Issue 18

_posts/2019-07-25-issue-18.md

+---
+title: Issue 18: July 18-25, 2019
+image: /img/twitter-card-issue-18.png
+---
+[<img src="/img/img-issue18.png" alt="Revuo Monero Weekly #18 Slide" class="img-lead">]({% post_url 2019-07-25-issue-18 %}.html)
+
+<p class="text-lead">Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of July 18 - July 25, 2019.</p>
+<!--more-->
+
+<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="#merchant">Monero-Accepting FOSS Project of the Week</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/cg3zih/cli_v01412_boron_butterfly_released/" target="_blank">CLI v0.14.1.2 'Boron Butterfly' released!</a> It’s a minor point release with mostly bug fixes for the previous point release.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4><a href="https://web.getmonero.org/downloads/" target="_blank">Monero GUI Windows Installer is now available for 0.14.1.0</a>.
+    </h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cf1fpf/tails_integration_for_the_gui_just_got_merged/" target="_blank">Tails OS integration for the GUI just got merged</a>.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cfsc2m/suraes_content_dump_konferenco_post_morto_budget/" target="_blank">Surae Noether gave his quarterly summary as well as his breakdown of the Monero Konferenco</a>.
+    </h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cfr2m1/umonerotipsbot_v08_release/" target="_blank">The Reddit Monero Tip Bot has a v0.8 release</a>.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4><a href="https://twitter.com/southxchange/status/1152963776901242881" target="_blank">SouthXchange now uses subaddresses for Monero</a>.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4>Monero Talk with Doug Bebber on Obfuscating the Monero Network Routing - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i02CIOzgv8Y" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4>Monero Talk with OSTIF Founder Derek Zimmer about their involvement with Monero’s audits (bulletproofs and RandomX) and what OSTIF does - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdE3w6RL1e8" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="events">Upcoming Events</h3>
+
+<div class="event">
+    <p class="date">July 27, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 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">July 28, 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">July 29, 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">July 30, 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>
+
+<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>
+
+<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/89" target="_blank">Continued funding for Surae for another quarter, Aug Sep Nov 2019</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="proposal">
+<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/87" target="_blank">rehrar-sarang WCC</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>
+
+<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>1886562</b></p>
+    <p>Median block size: <b>292.97 kB</b></p>
+    <p>Hash rate: <b>320.687 MH/s</b></p>
+    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>7.38</b></p>
+    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>5317</b></p>
+    <p>Block reward: <b>2.53 XMR</b></p>
+</div>
+<p class="note">Data taken on July 25, 2019</p>
+
+<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
+<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0725.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>
+
+<h4 class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>
+
+<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap:  <b> $1,382,776,611</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$80.42</b></div>
+
+<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
+<table class="price-table">
+  <tr class="row1">
+    <th>XMR to</th>
+    <th>07/25/19</th>
+    <th>Week</th>
+    <th>Month</th>
+    <th>Year</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
+    <td data-th="07/25/19">$80.85</td>
+    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+5.0%</td>
+    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-31.3%</td>
+    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-44.9%</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr class="row3">
+    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
+    <td data-th="07/25/19">€72.54</td>
+    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+5.8%</td>
+    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-29.7%</td>
+    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-42.2%</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
+    <td data-th="07/25/19">Ƀ0.00816515</td>
+    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+2.4%</td>
+    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-23.4%</td>
+    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-53.1%</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<p class="note">Data taken on July 25, 2019</p>
+
+<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for July 19 - July 25, 2019</p>
+
+![XMR Price Graph 07/19/19-07/25/19](/img/weekly-chart-0725.png "XMR Price Graph 07/19/19-07/25/19") 
+
+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="merchant">Monero-Accepting FOSS Project of the Week</h3>
+
+<a href="http://www.videolan.org/" target="_blank"><img src="/img/videolan.png" class="videolan-img" alt="VideoLAN Logo"></a>
+
+<a href="http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html#money" target="_blank">The VideoLAN project</a> is led by and composed of a team of volunteers who believe in the power of open source to rock the multimedia world. VideoLAN produces free software for multimedia, such as <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/" target="_blank">VLC media player</a>, <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/" target="_blank">VideoLAN Movie Creator</a> and other, released under the General Public License. <a href="http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html#money" target="_blank">The project accepts Monero for donations</a>.
+
+<i>Check back next week for another organization or project that accepts Monero for their goods and services.</i>
+
+<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>
+
+<p class="address" markdown="1">44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A</p>
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