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Table of Contents:

Recent News

COMIT project has released a demo of their atomic swaps between Bitcoin and Monero.

CCS-funded contributor mj has posted his first report on his work.

Monero website contributor Erciccione has released a report on the changes he’s done.

The mods of the Monero subreddit are running a meme contest. Learn the rules here.

Monero Talk has interviewed several groups and people, including Lunar Crush (on Monero’s social aspects), Cryptozoidberg (an OG cryptonote developer who worked with van Saberhagen), and Davinci Jeremie (the original Bitcoin youtuber). Check them out!

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

Danish translation of the Monero GUI Wallet and the Monero-site

Add Monero to TxStreet

Icelandic translation of Monero GUI Wallet

Serbian translation of Monero GUI Wallet, Monero Means Money

Creating educational video series for awareness around Monero in Hindi

kysn - Translation of GUI Wallet, monero-site, Monero Means Money (subtitles), Sound Money, Safe Mode (subtitles) to Persian

CCS Proposals Need Funding

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

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2320056

Hash rate: 2.116 GH/s

Average Tx per block: 33.05

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 23,786

Block reward: 1.11 XMR

Data taken on March 18, 2021

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $4,093,773,637
Localmonero.co Street Price: $217.60

Monero (XMR) Price

03/18/21 Week Month Year
USD $229.20 +3.6% +3.5% +522.2%
EUR €192.41 +4.2% +5.2% +472.8%
BTC B0.00399913 +4.5% -11.2% -41.5%

Data taken on March 18, 2021

XMR Price Graph

![XMR Price Graph 03/12/21-03/18/21](/img/weekly-chart-0318.png "XMR Price Graph 03/12/21-03/18/21") 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.

If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:

44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A

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