<h4>Core Team member, binaryFate, claimed he will be publishing a new <ahref="https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-community/20220116#c64346"target="_blank">General Fund report</a> soon.</h4>
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<h4>noot's CCS proposal to work on an ETH<->XMR atomic swap implementation <ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/noot-eth-xmr-atomic-swap.html"target="_blank">gets moved to funding required stage and fully funded in just a few hours</a>! Work in progress.</h4>
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<h4>selsta's CCS proposal to keep working on Monero development in a part-time fashion gets <ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/selsta-4.html"target="_blank">fully funded</a> in one day.</h4>
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<h4>LocalMonero updates its <ahref="https://localmonero.co/canary"target="_blank">canary</a> after some community members' concern over a <ahref="https://teddit.net/r/Monero/comments/s1qyf5/localmonero_dead_canary_the_dead_bird_just_means/"target="_blank">dead canary ASCII art</a>.</h4>
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<h4>Reddit user, OrangeFren, <ahref="https://incogsnoo.com/r/Monero/comments/s5hrgw/orangefrencom_instant_exchange_comparison_with/"target="_blank">seeks community feedback</a> on his brand-new website to compare rates across KYC-free coin swapping services. Check it out <ahref="https://orangefren.com/"target="_blank">here</a>.</h4>
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<h4>Reddit user, Unkn8wn69, shared a new <ahref="https://incogsnoo.com/r/Monero/comments/s5z1uy/moneroocean_telegram_bot_v010/"target="_blank">Telegram bot</a> to check MoneroOcean's mining statistics. It may be a useful <ahref="https://github.com/Unkn8wn69/moneroocean-telegram-bot/"target="_blank">tool</a> for miners</a>.</h4>
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<h4>Reddit user, ryitnoise, <ahref="https://incogsnoo.com/r/Monero/comments/sacuxe/monericacom_a_directory_for_a_circular_monero/"target="_blank">launched</a> a <ahref="https://monerica.com/"target="_blank">directory website</a> to accomplish a circular Monero economy just a week after announcing it.</h4>
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<h4><ahref="https://haveno.exchange/"target="_blank">Haveno DEX</a> announced they have found the team to work on their GUI client, posted a teaser of what their <ahref="https://nitter.ca/HavenoDEX/status/1484459250877440001"target="_blank">dark UI will look like</a> as well.</h4>
<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/273"target="_blank">Draft: Educational content for Monero plus kycnot and iseeyourcash maintenance</a>.</p>
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<p><ahref="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/280"target="_blank">v1docq47 - video creation and translations into russian (february - july 2022)</a>.</p>
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<h3id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>
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<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/MoneroKon-2022-CCS.html"target="_blank">MoneroKon 2022</a> by midipoet.</p>
<p>Raised <b>253.41 of 328.00</b> XMR</p>
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<h3id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>
<h4class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>
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<p>Block height: <b>2543168</b></p>
<p>Hash rate: <b>3.260 GH/s</b></p>
<p>Average Tx per block: <b>30.90</b></p>
<p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>22,993</b></p>
<p>Block reward: <b>~0.72 XMR</b></p>
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<pclass="note">Data taken on Jan 15, 2022</p>
<h4class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><imgsrc="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0122.png"alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></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 <ahref="https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source"target="_blank">here</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 Workgroup. </p>
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<h3id="donate">Donate</h3>
<pmarkdown="1">If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, you can send some piconeros to this XMR subaddress:</p>