7% | +50.5% | +143.4% |
| EUR | €110.72 | +15.7% | +51.2% | +127.8% |
| BTC | B0.01136483 | +15.7% | +36.8% | +76.2% |
Data taken on October 12, 2020
XMR Price Graph for October 6 - 12, 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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