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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2020-02-14T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 47
title: "Issue 47: February 7-14, 2020"
---

<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>Tevador, the principal engineer of RandomX has made <a href="https://github.com/tevador/randomx-service" target="_blank">RandomX Service</a>, which provides a simple HTTP API to calculate RandomX proof of work (PoW).
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Getmonero.org will soon have an onion address, we just need to choose the vanity address we would like. <a href="https://www.strawpoll.me/19386207" target="_blank">Cast your vote now</a>!
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/f0wlcn/getmoneroorg_updated_added_mrl_writeup_removed/" target="_blank">Getmonero.org has been updated with more goodies, including full Weblate support for translators</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Monero Community Workgroup hosted another coffee chat on February 8 - <a href="https://youtu.be/4_Ig2f5gD9M" target="_blank">watch the recording on YouTube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://medium.com/newton-crypto/newton-adds-support-for-monero-xmr-and-tether-usdt-cd6f55532496" target="_blank">Newton, a cryptocurrency trading platform in Canada, has added Monero</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk has put out their fourth part to their 36C3 interview series, interviewing: Alexis Roussel, Gregor Žavcer & Sergey Simanovsky talking about the Fair Data Society and C3 in general - <a href="https://youtu.be/FEGlQmxCMFg" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">February 15, 2020 (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">February 19, 2020 (Wednesday) – 18:00 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">February 19, 2020 (Wednesday) – 19:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero Konferenco [EU] Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-konferenco" target="_blank">#monero-konferenco</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">February 23, 2020 (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/125" target="_blank">Monero Integrations Part 3</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/124" target="_blank">Mining Outreach</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/120" target="_blank">Part Time Research Atoc</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/117" target="_blank">A Monero-centric Merchant Marketplace</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/%20v1docq47-video-creation-translations-into-russian-(february-july-2020).html" target="_blank">v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (february - july 2020)</a> by v1docq47</p>
    <p>Raised <b>50.03 of 100.00</b> XMR (50%)</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/randybrito-locha-mesh.html" target="_blank">[Monero Aligned] Locha Mesh, a resilient long-range radio mesh network</a> by Randy Brito</p>
    <p>Raised <b>109.07 of 150.00</b> XMR (73%)</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/xiphon-part-time-3.html" target="_blank">xiphon part-time coding (3 months)</a> by xiphon</p>
    <p>Raised <b>37.96 of 307</b> XMR (12%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2033867</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.351 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>16 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>11.86</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>8559</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.91 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on February 14, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0214.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,633,178,673</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$89.54</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>02/14/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="02/14/20">$93.61</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+17.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+36.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+102.3%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="02/14/20">€86.46</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+18.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+40.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+111.0%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="02/14/20">B0.00914650</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+12.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+18.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-29.0%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on February 14, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for February 8 - 14, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 02/08/20-02/14/20](/img/weekly-chart-0214.png "XMR Price Graph 02/08/20-02/14/20") 

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://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/" 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><a href="https://localmonero.co/" target="_blank"><img src="/img/localmonero-logo.png" alt="LocalMonero.co Logo" class="localmonero"></a></p>

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

<h3 id="donate">Donate</h3>

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