--- type: weekly layout: weekly_old date: "2019-09-05T00:00:00Z" issuenumber: 24 title: "Issue 24: August 29 - September 5, 2019" ---

Table of Contents:

Recent News

The 2019 Moderator Election for Monero StackExchange is open.

Travala.com has added Monero as a native payment option.

There is an active and vibrant Chinese Monero community on Weibo and WeChat - get connected.

A new update for Cake Wallet - Cake Wallet 3.1.19 - with a list of new features has been released.

Monero Talk announced Gratuitas - a coffee bean store that will help fund Monero Talk and spread Monero.

Reddit user Realchacal posted his latest GUI design for multiple accounts and a poll on how to display the fiat balance.

Ownbit (BitBill) now supports Monero.

Monero PR China Community has translated the Mastering Monero book in Chinese and is readying it for publication.

Reddit user fluffy-doggy posted the top 100 richest Monero addresses.

Upcoming Events

September 8, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

September 9, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC

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

September 10, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC

Monero GUI Meeting - #monero-gui IRC channel

September 14, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community 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

A Monero Tip Bot for Telegram

CCS Proposals Need Funding

New Localization platform: Weblate by ErCiccione

Raised 0 of 11.00 XMR

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 1916781

Hash rate: 343.647 MH/s

Median block size: 14.4 kB

Average Tx per block: 8.07

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 5842

Block reward: 2.39 XMR

Data taken on September 5, 2019

Hashrate Pool Distribution

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,303,049,055
Localmonero.co Street Price: $72.76

Monero (XMR) Price

XMR to 09/05/19 Week Month Year
USD $75.79 +4.7% -19.3% -45.1%
EUR €68.68 +5.2% -17.8% -42.3%
BTC Ƀ0.00717268 -3.5% -9.7% -61.7%

Data taken on September 5, 2019

XMR Price Graph for August 30 - September 5, 2019

![XMR Price Graph 08/30/19-09/05/19](/img/weekly-chart-0905.png "XMR Price Graph 08/30/19-09/05/19") 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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