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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2019-04-04T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 2
title: "Issue 2; March 29 - April 4, 2019"
---

<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ul class="contents">
    <li><a href="#news">Recent News</a></li>
    <li><a href="#events">Upcoming Events</a></li>
    <li><a href="#proposals">CCS Proposals</a></li>
    <li><a href="#stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</a></li>
    <li><a href="#merchant">Monero Merchant of the Week</a></li>
    <li><a href="#volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</a></li>
    <li><a href="#donate">Donate</a></li>
</ul>

<h3 id="news">Recent News</h3>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b7s97g/some_generous_donors_topped_off_all_of_the/" target="_blank">All current proposals in CCS Funding Required have been fully funded by an anonymous donor</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/blob/989dfe4db6d25e64b997f203bcb9fa913ccc5120/_posts/2019-03-31-logs-for-the-dev-meeting-held-on-2019-03-31.md" target="_blank">Logs from the dev meeting on Monero Point Release from March 31 are availlable on GitLab</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b73rng/xmrto_not_serving_us_customers_for_the_time_being/" target="_blank">XMR.to not serving US customers for the time being</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        Monero Core software now allows the <a href="https://twitter.com/JEhrenhofer/status/1112745292301041664" target="_blank">freezing and thawing of specific outputs</a>, which can be useful for organizations such as non-profits, and anything else that requires “due diligence”.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://twitter.com/elkakai/status/1113139958716469249" target="_blank">Monero community donated 64 XMR to the Tor Project</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b6pbhj/monero_quickfacts_sheet_revised_212019/" target="_blank">The Monero Outreach Workgroup released an updated Monero Quick-Facts Sheet</a>
    </h4>
    <p>Quickfacts were revised on 2/1/19 and are now available in different languages.</p>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://github.com/monero-project/meta/issues/324" target="_blank">Join the community discussion about celebration Monero‘s 5th birthday on GitHub</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://www.monerooutreach.org/mine-to-support-the-network.php" target="_blank">The Monero Outreach Workgroup published a Public Service Announcement on protecting the network by mining</a>
    </h4> 
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        Monero Talk on the Italian government’s testing of an online blockchain voting system built on Monero – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLabc2nPE7o" target="_blank">available on YouTube</a>
    </h4>
</div>
 

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b7z8g0/monero_listed_on_tokenomy_exchange/" target="_blank">Monero is listed on Tokenomy Exchange</a></h4>
    <p>Supported trading pair is XMR/BTC.</p>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://medium.com/resistanceio/monero-wins-the-donation-contest-e1e7f771ac12" target="_blank">Monero Wins Resistance 15% Donation Contest</a>
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        Reddit user sech1 made <a href="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/494821900711886848/561498176973045770/nonces.png" target="_blank">a nonce distribution chart</a> which spans the last six forks.
    </h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>
        <a href="https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1111131198020112385" target="_blank">@tuurdemeester on Twitter used the Estibot tool to estimate the amount of searches cryptocurrencies are getting.</a>
    </h4>
    <p>Monero is quite high on the list.</p>
</div>

<h3 id="events">Upcoming Events</h3>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date">April 6, 2019 – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p>DefCon 27 Workgroup Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">April 8, 2019 – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">April 11, 2019 – 18:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Tini2p Dev Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">April 13, 2019 – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Community Workgroup Meeting</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">April 18th, 2019</p>
    <p markdown="1">Monero Birthday – 5 years old</p>
</div>

<h3 id="proposals">CCS Proposals</h3>

None. All funded. :) But keep a look out for proposals in the future, or donate to the General Fund (<a href="#donate">donation address</a> at the bottom of the Revuo).

<h3 id="stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</h3>

<h4 class="stat">Blockchain Stats</h4>

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>1806027</b></p>
    <p>Median block size: <b>292.97 kB</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>290.577 MH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>5.76</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>4152</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>2.95 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on April 4, 2019</p>

<h4 class="stat">Hashrate Pool Distribution</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0404.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

<h4 class="stat">Price & Performance</h4>

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap:  <b>$1,086,168,791</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$69.38</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th>XMR to</th>
    <th>4/4/19</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="03/29/19">$64.20</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+21.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+32.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-62.4%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="03/29/19">€57.20</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+22.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+33.8%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-58.8%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="03/29/19">Ƀ0.01303894</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-0.4%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+3.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="red">-47.7%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on April 4, 2019</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph for March 29 - April 4, 2019</p>

![XMR Price Graph 03/29/19-04/04/19](/img/weekly-chart-0404.png "XMR Price Graph 03/22/19-03/29/19") 

Sources: <a href="https://community.xmr.to/explorer/mainnet/" target="_blank">community.xmr.to</a>, <a href="https://moneroblocks.info/stats/transaction-stats" target="_blank">moneroblocks.info</a>, <a href="https://minexmr.com/pools.html" target="_blank">minexmr.com</a>, <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/monero/" target="_blank">bitinfocharts.com</a>, <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/" target="_blank">coingecko.com</a>, <a href="https://localmonero.co/" target="_blank">localmonero.co</a>

<h3 id="merchant">Monero Merchant of the Week</h3>

<a href="http://cloakvpn.com/" target="_blank"><img src="/img/cloakvpnlogo.jpg" alt="CloakVPN Logo" class="merchant-img" id="cloakvpn"></a>

<a href="http://cloakvpn.com/" target="_blank">Cloakvpn.com</a> is an VPN service using the OpenVPN protocol. CloakVPN encrypts your internet traffic and cloaks your actual location. CloakVPN accepts Monero and provisions users directly off the blockchain payments without needing any user information.

Check back next week for another merchant that accepts Monero for their goods and services.

<h3 id="volunteer">Volunteer Opportunities</h3>

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

<p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero" target="_blank">Test Monero Core Software</a></p>
<p>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 <a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero#compiling-monero-from-source" target="_blank">on GitHub</a>. </p>

<p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/i2p-zero/i2p-zero/releases" target="_blank">Test I2P-Zero</a></p>
<p>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.</p>

<p class="date"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b11aec/call_for_contributors_new_strings_for_monerujo_we/" target="_blank">Monerujo is looking for translators</a></p>
<p>If you speak any language beside English, Monerujo needs your help.</p>  

<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b5fe5j/psa_seeking_volunteer_reviewers_for_pow_randomx/" target="_blank">Seeking Volunteer Reviewers for PoW RandomX</a></p>

<h3 id="donate">Donate</h3>

<p markdown="1">If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, we encourage you to donate to the Monero General Fund, using the following address:</p>

<p class="address" markdown="1">44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A</p>

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