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title: Issue 7: May 2-9, 2019
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issuenumber: 7
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[<img src="/img/img-issue7.jpg" alt="Revuo Monero Weekly Issue 7 Image">](/issue-7.html)
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Revuo Monero Weekly: Week of May 2 - May 9, 2019.
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<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
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<ul class="contents">
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<li><a href="#news">Recent News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#events">Upcoming Events</a></li>
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<li><a href="#ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</a></li>
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<li><a href="#proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</a></li>
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<li><a href="#stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</a></li>
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<li><a href="#merchant">Monero-Accepting Non-Profit of the Week</a></li>
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<li><a href="#volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</a></li>
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<li><a href="#donate">Donate</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="news">Recent News</h3>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4><a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-transactions.html" target="_blank">Monero transactions have reached their all time high this past week</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bl1uai/the_defcon_monero_village_call_for_presentations/" target="_blank">The DefCon Monero Village Call for Presentations and Volunteers is now open</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4><a href="https://twitter.com/Trezor/status/1125429283697172482" target="_blank">Trezor.io now accepts payments in XMR</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/key-conference-private-cryptocurrency-held-135100005.html" target="_blank">Yahoo Finance reported on the Monero Konferenco that will be happening this June</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4>Logs from the Dev Meeting from May 5, 2019 <a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/blob/31ee489b3a57d930b91be50c4934e6b1612756d9/_posts/2019-05-05-logs-for-the-dev-meeting-held-on-2019-05-05.md" target="_blank">are available on GitLab</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4>There are two new updates for monero-pool, a Monero mining pool server written in C. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bkokrk/update_announcement_a_monero_mining_pool_server/" target="_blank">The first is optimizations and improvements</a>, and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bmcmqi/announcement_moneropool_a_special_new_update/" target="_blank">the second is a brand new feature which uses the --block-notify flag to do block notifications via signals</a>.
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4>XMR can now be used to buy & sell everything on <a href="https://weshopwithcrypto.com/supported-coins/" target="_blank">WSWC, a marketplace like eBay for cryptocurrency users</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4>Monero Coffee Chat stream from May 4, 2019 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGd_9QMwTA" target="_blank">is available on YouTube</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bkj6ag/monero_added_to_delta_exchange_derivative/" target="_blank">Monero added to Delta Exchange (not an endorsement)</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4>Monero Talk with Mohamed Fouda on Evaluating the Privacy Coin Space <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shEygxdSqeo" target="_blank">is available on YouTube</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bko08i/logs_from_yesterdays_meeting_of_the_monero/" target="_blank">Logs from Monero Localization Workgroup Meeting held on May 3, 2019 are posted</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<h4><a href="https://www.pinode.co.uk/monero-plug-and-play.html" target="_blank">PiNode has released an update with new options and an updated presync’d blockchain</a>
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</h4>
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</div>
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<h3 id="events">Upcoming Events</h3>
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<div class="event">
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<p class="date" markdown="1">May 11, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
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<p markdown="1">Community Workgroup Meeting</p>
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</div>
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<div class="event">
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<p class="date" markdown="1">May 13, 2019 (Monday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
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<p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting</p>
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<p class="date" markdown="1">May 14, 2019 (Tuesday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
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<p markdown="1">Monero GUI Meeting</p>
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</div>
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<div class="event">
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<p class="date">May 18, 2019 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
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<p>DefCon27 Workgroup Meeting</p>
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</div>
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<div class="event">
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<p class="date" markdown="1">May 19, 2019 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
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<p markdown="1">Dev Meeting</p>
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</div>
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<div class="event">
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<p class="date" markdown="1">May 23, 2019 (Thursday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
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<p markdown="1">Tini2p Dev Meeting</p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</h3>
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<p>Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.</p>
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<div class="proposal">
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<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/65" target="_blank">Funding To Produce, Write And Record An Entirely Original Rap/Hip-Hop Anthem Exclusively For Monero</a></p>
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</div>
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<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/63" target="_blank">BtcPayServer Monero Integration</a></p>
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</div>
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<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/58" target="_blank">Monero currency and blockchain statistics hub</a></p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</h3>
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<div class="proposal">
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<p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/midipoet-represent_Monero_at_the_Oslo_Freedom_Forum_2019.html" target="_blank">Monero representation at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2019</a> by midipoet</p>
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<p>Raised <b>21.01 of 40.00</b> XMR (53%)</p>
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<p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/dsc-2019-q2.html" target="_blank">GUI UX coding (3 months)</a> by dsc</p>
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<p>Raised <b>161 of 282.00</b> XMR (57%)</p>
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</div>
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<p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/xiphon-part-time.html" target="_blank">Xiphon part time coding (3 months)</a> by xiphon</p>
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<p>Raised <b>74.18 of 111.00</b> XMR (67%)</p>
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<p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/knueffelbund-gui-design-for-q2-2019.html" target="_blank">Knueffelbund GUI design for Q2 2019</a> by knueffelbund</p>
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<p>Raised <b>31.56 of 37.00</b> XMR (85%)</p>
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</div>
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<p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/ErCiccione-localizations.html" target="_blank">ErCiccione: Coordinator of the Localization Workgroup - March</a> by ErCiccione</p>
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<p>Raised <b>51.50 of 144.00</b> XMR (36%)</p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>
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<h4 class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>
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<div class="bcstats">
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<p>Block height: <b>1831097</b></p>
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<p>Median block size: <b>292.97 kB</b></p>
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<p>Hash rate: <b>327.214 MH/s</b></p>
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<p>Average Tx per block: <b>16.14</b></p>
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<p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>11737</b></p>
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<p>Block reward: <b>2.82 XMR</b></p>
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</div>
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<p class="note">Data taken on May 9, 2019</p>
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<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
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<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0509.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>
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<h4 class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>
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<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$1,089,114,039</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$64.51</b></div>
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<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
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<table class="price-table">
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<th>XMR to</th>
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<th>05/09/19</th>
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<th>Week</th>
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<th>Month</th>
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<th>Year</th>
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<td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
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<td data-th="05/09/19">$64.17</td>
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<td data-th="Week" class="red">-0.5%</td>
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<td data-th="Month" class="red">-9.8.8%</td>
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<td data-th="Year" class="red">-71.1%</td>
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</tr>
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<tr class="row3">
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<td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
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<td data-th="05/09/19">€57.31</td>
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<td data-th="Week" class="red">-0.6%</td>
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<td data-th="Month" class="red">-9.4%</td>
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<td data-th="Year" class="red">-69.4%</td>
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</tr>
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<td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
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<td data-th="05/09/19">Ƀ0.01051846</td>
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<td data-th="Week" class="red">-12.7%</td>
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<td data-th="Month" class="red">-22.2%</td>
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<td data-th="Year" class="red">-56.7%</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<p class="note">Data taken on May 9, 2019</p>
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<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for May 2 - May 9, 2019</p>
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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://minexmr.com/pools.html" target="_blank">minexmr.com</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>
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<h3 id="merchant">Monero-Accepting Non-Profit of the Week</h3>
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<a href="https://magicgrants.org" target="_blank"><img src="/img/magic-logo.png" alt="MAGIC Logo" class="merchant-img" id="magic"></a>
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<a href="https://magicgrants.org" target="_blank">Multidisciplinary Academic Grants in Cryptocurrencies (MAGIC)</a> is a non-profit that is focused on doing good in the world utilizing cryptocurrencies. Their mission includes such things as “providing undergraduate scholarships, research grants, and infrastructure grants, as well as hosting and participating in educational, scientific, or otherwise academic events.”
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They accept donations in Monero and other cryptocurrencies via Globee.
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<i>Check back next week for another merchant that accepts Monero for their goods and services.</i>
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<h3 id="volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</h3>
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<p>If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.</p>
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<p>If you know of any merchants or exchanges that are still using a long form payment ID, please let the community know so we can contact them and ask them to integrated addresses or subaddresses. Feel free to leave them in the comments of <a href="https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bib6zq/list_of_services_using_long_payment_ids_a_call/" target="_blank">this Reddit thread</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b5fe5j/psa_seeking_volunteer_reviewers_for_pow_randomx/" target="_blank">Seeking Volunteer Reviewers for PoW RandomX</a></p>
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</div>
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<div class="newsbyte">
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<p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/i2p-zero/i2p-zero/releases" target="_blank">Test I2P-Zero</a></p>
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<p>Download I2P Zero for your machine, follow the direction in the README, and report any issues to the Issue tracker on GitHub, or IRC channel #i2p-zero.</p>
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</div>
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<p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero" target="_blank">Test Monero Core Software</a></p>
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<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>
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</div>
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<h3 id="donate">Donate</h3>
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<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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