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title: Issue 43: January 10-17, 2020
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<p class="text-lead">Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of January 10 - January 17, 2020.</p>
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<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>Getmonero.org has been updated. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/enlrvy/getmoneroorg_updated_improved_hangouts_page/" target="_blank">Check out the improvements here</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Website maintainer and localization contributor ErCiccione <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ep4eqx/do_you_speak_brazilian_portuguese_some_documents/" target="_blank">is requesting Brazilan Portuguese members of the community to translate some content on the website</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-model-t-is-fully-integrated-into-the-official-monero-client-b6f9bd31e7f" target="_blank">Trezor Model T is now fully integrated into the Monero reference client GUI</a>.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero’s new lead maintainer, Snipa, has been interviewed by Monero Talk - <a href="https://youtu.be/UgqYeVbeCjA" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.
    </h4>
</div>


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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 18, 2020 (Saturday) – 16:30 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">January 18, 2020 (Saturday) – 18:00 UTC</p>
    <p>Monero Coffee Chat - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxLNPJeEjPXOke55i5AIXA" target="_blank">watch online here</a></p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 22, 2020 (Wednesday) – 18:00 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">January 22, 2020 (Wednesday) – 19:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero Konferenco [EU] Meeting - <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/#monero-konferenco" target="_blank">#monero-konferenco</a> IRC channel</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 26, 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/116" target="_blank">v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (february - july 2020)</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/115" target="_blank">Locha Mesh, private transactions and sync over a resilient long-range radio mesh network</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/113" target="_blank">Cryptoeconomics Research</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/107" target="_blank">RandomX Thanks</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/102" target="_blank">WIP: Norwegian translation</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>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/88" target="_blank">BrandedGIFS-JB</a></p>
</div>

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

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/ErCiccione-website-jan-march.html" target="_blank">3 months part time work on Getmonero.org</a> by erciccione</p>
    <p>Raised <b>90.42 of 174.00</b> XMR (52%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2013580</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.147 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>22.8 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>12.21</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>8822</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.99 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on January 17, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0117.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,200,044,880</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$66.35</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>01/17/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="01/17/20">$69.08</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+18.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+44.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+53.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="01/17/20">€62.33</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+18.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+44.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+57.7%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="01/17/20">B0.00775778</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+8.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+18.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-37.6%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on January 17, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for January 11 - 17, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 01/11/20-01/17/20](/img/weekly-chart-0117.png "XMR Price Graph 01/11/20-01/17/20") 

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>

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