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Table of Contents:

Recent News

There has been a myriad of scams utilizing various means. See some examples and stay safe: "PSA: DO NOT use the fake MyMonero Android app or mymonero < dot > co", "Cake Wallet was targeted by a sophisticated fraud recently", "One Monero user from Chinese community had been hacked 237.9xmr by fake Google play Mymonero wallet".

Monero GUI engineer dsc has been working on a brand new, ground-up light wallet. Introducing Feather wallet.

Vtnerd has released a terminal screensaver utilizing real time data from a Monero daemon.

The Locha Mesh tech demo recording has been released to the public.

Monero Outreach has released a calendar of Monero events for everyone to use.

There is a Monero tracking challenge puzzle, as of yet unsolved.

Upcoming Events

August 29, 2020 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

September 2, 2020 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel

September 6, 2020 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

CCS Proposal Ideas

Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.

Spanish localization proposal for the Monero Community

Norwegian translation of User guides & Moneropedia

Create Monero educational content in Spanish

Implementing New Range Proof Technique Bulletproofs+ in Monero

Compilation time reduction and housekeeping

CCS Proposals Need Funding

None. All funded! But keep a look out for proposals, or donate to the General Fund (donation address at the bottom of the Revuo).

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2171247

Hash rate: 1.594 GH/s

Median block size: 27.4 kB

Average Tx per block: 17.69

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 12,863

Block reward: 1.47 XMR

Data taken on August 23, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,613,936,565
Localmonero.co Street Price: $87.72

Monero (XMR) Price

08/23/20 Week Month Year
USD $91.26 0.0% +27.4% +11.5%
EUR €77.41 +0.6% +25.9% +6.1%
BTC B0.00782288 +2.1% +4.2% -0.7%

Data taken on August 23, 2020

XMR Price Graph for August 15-23, 2020

![XMR Price Graph 08/15/20-08/23/20](/img/weekly-chart-0823.png "XMR Price Graph 08/15/20-08/23/20") Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, miningpoolstats.stream, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co

Volunteer Opportunities

If you want to get involved in making Monero better, but aren’t sure how, check out the volunteer opportunities below.

Test Monero Core Software

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 on GitHub.

Getting Started with Helping Monero

If you are new to Monero and want to contribute, please check out this article about volunteering and contributing to Monero from the Monero Outreach Group.

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