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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2022-09-15T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 137
title: "Issue 137: September 8 - 15, 2022"
---

<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ul class="contents">
    <li><a href="#news">Recent News</a></li>
    <li><a href="#events">Upcoming Events</a></li>
    <li><a href="#ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</a></li>
    <li><a href="#proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</a></li>
    <li><a href="#stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</a></li>
    <li><a href="#volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</a></li>
    <li><a href="#support">Support</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="news">Recent News</h3>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Policy Working Group published a blog post supporting the recent Coinbase-funded lawsuit against OFAC for sanctioning Tornado Cash. Check it out <a href="https://moneropolicy.org/2022-09-12-tornado-cash/" target="_blank">here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Huobi Global will be delisting a slew of privacy coins, including Monero, on September 19, 2022. Users who transact on Huobi should withdraw funds before then. <a href="https://www.huobi.com/support/en-us/detail/104917015223952" target="_blank">Announcement</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Haveno DEX has opened four new bounties. Twitter <a href="https://nttr.stream/HavenoDEX/status/1569605009943269376" target="_blank">thread</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>monero-bash <a href="https://github.com/hinto-janaiyo/monero-bash/releases/tag/v1.9.2" target="_blank">v1.9.2</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>MAGIC Grants-funded research paper on Monero ring signature resiliency to artificial intelligence analysis <a href="https://magicgrants.org/Monero-Tracing-Research/" target="_blank">released</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Cake Wallet v4.4.6 and Monero.com v1.1.0 with exchange improvements and bug fixes were released. Reddit <a href="https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/Monero/comments/xf5byx/cake_wallet_446_and_monerocom_110_huge_exchange/" target="_blank">thread</a>.</h4>
</div>

<h3 id="events">Upcoming Events</h3>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 17, 2022 (Saturday) – 18:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">MoneroKon 2023 Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-events" target="_blank">#monero-events</a> IRC channel; <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-events:monero.social" target="_blank">Matrix room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 21, 2022 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-research-lab" target="_blank">#monero-research-lab</a> IRC channel; <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lab:monero.social" target="_blank">Matrix room</a>.</p>
</div>

<h3 id="ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</h3>

<p>Below you can find some CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.</p>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/336" target="_blank">The-Monero-Moon-CCS-Proposal-August2022-John-Foss</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/323" target="_blank">MoneroSigner. Fork of seedsigner for Monero</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/342" target="_blank">Monero Observer maintenance (Autumn 2022)</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p>Find more <a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/" target="_blank">here</a>. Posting comments in favor of, or against proposals is encouraged.</p>
</div>

<h3 id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>

<p>None; all funded for now.</p>

<h3 id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>

<h4 class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2712699</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>2.593 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average txs. per block: <b>23.33</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: <b>17411</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>0.6 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on September 15, 2022.</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0915.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

<h4 class="stat" id="price-stat">Price & Performance</h4>

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$2,638,756,595</b>.<br/>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$157.93</b>.</div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>09/15/22</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="09/15/22">$145.57</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-2.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-11.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-46.0%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="09/15/22">€145.57</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-2.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-9.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-36.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="09/15/22">₿0.00732793</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-5.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+8.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+28.2%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on September 15, 2022.</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph</p>

![XMR Price Graph 09/08/22-09/15/22](/img/weekly-chart-0915.png "XMR Price Graph 09/08/22-09/15/22")

Sources: <a href="https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero" target="_blank">miningpoolstats.stream</a>; <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/monero/" target="_blank">bitinfocharts.com</a>; <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/monero" target="_blank">coingecko.com</a>; <a href="https://localmonero.co/statistics" target="_blank">localmonero.co statistics</a>; <a href="https://localmonero.co/blocks" target="_blank">localmonero.co blocks</a>.

<h3 id="volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</h3>

<p>If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren't sure how, check out some volunteer opportunities.</p>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero" target="_blank">Test Monero Core Software</a></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 <a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p class="date"><a href="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 <a href="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 Workgroup. </p>
</div>

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