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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-10-25T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 31
title: "Issue 31: October 17 - October 25, 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>Community members sgp and knaccc have made a post titled "Advisory note for users making use of subaddresses" - <a href="https://web.getmonero.org/2019/10/18/subaddress-janus.html" target="_blank">available on GetMonero.org</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>XMR.ru team posted their <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/dk1qvj/xmrrureport_september/" target="_blank">September report</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://twitter.com/CakewalletXMR/status/1185686813010210822" target="_blank">Cake Wallet for Monero has reached 20,000 unique installs on iOS</a>. Congratulations!
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/dme2zo/getmoneroorg_updated_1_new_blog_post_3_new/" target="_blank">Getmonero.org was updated: 1 new blog post, 3 new merchants, meeting logs, updated translation and more</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://twitter.com/btsecom/status/1186344898640916480" target="_blank">BTSE has launched KYC-free XMR spot trading</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>October Monero Coffee Chat from 10/19/2019 is <a href="https://youtu.be/ofHURcDHpyo" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk with Alex on LocalMonero & AgoraDesk, a peer-to-peer OTC Crypto trading service - <a href="https://youtu.be/VuCdBIZcHiE" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 26, 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">October 28, 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">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>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 30, 2019 (Wednesday) – 18:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">36C3 Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-ccc" target="_blank">#monero-ccc</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">November 3, 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>

<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/103" target="_blank">moneromooo, from november 2019</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/102" target="_blank">WIP: Norwegian translation</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/97" target="_blank">funding for a new payment gateway</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/88" target="_blank">BrandedGIFS-JB</a></p>
</div>

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

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/rehrar-36c3-expenses.html" target="_blank">rehrar to 36C3</a> by rehrar</p>
    <p>Raised <b>4.42 of 58.65</b> XMR (8%)</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/ErCiccione-weblate.html" target="_blank">Multiple features and fixes for getmonero.org</a> by erciccione</p>
    <p>Raised <b>2.46 of 60.00</b> XMR (4%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>1952725</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>308.856 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>13.6 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>8.61</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>6190</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.23 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on October 25, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-1025.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,017,588,824</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$55.93</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>10/25/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="10/25/19">$58.88</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+5.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-1.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-44.4%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="10/25/19">€53.17</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+5.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-1.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-42.8%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="10/25/19">Ƀ0.00681603</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-1.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-58.1%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on October 25, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for October 19 - October 25, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 10/19/19-10/25/19](/img/weekly-chart-1025.png "XMR Price Graph 10/19/19-10/25/19") 

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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