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Table of Contents:

Recent News

Initial Monero Socks support for Tor and i2p has been merged

I2P-zero, a small-footprint, zero-dependency installation of I2P, which can be easily bundled with Monero software, is available for download and testing

The future of Monero's PoW was discussed in 2.5 hour dev meeting on March 24, 2019

Meeting logs are available on GitLab. If you do not have the time to read it all, OsrsNeedsF2P kindly summarized the logs for you on Reddit (see comments).

Pure Rust Monero library (the first version) released on GitHub by h4sh3d

Monero gets listed on KuCoin

Supported trading pairs include XMR/BTC and XMR/ETH.

GUI is now translated in 8 new languages

Monero GUI is now available in Kurdish, Bengali, Persian, Irish, Urdu, Zulu Greek and Nepali.

Monero NYC Meetup recorded session from March 21 is available on Youtube

Monero Talk with Kristy-Leigh Minehan on XMR's strategy for preserving a decentralized mining network to remain as censorship resistant digital cash – available on YouTube

Monero Talk on RandomX by October with Howard Chu, Tevador and Needmoney90 – available on YouTube

Binance Research released a report discussing the effects of forking out ASIC miners

Monero Python module for handling Monero cryptocurrency has officially joined the Monero Ecosystem Project

An on-chain, non-custodial, open source Monero tipping bot has been launched - testnet only for now

Monerobox 2.0 is now available for purchase on Monerobox.store.

Read the product info on Medium.

The Tor Project now accepts Monero for donations

New guide for Pootle, the localization platform, is available on GitHub for translators.

For new users - How to choose a Monero wallet (by anhdres)

Upcoming Events

March 30, 2019 – 17:00 UTC

Community Workgroup Meeting

April 1, 2019 – 17:00 UTC

Research Lab Meeting

April 6, 2019 – 17:00 UTC

DefCon 27 Workgroup Meeting

April 7, 2019 – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting

April 18th, 2019

Monero Birthday – 5 years old

CCS Proposals

El00ruobuob part time for three months (January to March) by el00ruobuob

Raised 16.66 of 45.00 XMR (37%)

Defcon Monero Party 2019 by pwrcycle

Raised 14.19 of 57.00 XMR (25%)

Sarang: research funding for 2019 Q2 by Sarang Noether

Raised 423.83 of 638.00 XMR (66%)

Moneromooo coding, april 2019 by moneromooo

Raised 264.61 of 410.00 XMR (65%)

Surae Funding for Q2 2019 by Surae N

Raised 154.69 of 618.00 XMR (25%)

V1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (february – july) by v1docq47

Raised 0.16 of 46.80 XMR (<1%)

Price & Blockchain Stats

Blockchain Stats

Block height: 1801077

Median block size: 292.97 kB

Hash rate: 292.896 MH/s

Average Tx per block: 5.05

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 3610

Block reward: 2.98 XMR

Data taken on March 29, 2019

Hashrate Pool Distribution

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $884,161,809
Localmonero.co Street Price: $56.41

Monero (XMR) Price

XMR to: 3/29/19 Week Month Year
USD $52.37 +0.1% +9.4% -73.7%
EUR €46.65 +1.4% +11.0% -71.1%
BTC Ƀ0.01294949 -1.4% +3.0% -48.4%

Data taken on March 29, 2019

XMR Price Graph for March 22 - 29, 2019

![XMR Price Graph 03/22/19-03/29/19](/img/weekly-chart-0329.png "XMR Price Graph 03/22/19-03/29/19") Sources: community.xmr.to, moneroblocks.info, minexmr.com, bitinfocharts.com, coingecko.com, localmonero.co

Monero Merchant of the Week

Cypher Market Logo Cypher Market is a business with a social vision, to experiment with new, sustainable, commerce-driven ways to support FOSS projects. They work with many FOSS projects (including various Monero workgroups) to sell merchandise and donate to them 50% of the profits. Find them at cyphermarket.com. Check back next week for another merchant that accepts Monero for their goods and services. *Disclaimer: Cypher Market is owned by the author of the Revuo.*

Volunteer Opportunities

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

Monerujo is looking for translators

If you speak any language beside English, Monerujo needs your help.

Seeking Volunteer Reviewers for PoW RandomX

Test I2P-Zero

Download I2P Zero for your machine, follow the direction in the README, and report any issues to the Issue tracker on GitHub, or IRC channel #i2p-zero.

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