<h4>Monero Defcon talks were livestreamed during the event. The streams are audio/slides only, and are currently a continuous stream for the day rather than cut into individual videos (which is coming soon). You can watch the talks from <ahref="https://youtu.be/wNnjO1XSEdg"target="_blank">Friday</a>, <ahref="https://youtu.be/J_9ssXDErqY"target="_blank">Saturday</a>, and <ahref="https://youtu.be/un7-pwkZRDc"target="_blank">Sunday</a> on Youtube.</h4>
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<h4>Monero Talk did several interviews while at Defcon. You can find them all, as well as some previews of what else they did at the event, at their <ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA-jViJK1OM&list=PLfJ_JjSwYaa-zSb_sDbXWbhQqA5Bb67fL"target="_blank">YouTube channel playlist</a>.
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<h4>Monero ran a Capture the Flag event (CTF), which intended to teach people about Monero as they worked their way through it. dsc wrote <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cpula9/monero_community_ctf_recap_writeup/"target="_blank">a summary of the CTF</a> on Reddit.
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<h4>Diego “rehrar” Salazar, the floor manager of the Monero village, wrote <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cqegma/monero_village_defcon_2019_report/">a summary of the entire event</a>, which can be viewed on Reddit.
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<h4>A picture of the Monero Rising hardware badges that were given away at Defcon (courtesy of fluffypony) <ahref="https://imgur.com/a/FSfDcBh">can be viewed on Imgur</a>.
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<th>Other News</th>
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<h4>All four RandomX audits have been completed, and <ahref="https://ostif.org/four-audits-of-randomx-for-monero-and-arweave-have-been-completed-results"target="_blank">OSTIF has written a summary blog post</a>.
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<h4><ahref="https://eng.ambcrypto.com/monero-the-efficiency-of-the-inefficient-randomx/"target="_blank">AMBCrypto wrote an article about RandomX</a>.</h4>
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<h4><ahref="https://bitbuy.ca/resources/guide/how-to-buy-monero/"target="_blank">BitBuy wrote an article on purchasing Monero in Canada</a>.
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<h4>Reddit user FungibilityMatters <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cqyjqo/moneromixer_a_simple_tool_to_help_you_anonymously/"target="_blank">surprised the community with a new application, tentatively called MoneroMixer</a>, in which non-fungible currencies can be cleaned with Monero.</h4>
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<h4><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cofinc/getmoneroorg_updated_1_new_language_logs_of_the/"target="_blank">Getmonero.org updated: 1 new language, logs of the meetings, new merchants, 1 new payment gateaway and more</a>.</h4>
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<h4><ahref="https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-java"target="_blank">A native Java binding and C++ library to Monero Core's wallet is now available</a>.</h4>
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<h4>The founder of Whonix has proposed packaging Monero for distribution on Debian. <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cowjun/idea_proposal_monero_debian_deb_packages_debian/"target="_blank">Join the discussion on Reddit</a>.</h4>
<p><ahref="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/58"target="_blank">Monero currency and blockchain statistics hub</a></p>
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<h3id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>
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<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/v1docq47-video-creation-translations-into-russian-(august-january).html"target="_blank">v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (august - january)</a> by v1docq47r</p>
<p>Raised <b>1.33 of 37.80</b> XMR (4%)</p>
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<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/surae-mrl-research-q3-2019.html"target="_blank">Continued funding for Surae for another quarter, Aug Sep Nov 2019</a> by suraeNoether</p>
<p>Raised <b>252.42 of 357.00</b> XMR (71%)</p>
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<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/rehrar-sarang-2019-wcc.html"target="_blank">World Crypto Con for rehrar and Sarang</a> by rehrar</p>
<p>Raised <b>28.73 of 30.00</b> XMR (96%)</p>
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<h3id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>
<h4class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>
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<p>Block height: <b>1902493</b></p>
<p>Hash rate: <b>334.706 MH/s</b></p>
<p>Median block size: <b>15.5 kB</b></p>
<p>Average Tx per block: <b>8.51</b></p>
<p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>6138</b></p>
<p>Block reward: <b>2.46 XMR</b></p>
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<pclass="note">Data taken on August 16, 2019</p>
<h4class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><imgsrc="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0816.png"alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>
<h4class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>
<divclass="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b> $1,417,100,009</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$79.51</b></div>
<pclass="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
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<th>XMR to</th>
<th>08/16/19</th>
<th>Week</th>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Year</th>
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<tddata-th="XMR to">USD</td>
<tddata-th="08/16/19">$82.53</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-11.0%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="green">+7.3%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-9.1%</td>
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<tddata-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
<tddata-th="08/16/19">€74.61</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-9.5%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="green">+8.6%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-6.9%</td>
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<tddata-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
<tddata-th="08/16/19">Ƀ0.00799977</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="green">+2.0%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="green">+0.2%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-44.7%</td>
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<pclass="note">Data taken on August 16, 2019</p>
<pclass="table-title">XMR Price Graph for August 10 - August 16, 2019</p>
<p>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 <ahref="https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source"target="_blank">on GitHub</a>. </p>
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