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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-08-29T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 23
title: "Issue 23: August 22-29, 2019"
---

<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="#donate">Donate</a></li>
</ul>

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

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cu36aa/moneromixer_update_1_automatic_setup_is_now/" target="_blank">MoneroMixer Update - Automatic setup, update utility, and more</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cx3gxp/august_monthly_report_from_sarang_noether/" target="_blank">Sarang Noether posted his August report</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Reddit user <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OsrsNeedsF2P/" target="_blank">u/OsrsNeedsF2P</a> has made <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cwx1tu/monero_blockchain_sync_time_visualized_by/" target="_blank">a visualization of Monero's blockchain sync time</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360033074671" target="_blank">Binance has added margin trading for XMR</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cvgg5b/generic_monero_scanner_dev_update_searching_for/" target="_blank">Monero Scanner update: Searching for txs that use your outputs are ring members has been added</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://gist.github.com/xmrdsc/2f2f0ce7a2d099f22e55ba9e4fe1bfba" target="_blank">Walkthrough for Hosting a Monero p2p node on I2P is available on GitHub</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://github.com/mymonero/mymonero-app-js/releases/tag/v1.1.12" target="_blank">New version of MyMonero desktop is out</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Coffee Chat stream from August 23, 2019 is <a href="https://youtu.be/gkbUeDR9oDE" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk with Rainey Reitman & Aaron Mackey of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on whether cryptocurrency, code & cryptography is free speech - <a href="https://youtu.be/nZtolhJ4FA8" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">August 31, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Community Workgroup Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-community" target="_blank">#monero-community</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 2, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-research-lab" target="_blank">#monero-research-lab</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 3, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero GUI Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-gui" target="_blank">#monero-gui</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 8, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Dev Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-dev" target="_blank">#monero-dev</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 29-31, 2019 – The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero presence (booth and speakers) at <a href="https://worldcryptocon.com/" target="_blank">World Crypto Con</a></p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/94" target="_blank">ErCiccione: Installation and configuration of Weblate, the new localization platform</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/88" target="_blank">BrandedGIFS-JB</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/91" target="_blank">Telegram bot for Monero-Jobs group</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/86" target="_blank">A Monero Tip Bot for Telegram</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/78" target="_blank">Pre-paid Gifting Wallets</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/58" target="_blank">Monero currency and blockchain statistics hub</a></p>
</div>

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

<p>None. All funded! But keep a look out for proposals in the future, or donate to the General Fund (<a href="#donate">donation address</a> at the bottom of the Revuo).</p>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>1911630</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>328.751 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>14 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>8.45</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>6056</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.41 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on August 29, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0829.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

<h4 class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap:  <b> $1,180,900,968</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$65.97</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>08/29/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="08/29/19">$68.73</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-14.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-12.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-36.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="08/29/19">€62.18</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-14.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-11.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-32.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="08/29/19">Ƀ0.00724346</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-9.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-11.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-52.3%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on August 29, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for August 23 - August 29, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 08/23/19-08/29/19](/img/weekly-chart-0829.png "XMR Price Graph 08/23/19-08/29/19") 

Sources: <a href="https://community.xmr.to/explorer/mainnet/" target="_blank">community.xmr.to</a>, <a href="https://moneroblocks.info/stats/transaction-stats" target="_blank">moneroblocks.info</a>, <a href="https://minexmr.com/pools.html" target="_blank">minexmr.com</a>, <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/monero/" target="_blank">bitinfocharts.com</a>, <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/" target="_blank">coingecko.com</a>, <a href="https://localmonero.co/" target="_blank">localmonero.co</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 the volunteer opportunities below.</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">on GitHub</a>. </p>
</div>

<h3 id="donate">Donate</h3>

<p markdown="1">If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:</p>

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