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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2021-01-25T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 91
title: "Issue 91: January 18 - 25, 2021"
---
<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://twitter.com/OKEx/status/1352487413654958082" target="_blank">Monero has been added as collateral option in OKEx' C2C loan service</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Outreach put out <a href="https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/why-monero-attracts-dev-talent.html" target="_blank">an article on why Monero attracts top talent</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The Spanish Monero podcast has released more episodes. <a href="https://anchor.fm/elmonero/episodes/9-Fungible-Ao-Nuevo-ep621j" target="_blank">Check them out here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.monerotalk.live/moneros-organic-growth-w-core-team-member-artic-mine" target="_blank">Monero Talk interviewed ArticMine about Monero’s organic growth</a>.</h4>
</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/204" target="_blank">anon: perfect peer to peer protocol</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/203" target="_blank">v1docq47 - video creation and translations into russian (february - july 2021)</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/200" target="_blank">mj part time coding - 3 months</a></p>
</div>

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

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/erciccione-website4.html" target="_blank">ErCiccione: 3 more months part time work on Getmonero.org (January-March)</a> by erciccione</p>
    <p>Raised <b>60.65 of 71</b> XMR (85%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2282729</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.801 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>25.4 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>19.47</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>14,093</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.19 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on January 25, 2021</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-01251.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$2,470,612,477</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$132.18</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>01/25/21</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="01/25/21">$138.58</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-11.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-17.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+125.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="01/25/21">€114.25</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-11.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-17.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+104.6%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="01/25/21">B0.00431102</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+0.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-32.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-41.5%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on January 25, 2021</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph</p>

![XMR Price Graph 01/18/21-01/25/21](/img/weekly-chart-01251.png "XMR Price Graph 01/18/21-01/25/21") 

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>

<div class="sponsors">

    <div class="sponsor">
        <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>
    </div>

    <div class="sponsor">
        <p><a href="https://dvchain.co/" target="_blank"><img src="/img/dv-chain-logo.png" alt="DV Chain Logo" class="dvchain"></a></p>
        <p class="text-center"><a href="https://dvchain.co/" target="_blank">DV Chain</a></p>
    </div>
</div>

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

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