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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2022-09-08T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 136
title: "Issue 136: September 1 - 8, 2022"
---

<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="#support">Support</a></li>
</ul>

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

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Zombie Master published the source code of the crowdfunding page XMR Starter. <a href="https://gitlab.com/zombie_master/xmrstarter" target="_blank">Repository</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>CryptoMorpheus_ shared <a href="https://moneroj.net/view_article/Adoption-Metrics,-Monthly-Edition-(2)/" target="_blank">Adoption Metrics (2)</a> blog post.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>XMR Free Market — buy and sell goods with Monero — is <a href="https://xmrfm.com/login" target="_blank">live</a>. Reddit <a href="https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/xmrfm/comments/x4u3vt/xmr_free_market_a_privacy_focused_ethical_and/" target="_blank">thread</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>monero-bash <a href="https://github.com/hinto-janaiyo/monero-bash/releases/tag/v1.9.0" target="_blank">v1.9.0</a> with Tor support.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>AcceptXMR <a href="https://github.com/busyboredom/acceptxmr/releases/tag/v0.11.1" target="_blank">v0.11.1</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk had Andrea Togni from the Monero Policy Workgroup on to discuss privacy, property, liberty and more. Peep it. <a href="https://piped.mha.fi/watch?v=a5Jmsv0Irew" target="_blank">Video</a>; <a href="https://www.monerotalk.live/andrea-togni-privacy-property-liberty" target="_blank">Audio</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 14, 2022 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-research-lab" target="_blank">#monero-research-lab</a> IRC channel; <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lab:monero.social" target="_blank">Matrix room</a>.</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/336" target="_blank">The-Monero-Moon-CCS-Proposal-August2022-John-Foss</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/341" target="_blank">moneroinflation and more Seraphis development</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/342" target="_blank">Monero Observer maintenance (Autumn 2022)</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p>Find more <a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/" target="_blank">here</a>. Posting comments in favor of, or against proposals is encouraged.</p>
</div>

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

<p>None; all funded for now.</p>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2707747</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>2.605 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average txs. per block: <b>23.41</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: <b>16797</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>0.6 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on September 8, 2022.</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0908.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

<h4 class="stat" id="price-stat">Price & Performance</h4>

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$2,759,804,798</b>.<br/>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$162.17</b>.</div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>09/08/22</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="09/08/22">$152.13</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+2.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-9.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-42.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="09/08/22">€152.03</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+2.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-7.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-31.6%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="09/08/22">₿0.00787682</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+6.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+12.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+40.7%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on September 8, 2022.</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph</p>

![XMR Price Graph 09/01/22-09/08/22](/img/weekly-chart-0908.png "XMR Price Graph 09/01/22-09/08/22")

Sources: <a href="https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero" target="_blank">miningpoolstats.stream</a>; <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/monero/" target="_blank">bitinfocharts.com</a>; <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/monero" target="_blank">coingecko.com</a>; <a href="https://localmonero.co/statistics" target="_blank">localmonero.co statistics</a>; <a href="https://localmonero.co/blocks" target="_blank">localmonero.co blocks</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 some volunteer opportunities.</p>

<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">here</a>. </p>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero" target="_blank">Getting Started with Helping Monero</a></p>
    <p>If you are new to Monero and want to contribute, please check out <a href="https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/getting-started-helping-monero.php" target="_blank">this article about volunteering and contributing to Monero</a> from the Monero Outreach Workgroup. </p>
</div>

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