Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of December 5 - December 12, 2019.

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Recent News

One of the new features in Monero is the ability to pay for services with PoW hashes! While this idea isn’t new in and of itself, it’s now natively integrated into the wallet. Some contributors are looking for feedback on what to name this exciting feature..

People who want to help the Monero network via a public node as advised to add --public-node to their config. Details here.

Monero Talk did a post-fork upgrade show where they talked with Howard Chu, Jethro Grassie, and Justin Ehrenhofer about how things are going - watch on YouTube.

Upcoming Events

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel

36C3 Meeting - #monero-ccc IRC channel

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

CCS Proposal Ideas

Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.

CCS Proposals Need Funding

Surae: research funding for Nov 2019 - Jan 2020 by Surae Noether Raised 370.17 of 499.00 XMR (74%)

36C3 Supplies by rehrar Raised 550.18 of 560.00 XMR (98%)

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 1987756 Hash rate: 870.338 MH/s Median block size: 13.1 kB Average Tx per block: 9.09 Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 6590 Block reward: 2.09 XMR

Data taken on December 12, 2019

Hashrate Pool Distribution

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $920,611,967

Localmonero.co Street Price: $50.82

Monero (XMR) Price

XMR to 12/12/19 Week Month Year USD $53.11 -0.83% -15% +21% EUR €47.55 -0.73% -15% +21% BTC B0.00735680 -0.95% -15% +21%

Data taken on December 12, 2019

XMR Price Graph for December 6 - 12, 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.

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.

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

If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:

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Comments, criticism, complaints or corrections? Please contact rehrar at rehrar at tuta.io. Say rehrar sent you.