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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-09-19T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 26
title: "Issue 26; September 12-19, 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/d4musv/update_cake_wallet_version_3120_black_forest_cake/" target="_blank">New update for Cake Wallet - Version 3.1.20 Black Forest Cake Edition - is available for download</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360033808071" target="_blank">Binance adds Monero to Binance Lending Products</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php" target="_blank">The Linux Mint Project now accepts Monero for donations</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://support.okex.co.kr/hc/ko/articles/360033580551" target="_blank">OKEx Korea delists Monero, Zcash and other alleged privacy coin</a>.</h4>
</div>


<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>BLOC GUI Miner has had two updates in the past week. Find the patch notes on Reddit <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/d3ng6c/mine_monero_xmr_with_style_bloc_gui_miner_new/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/d65wge/mine_monero_xmr_with_style_from_macos_windows/" target="_blank">here</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The mining software XMRig has two new releases. The first is <a href="https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases/tag/v3.1.2" target="_blank">the stable release update</a>, and the second is <a href="https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases/tag/v4.0.0-beta" target="_blank">a beta</a> for any testers out there. Check them out!</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Revuo Monero released another periodical covering major Monero workgroup updates during the first half of 2019 - <a href="https://revuo-monero.com/periodicals/periodical-3-2019.html" target="_blank">available here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk with Jonathan Leong, CEO of BTSE on how this exchange will be integrating Monero futures - <a href="https://youtu.be/jMApMoNhZ0Q" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Coin Watch interviewed Paul Puey, CEO of Edge Wallet, about Monero and Dash - <a href="https://youtu.be/WxEUO05-aoQ" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 21, 2019 (Saturday) – 16:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero Coffee Chat - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxLNPJeEjPXOke55i5AIXA" target="_blank">watch online here</a></p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 22, 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">September 23, 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">September 28, 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/98" target="_blank">Monero Wiki September 2019</a></p>
</div>

<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>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/86" target="_blank">A Monero Tip Bot for Telegram</a></p>
</div>

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

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/sarang-2019-q4.html" target="_blank">Sarang: research funding for 2019 Q4</a> by Sarang Noether</p>
    <p>Raised <b>58.65 of 417.00</b> XMR (14%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>1926839</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>325.189 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>8.02 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>7.62</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>5468</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.35 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on September 19, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0919.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap:  <b> $1,306,282,194</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$75.49</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>09/19/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="09/19/19">$75.83</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+2.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-15.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-32.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="09/19/19">€68.66</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+2.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-15.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-28.71%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="09/19/19">Ƀ0.00740395</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+1.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-10.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-58.2%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on September 19, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for September 13 - 19, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 09/13/19-09/19/19](/img/weekly-chart-0919.png "XMR Price Graph 09/13/19-09/19/19") 

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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