<h4>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. <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/e9ix5r/cool_sexy_name_for_the_new_pay_rpc_thing/"target="_blank">Some contributors are looking for feedback on what to name this exciting feature.</a>.
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<h4>People who want to help the Monero network via a public node as advised to add --public-node to their config. <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/e84zo8/public_rpc_node_providers_remote_node_providers/"target="_blank">Details here</a>.
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<h4><ahref="https://www.publish0x.com/treepi/how-moneros-privacy-features-actually-keep-your-information-xezvyq"target="_blank">Publish0x released an article that explains Monero’s privacy features</a>.
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<h4>Monero Talk did a post-fork upgrade show where they talked with Howard Chu, Jethro Grassie, and Justin Ehrenhofer about how things are going - <ahref="https://youtu.be/5xDPSCEwvZU"target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.
<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/surae-q4-funding-2019.html"target="_blank">Surae: research funding for Nov 2019 - Jan 2020</a> by Surae Noether</p>
<p>Raised <b>370.17 of 499.00</b> XMR (74%)</p>
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<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/36c3.html"target="_blank">36C3 Supplies</a> by rehrar</p>
<p>Raised <b>550.18 of 560.00</b> XMR (98%)</p>
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<h3id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>
<h4class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>
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<p>Block height: <b>1987756</b></p>
<p>Hash rate: <b>870.338 MH/s</b></p>
<p>Median block size: <b>13.1 kB</b></p>
<p>Average Tx per block: <b>9.09</b></p>
<p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>6590</b></p>
<p>Block reward: <b>2.09 XMR</b></p>
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<pclass="note">Data taken on December 12, 2019</p>
<h4class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><imgsrc="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-1212.png"alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>
<h4class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>
<divclass="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$920,611,967</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$50.82</b></div>
<pclass="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
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<th>XMR to</th>
<th>12/12/19</th>
<th>Week</th>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Year</th>
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<tddata-th="XMR to">USD</td>
<tddata-th="12/12/19">$53.11</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-0.83%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="red">-15%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="green">+21%</td>
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<tddata-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
<tddata-th="12/12/19">€47.55</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-0.73%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="red">-15%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="green">+21%</td>
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<tddata-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
<tddata-th="12/12/19">B0.00735680</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-0.95%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="red">-15%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="green">+21%</td>
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<pclass="note">Data taken on December 12, 2019</p>
<pclass="table-title">XMR Price Graph for December 6 - 12, 2019</p>
<p>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 <ahref="https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source"target="_blank">on GitHub</a>. </p>
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<pclass="date"><ahref="https://github.com/monero-project/monero"target="_blank">Getting Started with Helping Monero</a></p>
<p>If you are new to Monero and want to contribute, please check out <ahref="https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/getting-started-helping-monero.php"target="_blank">this article about volunteering and contributing to Monero</a> from the Monero Outreach Group. </p>
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