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Table of Contents:

Recent News

Cake Wallet released an update to their software with a bug fix.

Bitsa Card added Monero as a way to refill your prepaid debit card.

Rehrar put out a sticker pack for Signal and Telegram - Isabella the Monero Girl.

Thunderosa from the Monero Outreach workgroup put out a Monero Calendar and is looking for feedback.

Blockchair’s Monero block explorer now has a Tor address.

Upcoming Events

February 23, 2020 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

February 26, 2020 (Wednesday) – 18:00 UTC

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

February 26, 2020 (Wednesday) – 19:00 UTC

Monero Konferenco [EU] Meeting - #monero-konferenco IRC channel

February 29, 2020 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

Proposal for evaluating censorship resistance with 1M5 integration

Monero Integrations Part 3

Mining Outreach

Part Time Research Atoc

A Monero-centric Merchant Marketplace

Telegram bot for Monero-Jobs group

BrandedGIFS-JB

CCS Proposals Need Funding

None. All funded. :) But keep a look out for proposals in the future, or donate to the General Fund (donation address at the bottom of the Revuo).

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2038947

Hash rate: 1.323 GH/s

Median block size: 7.92 kB

Average Tx per block: 11.39

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 8203

Block reward: 1.89 XMR

Data taken on February 21, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,425,807,986
Localmonero.co Street Price: $77.74

Monero (XMR) Price

XMR to 02/21/20 Week Month Year
USD $81.36 -13.9% +25.7% +66.2%
EUR €74.95 -14.1% +28.5% +73.7%
BTC B0.00843584 -7.8% +12.9% -32.2%

Data taken on February 21, 2020

XMR Price Graph for February 15 - 21, 2020

![XMR Price Graph 02/15/20-02/21/20](/img/weekly-chart-0221.png "XMR Price Graph 02/15/20-02/21/20") 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.

Test Monero Core Software

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.

Getting Started with Helping Monero

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

44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A

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