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type: weekly
layout: weekly_old
date: "2021-05-10T00:00:00Z"
issuenumber: 99
title: "Issue 99: May 2-10, 2021"
---
<h3>Table of Contents:</h3>
<ul class="contents">
    <li><a href="#news">Recent News</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="#sponsor">Sponsors</a></li>
    <li><a href="#donate">Donate</a></li>
</ul>

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

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>On May 7, Monero hit its <a href="#price-stat">all-time high at $515</a>. Yay Monero!</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4><a href="https://github.com/Ragnaroek/mithril" target="_blank">Github user Ragnaroek has implemented RandomX in Rust</a>. Work in progress, but interesting and exciting.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero contributor rbrunner made a playground where cryptonoobs can play with a Monero-like coin. It’s all completely worthless so there is no worry of losing valuable money while you try it out. <a href="https://monerotech.info/Wallet" target="_blank">Check it out and show your cryptocurrency interested friends</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Feather Wallet released a new version, Beta-6, which now has Ledger support and much much more. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/n5j58a/feather_beta6_released_ledger_support_updater/" target="_blank">Full release notes here</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>Monero Talk interviewed Juraj Bednar on Bitcoin Mining Censorship - <a href="https://youtu.be/hEvVwiZBvxY" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</div>

<div class="newsbyte">
    <h4>They also hosted Monerotopia (every Sunday) where they interviewed the recent Monero star, Yessica Ortega Gentner, for wearing the Monero logo to her MMA fight - <a href="https://youtu.be/mozPWr4pz2c" target="_blank">watch on YouTube</a>.</h4>
</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/227" target="_blank">monero kubernetes operator</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/226" target="_blank">Proposal for a federated bazaar</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/225" target="_blank">Ben Evanoff's summer coding proposal</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/218" target="_blank">Danish translation of the Monero GUI Wallet and the Monero-site</a></p>
</div>

<div class="proposal">
<p><a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/213" target="_blank">Serbian translation of Monero GUI Wallet, Monero Means Money</a></p>
</div>

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

<p>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).</p>

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

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

<div class="bcstats">
    <p>Block height: <b>2358190</b></p>
    <p>Hash rate: <b>2.579 GH/s</b></p>
    <p>Average Tx per block: <b>35.36</b></p>
    <p>Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: <b>25,608</b></p>
    <p>Block reward: <b>1.03 XMR</b></p>
</div>
<p class="note">Data taken on May 10, 2021</p>

<h4 class="stat">XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks</h4>
<p><img src="/img/hashrate-pool-distribution-0510.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>$8,069,117,603</b><br>Localmonero.co Street Price: <b>$449.34</b></div>

<p class="table-title">Monero (XMR) Price</p>
<table class="price-table">
  <tr class="row1">
    <th></th>
    <th>05/10/21</th>
    <th>Week</th>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Year</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">USD</td>
    <td data-th="05/10/21">$448.56</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+10.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+63.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+610.9%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr class="row3">
    <td data-th="XMR to">EUR</td>
    <td data-th="05/10/21">€369.56</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+9.7%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+60.3%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+542.5%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td data-th="XMR to">BTC</td>
    <td data-th="05/10/21">B0.00799686</td>
    <td data-th="Week" class="green">+11.6%</td>
    <td data-th="Month" class="green">+69.5%</td>
    <td data-th="Year" class="green">+21.0%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p class="note">Data taken on May 10, 2021</p>

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

![XMR Price Graph 05/02/21-05/10/21](/img/weekly-chart-0510.png "XMR Price Graph 05/02/21-05/10/21") 

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://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/" target="_blank">coingecko.com</a>, <a href="https://localmonero.co/" 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 the volunteer opportunities below.</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">on GitHub</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 Group. </p>
</div>

<h3 id="sponsor">Sponsored by</h3>

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        <p><a href="https://localmonero.co/" target="_blank"><img src="/img/localmonero-logo.png" alt="LocalMonero.co Logo" class="localmonero"></a></p>
        <p class="text-center"><a href="https://localmonero.co/" target="_blank">LocalMonero.co</a></p>
    </div>

    <div class="sponsor">
        <p><a href="https://dvchain.co/" target="_blank"><img src="/img/dv-chain-logo.png" alt="DV Chain Logo" class="dvchain"></a></p>
        <p class="text-center"><a href="https://dvchain.co/" target="_blank">DV Chain</a></p>
    </div>
</div>

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

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