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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-08-01T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 19
title: "Issue 19; July 25 - August 1, 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.youtube.com/watch?v=OpV9LOcaj7Q" target="_blank">Fluffypony was on the Rice Crypto Youtube channel and spoke about how financial privacy is a basic human right</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/citqf8/ledger_monero_application_132_for_nanos_and_nanox/" target="_blank">Ledger has updated their Nano S and X application to run 0.14.1.2</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Ledger also ran a poll for what the Monero community would like them to focus on next for XMR. <a href="https://i.redd.it/i667ehymded31.png" target="_blank">Results pictured here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/chmwt3/probably_not_gonna_happen_but_id_love_to_hear/" target="_blank">Reddit user Realchacal has posted an alternative GUI design for feedback</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/77#note_6916" target="_blank">Dr. Sarang Noether has posted his July report</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/chultw/transcription_monerokon_volunteers/" target="_blank">The Monero Outreach workgroup is looking for volunteers to transcribe MoneroKon videos</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S5UotVgku8" target="_blank">The Monero Coffee Chat was held this past weekend</a> (we forgot to put it in the schedule, sorry!).</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date">August 3, 2019 (Saturday) – 16:00 UTC</p>
    <p>DefCon27 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">August 3, 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">August 8-11, 2019 - Las Vegas, US</p>
    <p markdown="1"><a href="http://monerovillage.com/" target="_blank">Monero Village</a> at DEFCON 2019</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">August 11, 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">August 12, 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">August 13, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero GUI Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-gui" target="_blank">#monero-gui</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/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/86" target="_blank">A Monero Tip Bot for Telegram</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/84" target="_blank">v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (august - january)</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/78" target="_blank">Pre-paid Gifting Wallets</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/58" target="_blank">Monero currency and blockchain statistics hub</a></p>
</div>

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

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/surae-mrl-research-q3-2019.html" target="_blank">Continued funding for Surae for another quarter, Aug Sep Nov 2019</a> by suraeNoether</p>
    <p>Raised <b>0.00 of 357.00</b></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/rehrar-sarang-2019-wcc.html" target="_blank">World Crypto Con for rehrar and Sarang</a> by rehrar</p>
    <p>Raised <b>13.01 of 30.00</b> XMR (43%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>1891484</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>292.97 kB</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>297.509 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>7.42</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>5287</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.51 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on August 1, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0801.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap:  <b> $1,402,510,772</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$81.60</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>08/01/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="08/01/19">$81.68</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+2.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-7.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-32.6%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="08/01/19">€73.46</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+3.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-5.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-28.9%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="08/01/19">Ƀ0.00784357</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-3.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-5.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-50.0%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on August 1, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for July 26 - August 1, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 07/26/19-08/01/19](/img/weekly-chart-0801.png "XMR Price Graph 07/26/19-08/01/19") 

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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