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Table of Contents:

Recent News

New Kastelo Hardware Wallet Prototype Photos are published on Taiga

Sarang Noether published his May report

MRL collaborates on a new ring-signature scheme with size and verification savings

MRL collaborates on a ring-signature scheme that allows exciting new features like refund transactions and limited atomic swap capabilities

Midipoet posted his Oslo Freedom Forum Fringe Review

Exa Wallet, a new Monero mobile wallet app with multisignatures support, has been released for Android and iOS

Cake Wallet update available for iOS users - bug fixes and some improvements included

June Monero Coffee Chat - available on YouTube

Monero Talk with Howard Chu and Sam Williams of Arweave about RandomX progress - available on YouTube

“Exploring Monero UI/UX Episode 1: General UX” is available on YouTube

The Monero Outreach Group published a blog post on RandomX - “Monero and Arweave to Validate the Proof-of-Work Algorithm”

Upcoming Events

June 8, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting

June 10, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting

June 11, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC

Monero GUI Meeting

June 15, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

DefCon27 Workgroup Meeting

June 16, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting

June 20, 2019 (Thursday) – 17:00 UTC

Tini2p Dev Meeting

June 22-23, 2019 - Denver, US

Monero Konferenco

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

Sarang: research funding for 2019 Q3

(travala.com) Add Monero as a supported payment method

Keyi Store needs assistance from Monero Community

New idea for ideas section: Rapida, fibre like thing for monero

Funding To Produce, Write And Record An Entirely Original Rap/Hip-Hop Anthem Exclusively For Monero

Monero currency and blockchain statistics hub

CCS Proposals Need Funding

Moneromooo coding, July 2019 by moneromooo

Raised 126.00 of 294.00 XMR (43%)

Monero Outreach Round 3 by xmrhaelan

Raised 0.00 of 110.00 XMR

Monero Defcon 27 Supplies by ajs

Raised 17.52 of 73.00 XMR (24%)

Defcon 2019 Volunteer Reimbursement by rehrar

Raised 55.46 of 137.00 XMR (40%)

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 1851245

Median block size: 292.97 kB

Hash rate: 333.810 MH/s

Average Tx per block: 12.59

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 9072

Block reward: 2.71 XMR

Data taken on June 6, 2019

Hashrate Pool Distribution

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,442,156,734
Localmonero.co Street Price: $83.86

Monero (XMR) Price

XMR to 06/06/19 Week Month Year
USD $85.63 -8.1% +28.6% -48.6%
EUR €75.97 -9.2% +27.8% -46.5%
BTC Ƀ0.01110059 +3.1% -4.5% -49.5%

Data taken on June 6, 2019

XMR Price Graph for May 30 - June 6, 2019

![XMR Price Graph 05/30/19-06/06/19](/img/weekly-chart-0530.png "XMR Price Graph 05/30/19-06/06/19") Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co

Monero Non-Profit of the Week

Open Privacy Logo The Open Privacy Research Society (Open Privacy for short) is a non-profit Canadian group based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They believe that moral systems enable consent. The society exists to invent, create, build, test, publish, deploy, promote, and to encourage the development of such systems. Check back next week for another merchant that accepts Monero for their goods and services.

Volunteer Opportunities

If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.

If you know of any merchants or exchanges that are still using a long form payment ID, please let the community know so we can contact them and ask them to integrated addresses or subaddresses. Feel free to leave them in the comments of this Reddit thread.

Test I2P-Zero

Download I2P Zero for your machine, follow the direction in the README, and report any issues to the Issue tracker on GitHub, or IRC channel #i2p-zero.

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

Comments, criticism, complaints or corrections? Please contact rehrar at **rehrar** at **tuta.io**. Say rehrar sent you.