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| weekly | weekly_old | 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z | 89 | Issue 89: January 4 - 12, 2021 |
Table of Contents:
- Recent News
- CCS Proposal Ideas
- CCS Proposals Need Funding
- Price & Blockchain Stats
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Sponsors
- Donate
Recent News
GUI and CLI release v0.17.1.9 is out and users are encouraged to upgrade. The release contains further mitigations for the memory exhaust attack that has been utilized on the network (no funds at risk).
lza_menace, a Monero community member, created a tool to spin up Monero nodes called XMR Cannon.
The Monero Policy Workgroup worked up a response to FinCEN regarding cryptocurrencies.
Monero Talk released the second part of their talk with Lee ‘vtnerd’ Clagett titled “On the frontlines of the war against Monero” - watch on YouTube.
CCS Proposal Ideas
Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.
CCS Proposals Need Funding
Continued Feather Wallet development (Q1 2021) by tobtoht
Raised 84.12 of 150 XMR (56%)
Price & Blockchain Stats
Blockchain Stats
Block height: 2273422
Hash rate: 1.930 GH/s
Median block size: 58.2 kB
Average Tx per block: 28.87
Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 20,952
Block reward: 1.21 XMR
Data taken on January 12, 2021
XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks
Price & Performance
Localmonero.co Street Price: $150.42
Monero (XMR) Price
| 01/12/21 | Week | Month | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | $158.17 | +15.3% | +4.0% | +166.9% |
| EUR | €129.52 | +16.1% | +3.3% | +142.9% |
| BTC | B0.00468468 | +16.6% | -40.9% | -35.3% |
Data taken on January 12, 2021
XMR Price Graph for January 5 - January 12, 2021
Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, miningpoolstats.stream, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co
Volunteer Opportunities
If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.
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 on GitHub.
Getting Started with Helping Monero
If you are new to Monero and want to contribute, please check out this article about volunteering and contributing to Monero from the Monero Outreach Group.
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Donate
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