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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2020-04-11T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 55
title: "Issue 55: April 3 - April 11, 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><a href="https://web.getmonero.org/library/Zero-to-Monero-2-0-0.pdf" target="_blank">The second edition of Zero to Monero is published</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Monero Community workgroup released a documentary movie about Monero. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/fyin5n/film_premiere_monero_means_money_cryptocurrency/" target="_blank">You can find more information here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/fyaq8e/xmrrureport_march/" target="_blank">XMR.ru released their monthly report for March</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Monero Community workgroup ran another Coffee Chat - <a href="https://youtu.be/diiuHfPkn9s" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk interviewed Naomi Brockwell about why competition is good for the ecosystem - <a href="https://youtu.be/RtyXyOgmHS0" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Crypto Vigilante interviewed Justin Ehrenhofer about Monero’s roadmap and fungibility - <a href="https://youtu.be/SDefqqOfp0Q" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">April 11, 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">April 15, 2020 (Wednesday) – 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">April 19, 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/132" target="_blank">Persian-translation</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/130" target="_blank">Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/129" target="_blank">Norwegian translation of webplate + footers + nav. menu</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/127" target="_blank">[Monero Aligned] Proposal for 1M5 Integration as Proxy</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/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="" target="_blank">ErCiccione: 3 more months part time work on Getmonero.org</a> by erciccione</p>
    <p>Raised <b>36.33 of 180.00</b> XMR (20%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2074662</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.233 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>25.8 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>17.10</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>12362</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.77 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on April 11, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0412.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$936,561,688</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$50.72</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>04/11/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="04/11/20">$53.48</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+1.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-1.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-24.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="04/11/20">€48.92</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-0.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+1.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-22.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="04/11/20">B0.00778648</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+13.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-41.7%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on April 11, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for April 5 - April 11, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 04/05/20-04/11/20](/img/weekly-chart-0411.png "XMR Price Graph 04/05/20-04/11/20") 

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>

<h3 id="sponsor">Sponsored by</h3>

<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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