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Recent News

CLI v0.15.0.5 'Carbon Chamaeleon' has been released.

Sarang Noether released a preprint of the Triptych-2 paper: efficient proofs for confidential transactions.

Vik Sharma from Cake Wallet did an interview with Girl Gone Crypto - available on YouTube.

Monero Talk interviews Desi-Rae of Crypto Ramble on the importance of privacy - available on YouTube.

Monero Talk interviews Lawrence H. White on whether the USA needs a digital national currency - available on YouTube.

Upcoming Events

March 22, 2020 (Sunday) – 17:00 UTC

Dev Meeting - #monero-dev IRC channel

March 25, 2020 (Wednesday) – 18:00 UTC

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

March 25, 2020 (Wednesday) – 19:00 UTC

Monero Konferenco [EU] Meeting - #monero-konferenco IRC channel

March 28, 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.

Persian-translation

Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years

Norwegian translation of webplate + footers + nav. menu

[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: 2058989

Hash rate: 1.190 GH/s

Median block size: 27.4 kB

Average Tx per block: 15.16

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 10850

Block reward: 1.82 XMR

Data taken on March 20, 2020

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $713,138,239
Localmonero.co Street Price: $40.82

Monero (XMR) Price

03/20/20 Week Month Year
USD $40.38 +9.7% -48.3% -25.8%
EUR €37.51 +13.6% -48.1% -21.3%
BTC B0.00652103 -1.7% -19.8% -51.6%

Data taken on March 20, 2020

XMR Price Graph for March 14 - 20, 2020

![XMR Price Graph 03/14/20-03/20/20](/img/weekly-chart-0320.png "XMR Price Graph 03/14/20-03/20/20") 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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