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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2020-12-14T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 87
title: "Issue 87: December 5 - 14, 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><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/kd59xm/cli_gui_v01717_oxygen_orion_released/" target="_blank">GUI and CLI release v0.17.1.7 is out</a> and users are encouraged to upgrade. It provides further mitigations to the ongoing network attacks. More point releases are expected in the future that will contain further mitigations.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>v1docq47 has posted his <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/k9ocwc/october_november_monthly_report_from_v1docq47_ccs/" target="_blank">October/November report for his CCS focused on Russian content</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>TailsOS, a privacy focused operating system, <a href="https://twitter.com/tails_live/status/1336705918168428545?s=21" target="_blank">has stated that Monero is the top donated cryptocurrency to their project</a></h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero community member Seth Simmons has written an <a href="https://sethsimmons.me/posts/moneros-ongoing-network-attack/" target="_blank">excellent article summarizing the recent attacks on Monero</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>MoneroTalk did an interview with Mitchell Krawiec-Thayer, Adam Corbo & Brandon Goodell of Noncesense Research Lab about post-quantum options for Monero - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02QoI4ZlnU" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a></h4>
</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/190" target="_blank">Translation of GUI Wallet, monero-site, Monero Means Money (subtitles), Sound Money, Safe Mode (subtitles) to Polish</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/185" target="_blank">Mastering Monero Serbian Translation</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/182" target="_blank">Mastering Monero Spanish Translation</a></p>
</div>

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

None. All funded. :) But keep a look out for proposals in the future, or donate to the General Fund (<a href="#donate">donation address</a> at the bottom of the Revuo).

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2252439</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.660 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>34.6 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>26.92</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>19,371</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.26 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on December 14, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-1214.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$2,748,771,408</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$148.28</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>12/14/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="12/14/20">$154.71</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+11.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+32.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+201.9%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="12/14/20">€127.28</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+11.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+28.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+176.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="12/14/20">B0.00795310</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+9.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+9.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+9.7%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on December 14, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for December 7 - December 14, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 12/07/20-12/14/20](/img/weekly-chart-1214.png "XMR Price Graph 12/07/20-12/14/20") 

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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