<h4><ahref="https://www.exodus.io/monero/"target="_blank">Monero is now available on Exodus wallet</a>
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<h4>Dr. Sarang Noether published his monthly research report for April - <ahref="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/34#note_5903"target="_blank">available on GitLab</a>
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4>LocalMonero now has a <ahref="https://localmonero.co/nojs/"target="_blank">no-JavaScript version</a>. Tor/I2P visits will load the no-JavaScript version by default.
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4><ahref="https://minko.to/"target="_blank">Minko</a>, a provably fair Monero game, <ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bhmpgk/astrobot_is_alive_or_so_does_he_think_on_minko/"target="_blank">has added AstroBot</a> that asks trivia questions and rewards correct answers</h4>
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bhp5j6/the_monero_ecosystem_now_has_a_chatroom_and_a/"target="_blank">The Monero Ecosystem project now has a chatroom and a website</a></h4>
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<h4>Breaking Monero Episode 11: Mailbag Episode by SamsungGalaxyPlayer - <ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1gdYWsvXDU"target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>
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<h4>Monero Talk about Lightning Network on Monero with Bernhard Breytenbach - <ahref="https://youtu.be/-jlsGevNdm4"target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>
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<divclass="newsbyte">
<h4><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bjer8z/xmrrureport_april/"target="_blank">XMR.RU team posted a report on their translation work for March</a>
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<h4><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bhedhg/monero_quickfacts_sheet_revised_212019_dutch_nl/"target="_blank">Monero Quick-Facts sheet revised 2/1/2019 is available in Dutch</a>
<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/58"target="_blank">Monero currency and blockchain statistics hub</a></p>
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<divclass="proposal">
<p><ahref="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/56"target="_blank">Korean Translations GUI & CLI by Xeagu</a></p>
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<h3id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>
<divclass="proposal">
<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/dsc-2019-q2.html"target="_blank">GUI UX coding (3 months)</a> by dsc</p>
<p>Raised <b>98.48 of 282.00</b> XMR (35%)</p>
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<divclass="proposal">
<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/xiphon-part-time.html"target="_blank">Xiphon part time coding (3 months)</a> by xiphon</p>
<p>Raised <b>18.10 of 111.00</b> XMR (16%)</p>
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<divclass="proposal">
<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/knueffelbund-gui-design-for-q2-2019.html"target="_blank">Knueffelbund GUI design for Q2 2019</a> by knueffelbund</p>
<p>Raised <b>25.55 of 37.00</b> XMR (69%)</p>
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<divclass="proposal">
<p><ahref="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/ErCiccione-localizations.html"target="_blank">ErCiccione: Coordinator of the Localization Workgroup - March</a> by ErCiccione</p>
<p>Raised <b>20.03 of 144.00</b> XMR (14%)</p>
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<h3id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>
<h4class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>
<divclass="bcstats">
<p>Block height: <b>1826047</b></p>
<p>Median block size: <b>292.97 kB</b></p>
<p>Hash rate: <b>283.135 MH/s</b></p>
<p>Average Tx per block: <b>13.76</b></p>
<p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>9878</b></p>
<p>Block reward: <b>2.84 XMR</b></p>
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<pclass="note">Data taken on May 2, 2019</p>
<h4class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><imgsrc="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0502.png"alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>
<h4class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>
<divclass="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,092,379,011</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$64.22</b></div>
<pclass="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
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<th>XMR to</th>
<th>05/02/19</th>
<th>Week</th>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Year</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<tddata-th="XMR to">USD</td>
<tddata-th="05/02/19">$64.16</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-5.1%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="green">+5.8%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-73.1%</td>
</tr>
<trclass="row3">
<tddata-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
<tddata-th="05/02/19">€57.41</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-5.2%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="green">+6.1%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-71.2%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tddata-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
<tddata-th="05/02/19">Ƀ0.01172669</td>
<tddata-th="Week"class="red">-5.7%</td>
<tddata-th="Month"class="red">-19.8%</td>
<tddata-th="Year"class="red">-55.7%</td>
</tr>
</table>
<pclass="note">Data taken on May 2, 2019</p>
<pclass="table-title">XMR Price Graph for April 26 - May 2, 2019</p>
<p>If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.</p>
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<p>If you know of any merchants or exchanges that are still using a long form payment ID, please let the community know so we can contact them and ask them to integrated addresses or subaddresses. Feel free to leave them in the comments of <ahref="https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bib6zq/list_of_services_using_long_payment_ids_a_call/"target="_blank">this Reddit thread</a>.</p>
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<p><ahref="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b5fe5j/psa_seeking_volunteer_reviewers_for_pow_randomx/"target="_blank">Seeking Volunteer Reviewers for PoW RandomX</a></p>
<p>Download I2P Zero for your machine, follow the direction in the README, and report any issues to the Issue tracker on GitHub, or IRC channel #i2p-zero.</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">on GitHub</a>. </p>
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<h3id="donate">Donate</h3>
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