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Moneroversary

The Monero Community will be celebrating Monero's 6th "birthday" (i.e. Moneroversary) on April 18th, 2020. See the schedule of events below.
Time Description
15:00 UTC Monero History ft. Diego Salazar
15:30 UTC Monero Research Lab Q&A ft. Sarang Noether, host Scott Anecito
16:00 UTC Monero Compliance Q&A ft. Dave Jevans (CEO of CipherTrace) & Justin Ehrenhofer, host John Murphy
16:30 UTC Monero Trivia, host Justin Ehrenhofer
17:00 UTC Monero Coffee Chat, host Doug Tuman
18:00 UTC Monero Meme Competition, host Justin Ehrenhofer
19:00 UTC Monero VR Happy Hour, host Diego Salazar - No VR headset required
19:30 UTC Monero Game Show (Monero Talk)
23:59 UTC Games, TBD (Jackbox.tv, Drawful 2, Cards Against Humanity, Secret Hitler)

Recent News

Satang exchange has added Monero, and there will be a fiat pairing.

Cake Wallet has an update, which changes the XMR.to flow within the app.

Monero is moving it’s repository for its website back to Github from Gitlab.

Core Team member binaryFate summarizes some of the most exciting things in Monero research and development.

Upcoming Events

April 18, 2020 (Sunday) - 15:00 UTC

Moneroversary - join on YouTube

April 19, 2020 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

April 22, 2020 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC

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

April 25, 2020 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

xiphon part-time coding

Compilation time reduction and housekeeping

Translation of Mastering Monero into Brazilian Portuguese

Persian-translation

Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years

[Monero Aligned] Proposal for 1M5 Integration as Proxy

Mining Outreach

Part Time Research Atoc

Telegram bot for Monero-Jobs group

BrandedGIFS-JB

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: 2079000

Hash rate: 1.226 GH/s

Median block size: 31.3 kB

Average Tx per block: 16.13

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 11551

Block reward: 1.75 XMR

Data taken on April 17, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $1,001,801,228
Localmonero.co Street Price: $56.17

Monero (XMR) Price

04/17/20 Week Month Year
USD $57.15 -2.3% +56.7% -17.7%
EUR €52.53 -1.8% +58.7% -14.5%
BTC B0.00802441 0.0% +18.3% -39.8%

Data taken on April 17, 2020

XMR Price Graph for April 11 - April 17, 2020

![XMR Price Graph 04/11/20-04/17/20](/img/weekly-chart-0417.png "XMR Price Graph 04/11/20-04/17/20") 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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If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:

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