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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2020-05-30T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 62
title: "Issue 62: May 22 - May 30, 2020"
---

<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ul class="contents">
    <li><a href="#news">Recent News</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>Sarang Noether <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/gs8nsk/may_monthly_report_from_sarang_noether/" target="_blank">published his May monthly report</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>If you would like to test the upcoming GUI release, please <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/gs8fy8/gui_v01600_testers_needed_part_2_linux_macos/" target="_blank">follow the instructions here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Community members Andres and rottensox have released <a href="https://anchor.fm/elmonero/episodes/3-Diente-de-Len-eegqt0/a-a29mu07" target="_blank">another Spanish podcast covering Dandelion++ and other topics</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Cake Wallet released <a href="https://youtu.be/0aPICxtXDHk" target="_blank">a video showing how to use the exchange in their wallet</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero had another coffee chat - <a href="https://youtu.be/DJIWuryvReI" target="_blank">watch the recording on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk interviewed Riccardo ‘fluffypony’ Spagni and Naveen Jain on the launch of Tari’s testnet - <a href="https://youtu.be/at0szJ_9rIs" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>


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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">May 31, 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">June 3, 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">June 6, 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/148" target="_blank">Sarang: research funding for 2020 Q3</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/147" target="_blank">Swedish cli wallet</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/145" target="_blank">Monero Atomic Swaps research funding</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/144" target="_blank">Market Research</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/141" target="_blank">Norwegian translation of core part</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/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/91" target="_blank">Telegram bot for Monero-Jobs group</a></p>
</div>

<h3 id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="" target="_blank">Research post-quantum strategies for Monero</a> by Insight</p>
    <p>Raised <b>520.1 of 576</b> XMR (90%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2110141</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.397 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>21.1 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>16.57</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>13,016</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.65 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on May 30, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0530-2.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,171,724,885</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$65.98</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>05/30/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="05/30/20">$66.66</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+5.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+7.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-28.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="05/30/20">€60.00</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+3.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+5.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-28.0%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="05/30/20">B0.0069586</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+0.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-3.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-37.7%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on May 30, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for May 24 - May 30, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 05/24/20-05/30/20](/img/weekly-chart-0529.png "XMR Price Graph 05/24/20-05/30/20") 

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>

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