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Table of Contents:

Recent News

Monero has had a network upgrade! CLSAG is now live. Please make sure to download the latest version of the Monero wallets.

For those who downloaded early, a small bug has caused some nodes to get stuck on a block. Please update to the newest version.

Upcoming Events

October 24, 2020 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting - #monero-community IRC channel

November 1, 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.

Lee Clagett (vtnerd) Full-Time Development 2020 Q4

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 in the future, or donate to the General Fund (donation address at the bottom of the Revuo).

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 2212258

Hash rate: 1.706 GH/s

Median block size: 91.8 kB

Average Tx per block: 25.59

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 9,748

Block reward: 1.36 XMR

Data taken on October 19, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $2,238,071,875
Localmonero.co Street Price: $124.88

Monero (XMR) Price

10/19/20 Week Month Year
USD $126.15 -3.2% +33.6% +131.8%
EUR €107.12 -3.2% +34.3% +119.9%
BTC B0.01073266 -3.2% +25.9% +56.7%

Data taken on October 19, 2020

XMR Price Graph for October 13 - 19, 2020

![XMR Price Graph 10/13/20-10/19/20](/img/weekly-chart-1019.png "XMR Price Graph 10/13/20-10/19/20") 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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