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Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of August 8 - August 15, 2019.

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Table of Contents:

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Recent News

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DEFCON 2019 Recap
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Monero Defcon talks were livestreamed during the event. The streams are audio/slides only, and are currently a continuous stream for the day rather than cut into individual videos (which is coming soon). You can watch the talks from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on Youtube.

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Monero Talk did several interviews while at Defcon. You can find them all, as well as some previews of what else they did at the event, at their YouTube channel playlist. +

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Monero ran a Capture the Flag event (CTF), which intended to teach people about Monero as they worked their way through it. dsc wrote a summary of the CTF on Reddit. +

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Diego “rehrar” Salazar, the floor manager of the Monero village, wrote a summary of the entire event, which can be viewed on Reddit. +

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A picture of the Monero Rising hardware badges that were given away at Defcon (courtesy of fluffypony) can be viewed on Imgur. +

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Other News
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All four RandomX audits have been completed, and OSTIF has written a summary blog post. +

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AMBCrypto wrote an article about RandomX.

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BitBuy wrote an article on purchasing Monero in Canada. +

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Reddit user FungibilityMatters surprised the community with a new application, tentatively called MoneroMixer, in which non-fungible currencies can be cleaned with Monero.

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Getmonero.org updated: 1 new language, logs of the meetings, new merchants, 1 new payment gateaway and more.

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A native Java binding and C++ library to Monero Core's wallet is now available.

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The founder of Whonix has proposed packaging Monero for distribution on Debian. Join the discussion on Reddit.

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Upcoming Events

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August 17, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

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Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

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August 19, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC

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

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August 20, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC

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Monero GUI Meeting - #monero-gui IRC channel

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August 25, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

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Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

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CCS Proposal Ideas

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

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BrandedGIFS-JB

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Telegram bot for Monero-Jobs group

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A Monero Tip Bot for Telegram

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Pre-paid Gifting Wallets

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Monero currency and blockchain statistics hub

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CCS Proposals Need Funding

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v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (august - january) by v1docq47r

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Raised 1.33 of 37.80 XMR (4%)

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Continued funding for Surae for another quarter, Aug Sep Nov 2019 by suraeNoether

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Raised 252.42 of 357.00 XMR (71%)

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World Crypto Con for rehrar and Sarang by rehrar

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Raised 28.73 of 30.00 XMR (96%)

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Price & Blockchain Stats

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Blockchain Stats

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Block height: 1902493

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Hash rate: 334.706 MH/s

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Median block size: 15.5 kB

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Average Tx per block: 8.51

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Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 6138

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Block reward: 2.46 XMR

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Data taken on August 16, 2019

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Hashrate Pool Distribution

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Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

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Price & Performance

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XMR Market Cap: $1,417,100,009
Localmonero.co Street Price: $79.51
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Monero (XMR) Price

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XMR to08/16/19WeekMonthYear
USD$82.53-11.0%+7.3%-9.1%
EUR€74.61-9.5%+8.6%-6.9%
BTCɃ0.00799977+2.0%+0.2%-44.7%
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Data taken on August 16, 2019

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XMR Price Graph for August 10 - August 16, 2019

+ +![XMR Price Graph 08/10/19-08/16/19](/img/weekly-chart-0816.png "XMR Price Graph 08/10/19-08/16/19") + +Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co + +

Volunteer Opportunities

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If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.

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Test Monero Core Software

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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.

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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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