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title: Issue 56: April 11 - April 17, 2020
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<p class="text-lead">Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of April 11 - April 17, 2020.</p>
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<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ul class="contents">
    <li><a href="#news">Recent News</a></li>
    <li><a href="#events">Upcoming Events</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="moneroversary">Moneroversary</h3>

The Monero Community will be celebrating Monero's 6th "birthday" (i.e. Moneroversary) on April 18th, 2020. See the schedule of events below.

<table class="moneroversary-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>Time</th>
    <th>Description</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="Time">15:00 UTC</td>
    <td data-th="Description"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigNWkXJk48" target="_blank">Monero History ft. Diego Salazar</a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="Time">15:30 UTC</td>
    <td data-th="Description"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigNWkXJk48" target="_blank">Monero Research Lab Q&A ft. Sarang Noether</a>, host Scott Anecito</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="Time">16:00 UTC</td>
      <td data-th="Description"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigNWkXJk48" target="_blank">Monero Compliance Q&A ft. Dave Jevans (CEO of CipherTrace) & Justin Ehrenhofer</a>, host John Murphy</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="Time">16:30 UTC</td>
      <td data-th="Description"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigNWkXJk48" target="_blank">Monero Trivia</a>, host Justin Ehrenhofer</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="Time">17:00 UTC</td>
      <td data-th="Description"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigNWkXJk48" target="_blank">Monero Coffee Chat</a>, host Doug Tuman</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="Time">18:00 UTC</td>
      <td data-th="Description"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigNWkXJk48" target="_blank">Monero Meme Competition</a>, host Justin Ehrenhofer</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="Time">19:00 UTC</td>
      <td data-th="Description"><a href="http://hub.link/ktcMqWR" target="_blank">Monero VR Happy Hour</a>, host Diego Salazar - No VR headset required</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="Time">19:30 UTC</td>
    <td data-th="Description">Monero Game Show (Monero Talk)</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="Time">23:59 UTC</td>
      <td data-th="Description"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPAA3A7Z4HI" target="_blank">Games</a>, TBD (Jackbox.tv, Drawful 2, Cards Against Humanity, Secret Hitler)</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<h3 id="news">Recent News</h3>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/fzyq1p/satang_exchange_has_added_monero/" target="_blank">Satang exchange has added Monero</a>, and there will be a fiat pairing.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/g0w0f7/update_cake_wallet_for_ios_version_3128_a_change/" target="_blank">Cake Wallet has an update</a>, which changes the XMR.to flow within the app.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://web.getmonero.org/2020/04/13/migration-github.html" target="_blank">Monero is moving it’s repository for its website back to Github from Gitlab</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Core Team member binaryFate <a href="https://twitter.com/binaryFate/status/1250496394634366978" target="_blank">summarizes some of the most exciting things in Monero research and development</a>.</h4>
</div>

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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">April 18, 2020 (Sunday) - 15:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Moneroversary - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YigNWkXJk48" target="_blank">join on YouTube</a></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>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">April 22, 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 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>

<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/139" target="_blank">xiphon part-time coding</a></p>
</div>

<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/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/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>

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

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2079000</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.226 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>31.3 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>16.13</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>11551</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.75 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on April 17, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0417.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,001,801,228</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$56.17</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>04/17/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="04/17/20">$57.15</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-2.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+56.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-17.7%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="04/17/20">€52.53</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+58.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-14.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="04/17/20">B0.00802441</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">0.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+18.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-39.8%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on April 17, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for April 11 - April 17, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 04/11/20-04/17/20](/img/weekly-chart-0417.png "XMR Price Graph 04/11/20-04/17/20") 

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>

<p markdown="1">If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:</p>

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