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Table of Contents:

Recent News

XMR breaks new all-time-high: daily tx. count with 61,305 confirmed transactions on Friday 08/12.

Feather wallet v2.1.0.

Monerujo v3.0.2 "Fluorine Fermi" (stable) upgrading Monero Core to v0.18.1.0.

Mining pool MineXMR postponed shutdown date. Expected to close on Friday 08/19. Point your miners to P2Pool to strengthen network decentralization, or another mining pool.

monero-bash v1.8.0.

Haveno's v0.0.1 test network is now live. Twitter thread.

Upcoming Events

August 24, 2022 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

[monero-bash] continued development (3 months).

The-Monero-Moon-CCS-Proposal-August2022-John-Foss.

Find more here. Posting comments in favor of, or against proposals is encouraged.

CCS Proposals Need Funding

None; all funded for now.

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2692417

Hash rate: 2.475 GH/s

Average txs. per block: 42.01

Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: 29688

Block reward: 0.6 XMR

Data taken on August 18, 2022.

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $2,942,835,073.
Localmonero.co Street Price: $174.54.

Monero (XMR) Price

08/18/22 Week Month Year
USD $162.17 -3.3% +10.2% -36.8%
EUR €160.80 -1.2% +10.9% -26.6%
BTC ₿0.00693530 -1.0% +5.5% +21.0%

Data taken on August 18, 2022.

XMR Price Graph

![XMR Price Graph 08/11/22-08/18/22](/img/weekly-chart-0818.png "XMR Price Graph 08/11/22-08/18/22") Sources: miningpoolstats.stream; bitinfocharts.com; coingecko.com; localmonero.co statistics; localmonero.co blocks.

Volunteer Opportunities

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

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 here.

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 Workgroup.

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