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Table of Contents:

Recent News

The bulletproofs+ audit has been completed. Some optimizations have even been found.

Monerujo released a new version, now including a few other coins as a means of sending (note: the coins are not natively supported in wallet, only to send out to via an exchange service).

Contributor Seth Simmons has written a blog post about Contributing to Monero.

Dr. Daniel Kim has uploaded another video titled Behavioral Finance, Cryptocurrency Markets - watch on YouTube.

Monero Talk interviewed Jeremy Kauffman, the CEO of LBRY about their project which aims to be a decentralized YouTube - watch on YouTube.

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

vtnerd 2021 Q1 Proposal

Serbian translation of Monero GUI Wallet, Monero Means Money

Project MoneroIsGreaterThanBitcoin - Times Square Billboard Outreach Program (TS-BOP)

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: 2299744

Hash rate: 2.019 GH/s

Median block size: 63.7 kB

Average Tx per block: 27.54

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 19,837

Block reward: 1.15 XMR

Data taken on February 18, 2021

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $4,533,558,792
Localmonero.co Street Price: $231.38

Monero (XMR) Price

02/18/21 Week Month Year
USD $253.39 +44.5% +62.0% +206.6%
EUR €209.66 +44.9% +61.9% +174.9%
BTC B0.00487866 +24.7% +14.2% -42.7%

Data taken on February 18, 2021

XMR Price Graph

![XMR Price Graph 02/08/21-02/18/21](/img/weekly-chart-0218.png "XMR Price Graph 02/08/21-02/18/21") 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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