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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-10-03T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 28
title: "Issue 28: September 26 - October 3, 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><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/d9yocl/randomx_is_now_live_on_testnet/" target="_blank">RandomX is live on testnet</a>!
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>People are beginning to post benchmarks for RandomX. <a href="https://randomx.monerobenchmarks.info/" target="_blank">Check them out and submit your own</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The creators of LocalMonero.co have created <a href="https://agoradesk.com/" target="_blank">Agoradesk</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://support.exodus.io/article/1138-monero-key-types" target="_blank">Exodus wallet put out a support page for Monero’s unique features, including it’s different key types</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/654" target="_blank">A new version of Monero’s CLSAG ring signatures paper is out</a>.</h4>
</div>


<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/issues/1204" target="_blank">XMRig has put out a RandomX migration guide for miners</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Crypto Rating Council, made up of several exchanges, <a href="https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1178627290676301824/photo/1" target="_blank">has rated several cryptocurrencies on their likelihood of being a security by SEC standards</a> (though the Council is not SEC acknowledged). They rated Monero as “Not a security”.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://blokt.com/news/monero-interview-shedding-light-on-the-coming-0-15-upgrade-and-randomx" target="_blank">Blokt put out an article on the upcoming network upgrade</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk interviewed Brad Mines (@bitfiwarrior) about Monero and the importance of privacy - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWc6sb1ikWc" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 6, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Dev Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-dev" target="_blank">#monero-dev</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 7, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-research-lab" target="_blank">#monero-research-lab</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 12, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Community Workgroup Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-community" target="_blank">#monero-community</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">October 29-31, 2019 – The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero presence (booth and speakers) at <a href="https://worldcryptocon.com/" target="_blank">World Crypto Con</a></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/91" target="_blank">Telegram bot for Monero-Jobs group</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/88" target="_blank">BrandedGIFS-JB</a></p>
</div>

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

<p>None. All funded! But keep a look out for proposals in the future, or donate to the General Fund (<a href="#donate">donation address</a> at the bottom of the Revuo).</p>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>1936818</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>328.452 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>10.6 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>6.23</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>4505</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.30 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on October 3, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-1003.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$950,641,526</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$52.40</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>10/03/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="10/03/19">$55.12</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-7.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-24.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-52.8%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="10/03/19">€50.26</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-7.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-24.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-50.3%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="10/03/19">Ƀ0.00676993</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-3.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-4.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-62.0%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on October 3, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for September 27 - October 3, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 09/27/19-10/03/19](/img/weekly-chart-1003.png "XMR Price Graph 09/27/19-10/03/19") 

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 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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