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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-05-23T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 9
title: "Issue 9: May 16-23, 2019"
---

<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ul class="contents">
    <li><a href="#news">Recent News</a></li>
    <li><a href="#events">Upcoming Events</a></li>
    <li><a href="#ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</a></li>
    <li><a href="#proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</a></li>
    <li><a href="#stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</a></li>
    <li><a href="#volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</a></li>
    <li><a href="#donate">Donate</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="news">Recent News</h3>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Monero Outreach Workgroup published <a href="https://www.monerooutreach.org/response-to-reuters.php" target="_blank">a response</a> to the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currencies-altcoins-explainer/explainer-privacy-coin-monero-offers-near-total-anonymity-idUSKCN1SL0F0" target="_blank">Reuters article about Monero</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bpkuln/randomx_integration_in_monerod/" target="_blank">Full support for RandomX in monerod</a> is now available for testing/review/feedback
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>go-monero-rpc-client, a client for the Monero RPC (wallet and daemon) in golang, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bqtrj5/gomonerorpcclient_a_client_for_the_monero_rpc/" target="_blank">just joined the Monero Ecosystem project</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
    <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/br0wzt/development_version_of_fully_opensourced_online/" target="_blank">Development version of fully open-sourced online Generic Monero Scanner is available for testing</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cake-wallet-for-xmr-monero/id1334702542?mt=8" target="_blank">Cake Wallet Version 3.1.11 available - the bug fix edition</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Minko’s beta launch promised to donate all proceeds from the first month to the general fund. The month has ended, and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/br67pt/minko_1st_month_donation_sent/" target="_blank">Minko has donated 315 XMR to the general fund</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<h3 id="events">Upcoming Events</h3>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">May 25, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Community Workgroup Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">May 27, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">May 28, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero GUI Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date">June 1, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p>DefCon27 Workgroup Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">June 2, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Dev Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">june 6, 2019 (Thursday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Tini2p Dev Meeting</p>
</div>

<h3 id="ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</h3>

<p>Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.</p>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/71" target="_blank">Monero DefCon 27 Supplies</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/70" target="_blank">Monero Outreach Round 3</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/69" target="_blank">DefCon 2019 Volunteer Reimbursement</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/62" target="_blank">New idea for ideas section: Rapida, fibre like thing for monero</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="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>
</div>

<h3 id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/RandomX-audit.html" target="_blank">RandomX Audits</a> by Howard Chu</p>
    <p>Raised <b>1023.83 of 1400.00</b> XMR (73%)</p>
</div>

<h3 id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>

<h4 class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>1841115</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>292.97 kB</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>282.618 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>14.85</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>10610</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.76 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on May 23, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0523.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

<h4 class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap:  <b>$1,429,727,294</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$83.88</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>05/23/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="05/23/19">$84.02</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-11.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+21.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-52.4%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="05/23/19">€74.98</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-11.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+22.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-49.8%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="05/23/19">Ƀ0.01075545</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-6.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-16.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-50.9%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on May 23, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for May 17 - May 23, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 05/17/19-05/23/19](/img/weekly-chart-0523.png "XMR Price Graph 05/17/19-05/23/19") 

Sources: <a href="https://community.xmr.to/explorer/mainnet/" target="_blank">community.xmr.to</a>, <a href="https://moneroblocks.info/stats/transaction-stats" target="_blank">moneroblocks.info</a>, <a href="https://minexmr.com/pools.html" target="_blank">minexmr.com</a>, <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/monero/" target="_blank">bitinfocharts.com</a>, <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/" target="_blank">coingecko.com</a>, <a href="https://localmonero.co/" target="_blank">localmonero.co</a>

<h3 id="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>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bqhjw8/many_languages_of_the_gui_wallet_still_need_to_be/" target="_blank">Translators needed for the new GUI release</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <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 <a href="https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bib6zq/list_of_services_using_long_payment_ids_a_call/" target="_blank">this Reddit thread</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/i2p-zero/i2p-zero/releases" target="_blank">Test I2P-Zero</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>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero" target="_blank">Test Monero Core Software</a></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 <a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source" target="_blank">on GitHub</a>. </p>
</div>

<h3 id="donate">Donate</h3>

<p markdown="1">If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:</p>

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