---
type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2022-12-01T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 148
title: "Issue 148: November 24 - December 1, 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>Monero celebrated ASIC-resistant, innovative RandomX's mining algorithm third anniversary on November 30, 2022. Carbon Chamaeleon v0.15.0.0 <a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero/releases/tag/v0.15.0.0" target="_blank">release</a>. Monero Outreach <a href="https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/RandomX.html" target="_blank">story</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>P2Pool <a href="https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool/releases/tag/v2.6" target="_blank">v2.6</a>. P2Pool broke its all-time-high network hashrate printing ~370 MH/s on November 26.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Stack Wallet <a href="https://github.com/cypherstack/stack_wallet/releases/tag/build_0095" target="_blank">v1.5.22</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Farcaster Node <a href="https://github.com/farcaster-project/farcaster-node/releases/tag/v0.4.0" target="_blank">v0.4.0</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>LocalMonero/AgoraDesk <a href="https://github.com/AgoraDesk-LocalMonero/agoradesk-app-foss/releases/tag/v1.0.38" target="_blank">v1.0.38</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>BitcartCC payment processor adds Monero support. Repository: <a href="https://github.com/bitcartcc/bitcart" target="_blank">here</a>; Demo: <a href="https://admin.bitcartcc.com/" target="_blank">here</a>; Docs: <a href="https://docs.bitcartcc.com/" target="_blank">here</a>; Reddit <a href="https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/Monero/comments/z5eggu/opensource_selfhosted_payment_processor_bitcartcc/" target="_blank">thread</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>spirobel released a self-hosted Monero Patreon. GitHub <a href="https://github.com/spirobel/monero-discourse-subscriptions/" target="_blank">repository</a>; Twitter <a href="https://nitter.1d4.us/spirobel/status/1595949928634667008" target="_blank">thread</a>. As well, spirobel released <a href="https://monerochan.cash/" target="_blank">monerochan.cash</a> — an introductory website to explain what digital cash is and where merchants can find resources to start accepting Monero in their stores.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>monerobull added a Digital Items section to monerosupplies. Read about it <a href="https://monerosupplies.com/2022/11/29/announcing-new-digital-items-platform-for-creators/" target="_blank">here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk had a conversation with Janice McAfee, wife of late John McAfee, to talk about crypto, parallel economies, living off the grid, life, death and philosophy of John. Peep it: <a href="https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=j-jBYyO3Evg" target="_blank">video</a>; <a href="https://www.monerotalk.live/the-mcafee-vision-janice-mcafee" target="_blank">audio</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">December 3, 2022 (Saturday) – 16:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Community Workgroup Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-community" target="_blank">#monero-community</a> IRC channel; Matrix <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-community:monero.social" target="_blank">room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">December 5, 2022 (Monday) – 18:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Seraphis Wallet Workgroup Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#no-wallet-left-behind" target="_blank">#no-wallet-left-behind</a> IRC channel; Matrix <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#no-wallet-left-behind:monero.social" target="_blank">room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">December 7, 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; Matrix <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lab:monero.social" target="_blank">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/362" target="_blank">Draft: MoneroKon 2023 CCS-1</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/353" target="_blank">Metronero checkout</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/363" target="_blank">Monero Observer maintenance (Winter 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>2767957</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>2.726 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average txs. per block: <b>22.59</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: <b>16363</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>0.6 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on December 1, 2022.</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-12011.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>$2,599,611,518</b>.<br/>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$139.3</b>.</div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>12/01/22</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="12/01/22">$143.11</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+6.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-4.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-39.9%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="12/01/22">€136.21</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+5.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-9.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-35.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="12/01/22">₿0.00840045</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+3.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+15.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+101.0%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on December 1, 2022.</p>

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

![XMR Price Graph 11/24/22-12/01/22](/img/weekly-chart-12011.png "XMR Price Graph 11/24/22-12/01/22")

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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