Issue 6: April 26 - May 2, 2019
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- Upcoming Events
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Donate
Recent News
Dr. Sarang Noether published his monthly research report for April - available on GitLab
LocalMonero now has a no-JavaScript version. Tor/I2P visits will load the no-JavaScript version by default.
Minko, a provably fair Monero game, has added AstroBot that asks trivia questions and rewards correct answers
Breaking Monero Episode 11: Mailbag Episode by SamsungGalaxyPlayer - available on YouTube
Monero Talk about Lightning Network on Monero with Bernhard Breytenbach - available on YouTube
Upcoming Events
May 4, 2019 (Saturday) - 16:00 UTC
Monero Coffee Chat - watch online here
May 4, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
DefCon27 Workgroup Meeting
May 5, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC
Dev Meeting
May 6, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting
May 7, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC
Monero GUI Meeting
May 9, 2019 (Thursday) – 17:00 UTC
Tini2p Dev Meeting
May 11, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting
CCS Proposal Ideas
Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.
CCS Proposals Need Funding
GUI UX coding (3 months) by dsc
Raised 98.48 of 282.00 XMR (35%)
Xiphon part time coding (3 months) by xiphon
Raised 18.10 of 111.00 XMR (16%)
Knueffelbund GUI design for Q2 2019 by knueffelbund
Raised 25.55 of 37.00 XMR (69%)
ErCiccione: Coordinator of the Localization Workgroup - March by ErCiccione
Raised 20.03 of 144.00 XMR (14%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 1826047
Median block size: 292.97 kB
Hash rate: 283.135 MH/s
Average Tx per block: 13.76
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 9878
Block reward: 2.84 XMR
Data taken on May 2, 2019
Hashrate Pool Distribution
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $64.22
Monero (XMR) Price
XMR to | 05/02/19 | Week | Month | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
USD | $64.16 | -5.1% | +5.8% | -73.1% |
EUR | €57.41 | -5.2% | +6.1% | -71.2% |
BTC | Ƀ0.01172669 | -5.7% | -19.8% | -55.7% |
Data taken on May 2, 2019
XMR Price Graph for April 26 - May 2, 2019
Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, 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.
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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