Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of April 17 - April 24, 2020.

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Recent News

Moneroversary took place last week. There were many events including a deep dive into the ancient history of Monero, a coffee chat, a quiz game, and more. All can be seen here.

Vice wrote a piece on the work of Justin “sgp” Ehrenhofer in getting the movie “Monero Means Money” to the top of the box office last week.

Another slew of getmonero.org updates is out, including the transition of the repo back to github, an overhauled FAQ page, and more.

The Monero Talk crew interviewed Roger Ver about Monero - watch it on YouTube.

Upcoming Events

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

CCS Proposal Ideas

Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.

CCS Proposals Need Funding

xiphon part-time coding (3 months) by xiphon Raised 65.09 of 371 XMR (18%)

Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years by Patrick Schleizer Raised 40.04 of 73 XMR (55%)

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2084224 Hash rate: 1.415 GH/s Median block size: 26.9 kB Average Tx per block: 16.21 Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 11,815 Block reward: 1.74 XMR

Data taken on April 24, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,057,614,165

Localmonero.co Street Price: $57.86

Monero (XMR) Price

04/24/20 Week Month Year USD $60.35 +7.5% +28.1% -10.7% EUR €55.80 +8.0% +28.8% -8.0% BTC B0.00805088 +0.9% +14.3% -35.3%

Data taken on April 24, 2020

XMR Price Graph for April 18 - April 24, 2020

Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, miningpoolstats.stream, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co

Volunteer Opportunities

If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.

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 on GitHub.

If you are new to Monero and want to contribute, please check out this article about volunteering and contributing to Monero from the Monero Outreach Group.

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Donate

If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:

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