--- type: weekly layout: weekly_old date: "2019-10-10T00:00:00Z" issuenumber: 29 title: "Issue 29; October 3 - October 10, 2019" ---

Table of Contents:

Recent News

A blogpost with information about the upcoming network upgrade has been released.

The Localization Workgroup has switched translation platform from Pootle to Weblate. See the announcement here.

Getmonero.org got updated: announcement for network upgrade, working CCS API, new merchants, meeting logs and more.

Preliminary support for Monero on BTCPayServer has been merged.

Virtual Private Server host BitVPS now accepts Monero (not an endorsement).

Blokt put out a beginner's guide to Monero.

Monero Talk interviewed Spesmonerujo on the Boron Butterfly Bill Series - available on YouTube.

Upcoming Events

October 12, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

October 14, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel

October 19, 2019 (Saturday) – 16:00 UTC

Monero Coffee Chat - watch online here

October 20, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

October 29-31, 2019 – The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

Monero presence (booth and speakers) at World Crypto Con

CCS Proposal Ideas

Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.

Telegram bot for Monero-Jobs group

BrandedGIFS-JB

CCS Proposals Need Funding

None. All funded! But keep a look out for proposals in the future, or donate to the General Fund (donation address at the bottom of the Revuo).

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 1941904

Hash rate: 303.290 MH/s

Median block size: 7.16 kB

Average Tx per block: 6.62

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 4707

Block reward: 2.28 XMR

Data taken on October 10, 2019

Hashrate Pool Distribution

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $960,059,788
Localmonero.co Street Price: $55.76

Monero (XMR) Price

XMR to 10/10/19 Week Month Year
USD $55.65 -0.4% -25.8% -51.1%
EUR €50.57 -0.8% -25.5% -48.8%
BTC Ƀ0.00650801 -2.7% -10.4% -62.0%

Data taken on October 10, 2019

XMR Price Graph for October 4 - October 10, 2019

![XMR Price Graph 10/04/19-10/10/19](/img/weekly-chart-1010.png "XMR Price Graph 10/04/19-10/10/19") Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, 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.

Test Monero Core Software

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.

If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:

44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A

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