<h4><ahref="https://twitter.com/OKEx/status/1352487413654958082"target="_blank">Monero has been added as collateral option in OKEx' C2C loan service</a>.</h4>
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<h4>Monero Outreach put out <ahref="https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/why-monero-attracts-dev-talent.html"target="_blank">an article on why Monero attracts top talent</a>.</h4>
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<h4>The Spanish Monero podcast has released more episodes. <ahref="https://anchor.fm/elmonero/episodes/9-Fungible-Ao-Nuevo-ep621j"target="_blank">Check them out here</a>.</h4>
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<h4><ahref="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>
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<h3id="ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</h3>
<p>Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.</p>
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<p><ahref="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/204"target="_blank">anon: perfect peer to peer protocol</a></p>
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<p><ahref="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>
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<p><ahref="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/200"target="_blank">mj part time coding - 3 months</a></p>
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<h3id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>
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<p><ahref="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>
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<h3id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>
<h4class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>
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<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>
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<pclass="note">Data taken on January 25, 2021</p>
<h4class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><imgsrc="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-01251.png"alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>
<h4class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>
<divclass="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$2,470,612,477</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$132.18</b></div>
<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 <ahref="https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source"target="_blank">on GitHub</a>. </p>
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<pclass="date"><ahref="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 <ahref="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>
<pmarkdown="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>