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Recent News

El Monero, the Spanish podcast about Monero has released two more episodes: Episode 4 and Episode 5.

Dr. Daniel Kim’s Defcon speech has been remastered for your viewing pleasure.

Monero Talk interviewed Dr. Daniel Kim to expand on his popular Defcon talk - watch on YouTube.

Upcoming Events

September 16, 2020 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC

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

September 20, 2020 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

September 26, 2020 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

Atomic Swap implementation funding

Make Yaml valid

Implementing New Range Proof Technique Bulletproofs+ in Monero

Compilation time reduction and housekeeping

CCS Proposals Need Funding

Translation of the Moneropedia and User Guides into German by Wobole

Raised 0.06 of 28.5 XMR

Monero FM (community run radio project) by rehrar and needmoney90

Raised 0.01 of 35 XMR

Norwegian translation of User guides and Moneropedia by Chris Avis

Raised 0 of 29.4 XMR

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2186792

Hash rate: 1.322 GH/s

Median block size: 34.7 kB

Average Tx per block: 16.11

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 11,639

Block reward: 1.43 XMR

Data taken on September 14, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,598,774,850
Localmonero.co Street Price: $86.54

Monero (XMR) Price

09/14/20 Week Month Year
USD $90.34 +12.6% -1.3% +17.7%
EUR €76.67 +13.5% -0.8% +11.2%
BTC B0.00847952 +13.5% +9.06% +14.3%

Data taken on September 14, 2020

XMR Price Graph for September 8 - 14, 2020

![XMR Price Graph 09/06/20-09/14/20](/img/weekly-chart-0914.png "XMR Price Graph 09/06/20-09/14/20") 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.

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.

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

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