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Table of Contents:

Recent News

RandomX's main developer, tevador, came up with a proposal to mitigate mining pool centralization.

Monerujo Wallet posted news with regards to their features wishlist: all their forthcoming additional functionalities have been fully funded, including SideKick. After a long wait, the community may have an accesible, interactive way to sign and broadcast transactions in an airgapped fashion.

Reddit user, HavenoDEX, posted a new blog post going over the revamped Haveno structure. Got any feedback for them? Make your opinion count in its thread.

MRL researcher, Rucknium, along with plowsof announced the creation of an index of XMR research papers.

Upcoming Events

February 27, 2022 (Sunday) – 18:00 UTC

MoneroKon 2022 Meeting - #monero-events IRC channel; Matrix room.

March 2, 2022 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting - #monero-research-lab IRC channel; Matrix room.

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

Monero Afghanistan Expansion Strategy.

mj's part time coding 2022 Q2.

Seraphis Wallet PoC.

CCS Proposals Need Funding

None; all funded for now.

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2566646

Hash rate: 2.964 GH/s

Average Tx per block: 29.00

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 21,644

Block reward: ~0.69 XMR

Data taken on Feb 24, 2022.

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $2,516,228,872.
Localmonero.co Street Price: $164.76.

Monero (XMR) Price

02/24/22 Week Month Year
USD $139.14 -22.8% -5.4% -36.5%
EUR €124.55 -21.4% -4.2% -31.0%
BTC ₿0.00386326 -5.5% -3.6% -14.5%

Data taken on Feb 24, 2022.

XMR Price Graph

![XMR Price Graph 02/17/22-02/24/22](/img/weekly-chart-0224.png "XMR Price Graph 02/17/22-02/24/22") Sources: miningpoolstats.stream; bitinfocharts.com; coingecko.com; localmonero.co statistics; localmonero.co blocks.

Non-Profit of the Week

Emerald Onion Logo Emerald Onion is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and transit internet service provider (ISP) based in Seattle, WA. Emerald Onion’s mission is to protect privacy, anonymity, access to information, and free speech online. To further that mission, Emerald Onion operates high capacity, fully open Tor exit routers with connectivity to the Seattle Internet Exchange. Emerald Onion envisions a world where access and privacy are the defaults; if we do not have human rights online, we will not have them offline, either.

Volunteer Opportunities

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

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 here.

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 Workgroup.

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