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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-12-06T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 37
title: "Issue 37: November 28 - December 5, 2019"
---

<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ul class="contents">
    <li><a href="#news">Recent News</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="#sponsor">Sponsors</a></li>
    <li><a href="#donate">Donate</a></li>
</ul>

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

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://web.getmonero.org/2019/11/12/monero-0.15-released.html" target="_blank">Monero has completed its hard fork</a>. If you have not updated your wallet software, now is the time.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Reddit user <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/monerobby" target="_blank">monerobby</a> has created <a href="https://xmrnotify.com/" target="_blank">a paid service for users to be notified of incoming transactions to their view-only wallets</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Tevador, the principal author of RandomX, has created a <a href="https://github.com/tevador/randomx-sniffer" target="_blank">RandomX Sniffer tool</a> to help users detect if RandomX is running on their computer.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Core Team has released <a href="https://web.getmonero.org/2019/12/03/core-team-general-fund.html" target="_blank">an update on the general fund and some minor announcements</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/e6j5v3/getmoneroorg_updated_blog_posts_and_announcements/" target="_blank">The getmonero.org website has been updated with new content, localizations, and more</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>XMR.ru, the Russian community workgroup, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/e5hp4u/xmrrureport_november/" target="_blank">has released their monthly report</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases/tag/v5.1.0" target="_blank">XMRig has released version 5.1.0 with improved RandomX performance</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/e5gg0m/bloc_gui_miner_v114_update_now_support_new/" target="_blank">BLOC GUI Miner has released version 1.1.4 with RandomX support</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>MoneroTalk interviewed John McAfee, discussing cryptocurrency and digital cash - <a href="https://youtu.be/pZJAu0aNez8" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>


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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">December 7, 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">December 9, 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">December 11, 2019 (Wednesday) – 16:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">36C3 Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-ccc" target="_blank">#monero-ccc</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">December 15, 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>

<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/108" target="_blank">us-west-coast-monero-drop-storage</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/107" target="_blank">RandomX Thanks</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/102" target="_blank">WIP: Norwegian translation</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>

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

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/surae-q4-funding-2019.html" target="_blank">Surae: research funding for Nov 2019 - Jan 2020</a> by Surae Noether</p>
    <p>Raised <b>331.07 of 499.00</b> XMR (66%)</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/36c3.html" target="_blank">36C3 Supplies</a> by rehrar</p>
    <p>Raised <b>501.88 of 560.00</b> XMR (90%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>1983123</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>748.431 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>9.28 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>8.63</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>6578</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.11 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on December 6, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-1206.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$936,421,252</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$54.06</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>12/06/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="12/06/19">$54.02</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+0.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-13.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+2.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="12/06/19">€48.85</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-0.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-13.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+5.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="12/06/19">Ƀ0.00727017</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+0.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+7.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-48.2%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on December 6, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for November 30 - December 6, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 11/30/19-12/06/19](/img/weekly-chart-1206.png "XMR Price Graph 11/30/19-12/06/19") 

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>

<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 Group. </p>
</div>

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<p class="text-center"><a href="https://localmonero.co/" target="_blank">LocalMonero.co</a></p>

<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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