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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-10-10T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 29
title: "Issue 29; October 3 - October 10, 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://web.getmonero.org/2019/10/01/announcement-release-0-15.html" target="_blank">A blogpost with information about the upcoming network upgrade has been released</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Localization Workgroup has switched translation platform from Pootle to Weblate. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/dekppj/weblate_is_finally_ready_at_translategetmoneroorg/" target="_blank">See the announcement here</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Getmonero.org got updated: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ddkx41/getmonero_updated_announcement_for_network/" target="_blank">announcement for network upgrade, working CCS API, new merchants, meeting logs and more</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/pull/1044" target="_blank">Preliminary support for Monero on BTCPayServer has been merged</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://bitvps.com/" target="_blank">Virtual Private Server host BitVPS now accepts Monero (not an endorsement)</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://blokt.com/guides/a-beginners-guide-to-monero" target="_blank">Blokt put out a beginner's guide to Monero</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk interviewed Spesmonerujo on the Boron Butterfly Bill Series - <a href="https://youtu.be/uwo7oLJTEo8" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 12, 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 14, 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 19, 2019 (Saturday) – 16:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero Coffee Chat - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxLNPJeEjPXOke55i5AIXA" target="_blank">watch online here</a></p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 20, 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/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>

<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>1941904</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>303.290 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>7.16 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>6.62</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>4707</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.28 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on October 10, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-1010.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$960,059,788</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$55.76</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>10/10/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="10/10/19">$55.65</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-0.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-25.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-51.1%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="10/10/19">€50.57</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-0.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-25.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-48.8%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="10/10/19">Ƀ0.00650801</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-2.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-10.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-62.0%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on October 10, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for October 4 - October 10, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 10/04/19-10/10/19](/img/weekly-chart-1010.png "XMR Price Graph 10/04/19-10/10/19") 

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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