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+title: Issue 76: September 14 - 21, 2020
+image: /img/twitter-card-issue-76.png
+issuenumber: 76
+---
+[<img src="/img/img-issue76.png" alt="Revuo Monero Weekly #76 Slide" class="img-lead">]({% post_url 2020-09-21-issue-76 %}.html)
+
+<p class="text-lead">Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of September 14 - 21, 2020.</p>
+<!--more-->
+
+<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="news">Recent News</h3>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/iv9qqh/cli_v01700_oxygen_orion_released/" target="_blank">The CLI tools for version 0.17.0.0 Oxygen Orion, has been released</a>. This version includes CLSAG and it is recommended that everyone upgrade before the hard fork on October 17th. The GUI release is forthcoming.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4>Perkins Coie, an international law firm, has put out a white paper presenting a case for why privacy coins do not go against current KYC/AML laws, meaning exchange and governments should not fear them. <a href="https://www.perkinscoie.com/en/news-insights/anti-money-laundering-regulation-of-privacy-enabling-cryptocurrencies.html" target="_blank">Read the report on their website</a>.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/iufpc3/getmoneroorg_updated_new_blog_posts_improved/" target="_blank">More updates for the website</a>. Included are new blog posts, FAQ question, fixed accessibility issues, and more.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4>Diego ‘rehrar’ Salazar published his <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/iteivi/rehrar_transparency_report/" target="_blank">transparency report on his work</a>.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<div class="newsbyte">
+    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/iwdtqs/the_new_release_of_the_gui_wallet_is_almost_ready/" target="_blank">The forthcoming GUI release needs translators</a>. Please consider helping out if you speak one of the supported languages.</h4>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="events">Upcoming Events</h3>
+
+<div class="event">
+    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 23, 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">September 26, 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">October 4, 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/173" target="_blank">Tipxmr.live</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="proposal">
+<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/172" target="_blank">Core website translation to Serbian</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="proposal">
+<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/168" target="_blank">Atomic Swap implementation funding</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="proposal">
+<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/166" target="_blank">Make Yaml valid</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="proposal">
+<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/156" target="_blank">Implementing New Range Proof Technique Bulletproofs+ in Monero</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>
+
+<h3 id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>
+
+<div class="proposal">
+    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/Translation-getmonero-german.html" target="_blank">Translation of the Moneropedia and User Guides into German</a> by Wobole</p>
+    <p>Raised <b>10.46 of 28.5</b> XMR (37%)</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="proposal">
+    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/monerofm.html" target="_blank">Monero FM (community run radio project)</a> by rehrar and needmoney90</p>
+    <p>Raised <b>20.21 of 35</b> XMR (58%)</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="proposal">
+    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/avis-moneropedia-userguides.html" target="_blank">Norwegian translation of User guides and Moneropedia</a> by Chris Avis</p>
+    <p>Raised <b>3.38 of 29.4</b> XMR (11%)</p>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>
+
+<h4 class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>
+
+<div class="bcstats">
+    <p>Block height: <b>2192003</b></p>
+    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.312 GH/s</b></p>
+    <p>Median block size: <b>38.7 kB</b></p>
+    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>18.61</b></p>
+    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>13,374</b></p>
+    <p>Block reward: <b>1.41 XMR</b></p>
+</div>
+<p class="note">Data taken on September 21, 2020</p>
+
+<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
+<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0921.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>
+
+<h4 class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>
+
+<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,595,305,770</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$86.45</b></div>
+
+<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
+<table class="price-table">
+  <tr class="row1">
+    <th></th>
+    <th>09/21/20</th>
+    <th>Week</th>
+    <th>Month</th>
+    <th>Year</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
+    <td data-th="09/21/20">$90.10</td>
+    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.8%</td>
+    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-4.9%</td>
+    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+24.2%</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr class="row3">
+    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
+    <td data-th="09/21/20">€76.58</td>
+    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.8%</td>
+    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-4.7%</td>
+    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+16.3%</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
+    <td data-th="09/21/20">B0.00859335</td>
+    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-1.8%</td>
+    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+5.9%</td>
+    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+18.3%</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<p class="note">Data taken on September 21, 2020</p>
+
+<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for September 15 - 21, 2020</p>
+
+![XMR Price Graph 09/14/20-09/21/20](/img/weekly-chart-0921.png "XMR Price Graph 09/14/20-09/21/20") 
+
+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>
+
+<p class="address" markdown="1">44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A</p>
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