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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2022-08-04T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 131
title: "Issue 131: July 28 - August 4, 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>RINO Wallet added a hardfork <a href="https://community.rino.io/xmr-countdown/" target="_blank">countdown</a> to their Community Hub. Follow along through Saturday, August 13th.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Mining pool <a href="https://minexmr.com/" target="_blank">MineXMR</a> is shutting down on August 12th. Switching to another pool such as <a href="https://supportxmr.com/" target="_blank">supportXMR</a> before then is advised. Alternatively, consider <a href="https://p2pool.io/#pool" target="_blank">P2Pool</a>; helps network hashrate decentralization. <a href="https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool#how-to-mine-on-p2pool" target="_blank">How to</a>; <a href="https://github.com/SChernykh/p2pool#how-pplns-works-in-p2pool" target="_blank">PPLNS</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>monero-bash v1.7.0. <a href="https://github.com/hinto-janaiyo/monero-bash/releases/tag/v1.7.0" target="_blank">Changelog and Download</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monthly Monero Observer <a href="https://monero.observer/monero-observer-blitz-july-2022/" target="_blank">Blitz #12 - July 2022</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero contributor AlexAnarcho discussed Crypto Anarchism and TipXMR with Callum Woodcock for S03E02 of <a href="https://anchor.fm/theweb3podcast/" target="_blank">The Web3 Podcast</a>. RSS <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/8e49f488/podcast/rss" target="_blank">feed</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk had a chat with Luke Parker, A.K.A. kayabaNerve to discuss development of <a href="https://serai.exchange/" target="_blank">Serai DEX</a>. Peep it on <a href="https://librarian.pussthecat.org/@MoneroTalk:8/luke-parker-on-developing-seraidex-and" target="_blank">Odysee</a>. Part 2 to be uploaded soon.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">August 10, 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/333" target="_blank">[monero-bash] continued development (3 months)</a>.</p>
</div>

<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>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>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/selsta-6.html" target="_blank">selsta part-time monero development (3 months)</a> by selsta.</p>
    <p>Raised <b>0 of 110</b> XMR.</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2682433</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>2.546 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average txs. per block: <b>37.83</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average txs. per day: <b>27497</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>0.6 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on August 4, 2022.</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0804.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>$2,867,002,694</b>.<br/>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$160.88</b>.</div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>08/04/22</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="08/04/22">$157.90</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-2.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+27.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-30.3%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="08/04/22">€154.11</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-2.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+29.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-19.3%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="08/04/22">₿0.00700782</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-0.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+14.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+18.8%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on August 4, 2022.</p>

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

![XMR Price Graph 07/28/22-08/04/22](/img/weekly-chart-0804.png "XMR Price Graph 07/28/22-08/04/22")

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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