<h4><ahref="https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-transactions.html"target="_blank">Monero transactions have reached their all time high this past week</a>
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<h4><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bl1uai/the_defcon_monero_village_call_for_presentations/"target="_blank">The DefCon Monero Village Call for Presentations and Volunteers is now open</a>
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<h4><ahref="https://twitter.com/Trezor/status/1125429283697172482"target="_blank">Trezor.io now accepts payments in XMR</a>
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4><ahref="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/key-conference-private-cryptocurrency-held-135100005.html"target="_blank">Yahoo Finance reported on the Monero Konferenco that will be happening this June</a>
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<h4>Logs from the Dev Meeting from May 5, 2019 <ahref="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/blob/31ee489b3a57d930b91be50c4934e6b1612756d9/_posts/2019-05-05-logs-for-the-dev-meeting-held-on-2019-05-05.md"target="_blank">are available on GitLab</a>
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4>There are two new updates for monero-pool, a Monero mining pool server written in C. <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bkokrk/update_announcement_a_monero_mining_pool_server/"target="_blank">The first is optimizations and improvements</a>, and <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bmcmqi/announcement_moneropool_a_special_new_update/"target="_blank">the second is a brand new feature which uses the --block-notify flag to do block notifications via signals</a>.
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4>XMR can now be used to buy & sell everything on <ahref="https://weshopwithcrypto.com/supported-coins/"target="_blank">WSWC, a marketplace like eBay for cryptocurrency users</a>
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4>Monero Coffee Chat stream from May 4, 2019 <ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGd_9QMwTA"target="_blank">is available on YouTube</a>
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<h4><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bkj6ag/monero_added_to_delta_exchange_derivative/"target="_blank">Monero added to Delta Exchange (not an endorsement)</a>
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4>Monero Talk with Mohamed Fouda on Evaluating the Privacy Coin Space <ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shEygxdSqeo"target="_blank">is available on YouTube</a>
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<h4><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bko08i/logs_from_yesterdays_meeting_of_the_monero/"target="_blank">Logs from Monero Localization Workgroup Meeting held on May 3, 2019 are posted</a>
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4><ahref="https://www.pinode.co.uk/monero-plug-and-play.html"target="_blank">PiNode has released an update with new options and an updated presync’d blockchain</a>
<p>Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.</p>
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<p><ahref="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/65"target="_blank">Funding To Produce, Write And Record An Entirely Original Rap/Hip-Hop Anthem Exclusively For Monero</a></p>
<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/midipoet-represent_Monero_at_the_Oslo_Freedom_Forum_2019.html"target="_blank">Monero representation at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019</a> by midipoet</p>
<p>Raised <b>21.01 of 40.00</b> XMR (53%)</p>
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<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/dsc-2019-q2.html"target="_blank">GUI UX coding (3 months)</a> by dsc</p>
<p>Raised <b>161 of 282.00</b> XMR (57%)</p>
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<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/xiphon-part-time.html"target="_blank">Xiphon part time coding (3 months)</a> by xiphon</p>
<p>Raised <b>74.18 of 111.00</b> XMR (67%)</p>
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<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/knueffelbund-gui-design-for-q2-2019.html"target="_blank">Knueffelbund GUI design for Q2 2019</a> by knueffelbund</p>
<p>Raised <b>31.56 of 37.00</b> XMR (85%)</p>
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<divclass="proposal">
<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/ErCiccione-localizations.html"target="_blank">ErCiccione: Coordinator of the Localization Workgroup - March</a> by ErCiccione</p>
<p>Raised <b>51.50 of 144.00</b> XMR (36%)</p>
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<h3id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>
<h4class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>
<divclass="bcstats">
<p>Block height: <b>1831097</b></p>
<p>Median block size: <b>292.97 kB</b></p>
<p>Hash rate: <b>327.214 MH/s</b></p>
<p>Average Tx per block: <b>16.14</b></p>
<p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>11737</b></p>
<p>Block reward: <b>2.82 XMR</b></p>
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<pclass="note">Data taken on May 9, 2019</p>
<h4class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><imgsrc="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0509.png"alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>
<h4class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>
<divclass="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,089,114,039</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$64.51</b></div>
<pclass="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
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<th>XMR to</th>
<th>05/09/19</th>
<th>Week</th>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<tddata-th="XMR to">USD</td>
<tddata-th="05/09/19">$64.17</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-0.5%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="red">-9.8.8%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-71.1%</td>
</tr>
<trclass="row3">
<tddata-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
<tddata-th="05/09/19">€57.31</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-0.6%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="red">-9.4%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-69.4%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tddata-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
<tddata-th="05/09/19">Ƀ0.01051846</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-12.7%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="red">-22.2%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-56.7%</td>
</tr>
</table>
<pclass="note">Data taken on May 9, 2019</p>
<pclass="table-title">XMR Price Graph for May 2 - May 9, 2019</p>
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They accept donations in Monero and other cryptocurrencies via Globee.
<i>Check back next week for another merchant that accepts Monero for their goods and services.</i>
<h3id="volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</h3>
<p>If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.</p>
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<p>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 <ahref="https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bib6zq/list_of_services_using_long_payment_ids_a_call/"target="_blank">this Reddit thread</a>.</p>
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<p><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b5fe5j/psa_seeking_volunteer_reviewers_for_pow_randomx/"target="_blank">Seeking Volunteer Reviewers for PoW RandomX</a></p>
<p>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.</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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<h3id="donate">Donate</h3>
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