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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2022-08-18T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 133
title: "Issue 133; August 11 - 18, 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>XMR breaks new all-time-high: daily tx. count with 61,305 confirmed <a href="https://revuo-xmr.com/img/xmr-tx.count.ath1.png" target="_blank">transactions</a> on Friday 08/12.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Feather wallet <a href="https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/FeatherWallet/comments/wmly8h/feather_wallet_210_released/" target="_blank">v2.1.0</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monerujo v3.0.2 "<a href="https://github.com/m2049r/xmrwallet/releases/tag/v3.0.2" target="_blank">Fluorine Fermi</a>" (stable) upgrading Monero Core to v0.18.1.0.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Mining pool MineXMR postponed shutdown date. Expected to close on Friday 08/19. Point your miners to <a href="https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool" target="_blank">P2Pool</a> to strengthen network decentralization, or another mining pool.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>monero-bash <a href="https://github.com/hinto-janaiyo/monero-bash/releases/tag/v1.8.0" target="_blank">v1.8.0</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Haveno's v0.0.1 test network is now <a href="https://haveno.exchange/blog/test-network-launched/" target="_blank">live</a>. Twitter <a href="https://nitter.it/HavenoDEX/status/1560171585243324416" target="_blank">thread</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">August 24, 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/333" target="_blank">[monero-bash] continued development (3 months)</a>.</p>
</div>

<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>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>2692417</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>2.475 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average txs. per block: <b>42.01</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: <b>29688</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>0.6 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on August 18, 2022.</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0818.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>$2,942,835,073</b>.<br/>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$174.54</b>.</div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>08/18/22</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="08/18/22">$162.17</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-3.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+10.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-36.8%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="08/18/22">€160.80</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+10.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-26.6%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="08/18/22">₿0.00693530</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+5.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+21.0%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on August 18, 2022.</p>

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

![XMR Price Graph 08/11/22-08/18/22](/img/weekly-chart-0818.png "XMR Price Graph 08/11/22-08/18/22")

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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