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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2020-04-24T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 57
title: "Issue 57: April 17 - April 24, 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>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. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigNWkXJk48" target="_blank">All can be seen here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgewky/how-a-random-guy-made-the-2-movie-in-america-for-dollar1000?utm_source=reddit.com" target="_blank">Vice wrote a piece on the work of Justin “sgp” Ehrenhofer</a> in getting the movie “Monero Means Money” to the top of the box office last week.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/g463jj/getmoneroorg_updated_migration_to_github_new_faq/" target="_blank">Another slew of getmonero.org updates is out</a>, including the transition of the repo back to github, an overhauled FAQ page, and more.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Monero Talk crew interviewed Roger Ver about Monero - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6XkiU_1Uy8" target="_blank">watch it on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>


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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">April 25, 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 29, 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">May 3, 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/138" target="_blank">Compilation time reduction and housekeeping</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/137" target="_blank">Translation of Mastering Monero into Brazilian Portuguese</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/91" target="_blank">Telegram bot for Monero-Jobs group</a></p>
</div>

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

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/xiphon-part-time-4.html" target="_blank">xiphon part-time coding (3 months)</a> by xiphon</p>
    <p>Raised <b>65.09 of 371</b> XMR (18%)</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/adrelanos-debian-package.html" target="_blank">Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years</a> by Patrick Schleizer</p>
    <p>Raised <b>40.04 of 73</b> XMR (55%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2084224</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.415 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>26.9 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>16.21</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>11,815</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.74 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on April 24, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0424.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,057,614,165</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$57.86</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>04/24/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="04/24/20">$60.35</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+7.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+28.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-10.7%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="04/24/20">€55.80</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+8.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+28.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-8.0%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="04/24/20">B0.00805088</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+0.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+14.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-35.3%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on April 24, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for April 18 - April 24, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 04/18/20-04/24/20](/img/weekly-chart-0424.png "XMR Price Graph 04/18/20-04/24/20") 

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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