Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of April 26 - May 2, 2019.

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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

Monero Coffee Chat - watch online here

DefCon27 Workgroup Meeting

Dev Meeting

Research Lab Meeting

Monero GUI Meeting

Tini2p Dev Meeting

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

XMR Market Cap: $1,092,379,011

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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