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title: Issue 104: January 16-23, 2022
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issuenumber: 104
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<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="#ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</a></li>
    <li><a href="#proposals">CCS Proposals Need Funding</a></li>
    <li><a href="#stats">Price & Blockchain Stats</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>Core Team member, binaryFate, claimed he will be publishing a new <a href="https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-community/20220116#c64346" target="_blank">General Fund report</a> soon.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>noot's CCS proposal to work on an ETH<->XMR atomic swap implementation <a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/noot-eth-xmr-atomic-swap.html" target="_blank">gets moved to funding required stage and fully funded in just a few hours</a>! Work in progress.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>selsta's CCS proposal to keep working on Monero development in a part-time fashion gets <a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/selsta-4.html" target="_blank">fully funded</a> in one day.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>LocalMonero updates its <a href="https://localmonero.co/canary" target="_blank">canary</a> after some community members' concern over a <a href="https://teddit.net/r/Monero/comments/s1qyf5/localmonero_dead_canary_the_dead_bird_just_means/" target="_blank">dead canary ASCII art</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Reddit user, OrangeFren, <a href="https://teddit.net/r/Monero/comments/s5hrgw/orangefrencom_instant_exchange_comparison_with/" target="_blank">seeks community feedback</a> on his brand-new website to compare rates across KYC-free coin swapping services. Check it out <a href="https://orangefren.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Reddit user, Unkn8wn69, shared a new <a href="https://teddit.net/r/Monero/comments/s5z1uy/moneroocean_telegram_bot_v010/" target="_blank">Telegram bot</a> to check MoneroOcean's mining statistics. It may be a useful <a href="https://github.com/Unkn8wn69/moneroocean-telegram-bot/" target="_blank">tool</a> for miners</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Reddit user, ryitnoise, <a href="https://teddit.net/r/Monero/comments/sacuxe/monericacom_a_directory_for_a_circular_monero/" target="_blank">launched</a> a <a href="https://monerica.com/" target="_blank">directory website</a> to accomplish a circular Monero economy just a week after announcing it.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://haveno.exchange/" target="_blank">Haveno DEX</a> announced they have found the team to work on their GUI client, posted a teaser of what their <a href="https://nitter.ca/HavenoDEX/status/1484459250877440001" target="_blank">dark UI will look like</a> as well.</h4>
</div>


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

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 26, 2022 (Wednesday) – 16:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Farcaster XMR<->BTC Swap Dev Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-swap" target="_blank">#monero-swap</a> IRC channel; <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-swap:monero.social" target="_blank">Matrix room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 26, 2022 (Wednesday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Research Lab Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-research-lab" target="_blank">#monero-research-lab</a> IRC channel; <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-research-lab:monero.social" target="_blank">Matrix room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 29, 2022 (Saturday) – 17:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Dev Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-dev" target="_blank">#monero-dev</a> IRC channel; <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-dev:monero.social" target="_blank">Matrix room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 30, 2022 (Sunday) – 16:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">Community Workgroup Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-community" target="_blank">#monero-community</a> IRC channel; <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-community:monero.social" target="_blank">Matrix room</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="event">
    <p class="date" markdown="1">January 30, 2022 (Sunday) – 18:00 UTC</p>
    <p markdown="1">MoneroKon 2022 Meeting - <a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#monero-events" target="_blank">#monero-events</a> IRC channel; <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#monero-events:monero.social" target="_blank">Matrix room</a>.</p>
</div>

<h3 id="ideas">CCS Proposal Ideas</h3>

<p>Below you can find recent CCS proposal ideas open for discussion.</p>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/273" target="_blank">Draft: Educational content for Monero plus kycnot and iseeyourcash maintenance</a>.</p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/280" target="_blank">v1docq47 - video creation and translations into russian (february - july 2022)</a>.</p>
</div>

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

<div class="proposal">
    <p><a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/MoneroKon-2022-CCS.html" target="_blank">MoneroKon 2022</a> by midipoet.</p>
    <p>Raised <b>253.41 of 328.00</b> XMR</p>
</div>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2543168</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>3.260 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>30.90</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>22,993</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>~0.72 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on Jan 15, 2022</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/static/revuo/img/content/hashrate-pool-distribution-0122.png" alt="Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart"/></p>

<h4 class="stat" id="price-stat">Price & Performance</h4>

<div class="price-intro">XMR Market Cap: <b>$2,785,511,680</b><br/>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$171.63</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>01/22/21</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="01/12/22">$154.05</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-29.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-27.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+12.9%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="01/22/22">€135.79</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-29.0%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="red">-27.2%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+21.2%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="01/22/22">₿0.00434820</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="red">-13.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+4.9%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+5%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on Jan 22, 2022</p>

<p class="table-title">XMR Price Graph</p>

![XMR Price Graph 01/16/22-01/22/22](/static/revuo/img/content/weekly-chart-0122.png "XMR Price Graph 01/16/22-01/22/22") 

Sources: <a href="https://melo.tools/explorer/mainnet/" target="_blank">melo.tools</a>; <a href="https://moneroblocks.info/stats/transaction-stats" target="_blank">moneroblocks.info</a>; <a href="https://miningpoolstats.stream/monero" target="_blank">miningpoolstats.stream</a>; <a href="https://bitinfocharts.com/monero/" target="_blank">bitinfocharts.com</a>; <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/monero" target="_blank">coingecko.com</a>; <a href="https://localmonero.co/statistics" target="_blank">localmonero.co</a>.

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

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

<div class="newsbyte">
    <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">here</a>. </p>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <p class="date"><a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero" target="_blank">Getting Started with Helping Monero</a></p>
    <p>If you are new to Monero and want to contribute, please check out <a href="https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/getting-started-helping-monero.php" target="_blank">this article about volunteering and contributing to Monero</a> from the Monero Outreach Workgroup. </p>
</div>

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

<p markdown="1">If you enjoy this publication and want to support it, you can send some piconeros to this XMR subaddress:</p>

<p class="address" markdown="1">89Esx7ZAoVcD9wiDw57gxgS7m52sFEEbQiFC4qq18YZy3CdcsXvJ67FYdcDFbmYEGK7xerxgmDptd1C2xLstCbgF3RUhSMT</p>

<p><a href="monero:89Esx7ZAoVcD9wiDw57gxgS7m52sFEEbQiFC4qq18YZy3CdcsXvJ67FYdcDFbmYEGK7xerxgmDptd1C2xLstCbgF3RUhSMT" class="qr"><img src="/static/revuo/img/content/donate-monero.jpg"/></a></p>

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