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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2020-09-06T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 74
title: "Issue 74; August 29 - September 6, 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/ilkwx9/august_monthly_report_from_sarang_noether/" target="_blank">SarangNoether put out his monthly report for August</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/inmukz/update_cake_wallet_for_ios_bug_fix_3130/" target="_blank">Cake Wallet has released an update for their software</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/monero-triptych.html" target="_blank">Monero Outreach has released an article on Triptych</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Space released an interview with the lead dev of Samourai Wallet for Bitcoin - <a href="https://youtu.be/_xk2Iy6f2VA" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Space released an interview with the CEO of CipherTrace regarding their recent claims of being able to track Monero - <a href="https://youtu.be/w5rtd3md11g" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>


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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">September 9, 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 12, 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">September 20, 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/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/Lovera-content-creator-in-spanish.html" target="_blank">Create Monero educational content in Spanish</a> by Lovera</p>
    <p>Raised <b>10 of 15</b> XMR (67%)</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/lh1008_spanish_localization.html" target="_blank">Spanish Localization</a> by lh1008</p>
    <p>Raised <b>4 of 10</b> XMR (40%)</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2181197</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>1.253 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>22.8 kB</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>17.63</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>12,569</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.44 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on September 6, 2020</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0906.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

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

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,407,264,308</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$76.41</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>09/06/20</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="09/06/20">$79.55</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-17.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-15.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+5.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="09/06/20">€67.22</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-16.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-15.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-0.8%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="09/06/20">B0.00779404</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-5.1%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-3.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+6.9%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on September 6, 2020</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for August 30 - September 6, 2020</p>

![XMR Price Graph 08/23/20-08/29/20](/img/weekly-chart-0906.png "XMR Price Graph 08/23/20-08/29/20") 

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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