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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2020-01-02T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 41
title: "Issue 41; December 26, 2019 - January 2, 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>

<table class="moneroversary-table">
  <tbody><tr class="row1">
    <th>36C3 Recap</th>
  </tr>
</tbody></table>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Day 1 Stream - <a href="https://youtu.be/Xu_QH6oi7oA" target="_blank">watch on Youtube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Day 2 Stream - <a href="https://youtu.be/mc51zyflpa8" target="_blank">watch on Youtube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Day 3 Stream - <a href="https://youtu.be/Krftz3Y39sg" target="_blank">watch on Youtube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Day 4 Stream - <a href="https://youtu.be/t5qZbiplp_E" target="_blank">watch on Youtube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<table class="moneroversary-table">
  <tbody><tr class="row1">
    <th>Other News</th>
  </tr>
</tbody></table>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Tevador, principal developer of RandomX, has made a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/eiioue/monero_is_plagued_by_poor_journalism/" target="_blank">post correcting common errors in journalism about Monero</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://github.com/jtgrassie/xmrpc" target="_blank">Jtgrassie made a tool for calling Monero JSON RPC interfaces</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>The XMR.RU team released their <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/eh3sk8/xmrrureport_december/" target="_blank">December report</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.exodus.io/monero-wallet" target="_blank">Exodus has added Monero to its mobile wallet</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Pedro “M-alMen” Gaspar presented about Monero in October of this year at Ubucon in Portugal. <a href="https://youtu.be/30o3Joftk2g" target="_blank">His presentation was recently released on YouTube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>MoneroTalk interviewed Amir Taaki about the need for a purpose and vision in crypto - <a href="https://youtu.be/6BHOplumirw" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>


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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 4, 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">January 8, 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">January 12, 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/107" target="_blank">RandomX Thanks</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/102" target="_blank">WIP: Norwegian translation</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/sarang-2020-q1.html" target="_blank">Sarang: research funding for 2020 Q1</a> by Sarang Noether</p>
    <p>Raised <b>515.78 of 695.00</b> XMR (74%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2002936</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.088 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>16.1 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>10.44</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>7614</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.03 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on January 2, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0102.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$830,718,018</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$45.90</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>01/02/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="01/02/20">$47.88</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+6.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-10.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-6.8%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="01/02/20">€42.95</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+5.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-10.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-5.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="01/02/20">B0.00667951</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+6.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-8.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-49.8%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on January 2, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for December 27, 2019 - January 2, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 12/27/19-01/02/20](/img/weekly-chart-0102.png "XMR Price Graph 12/27/19-01/02/20") 

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://minexmr.com/pools.html" target="_blank">minexmr.com</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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