Issue 93: February 3 - 8, 2021

Table of Contents:

Recent News

Feather Wallet released a new version of their beta with many new features.

Contributor Erciccione has written another report of his website update escapades. Plenty added this time around.

User feedback is wanted from the GUI team on their flow to send to multiple recipients in one transaction.

The Monero Python module has updated to version 0.8.

The Monero Space forum, which was down for maintenance and due to possible exploit, has returned.

Monero Talk interviewed Peter McCormack, a prominent Bitcoin podcaster with the topic of: “Why Bitcoin's Fungibility Issue Shouldn’t be Attacked by Monero Enthusiasts” - watch on YouTube.

Monero Space interviewed Vik Sharma of Cake Wallet about adding Bitcoin - watch on YouTube.

CCS Proposal Ideas

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

xiphon full-time coding

Marking vtnerd 2nd month 2020 q4 completed

kysn - Translation of GUI Wallet, monero-site, Monero Means Money (subtitles), Sound Money, Safe Mode (subtitles) to Persian

v1docq47 - video creation and translations into russian (february - july 2021)

mj part time coding - 3 months

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: 2292667

Hash rate: 1.882 GH/s

Median block size: 62.9 kB

Average Tx per block: 26.13

Weekly Moving Average Tx per day: 18,694

Block reward: 1.17 XMR

Data taken on February 8, 2021

XMR Blocks Distribution in last 1000 blocks

Hashrate Pool Distribution Pie Chart

Price & Performance

XMR Market Cap: $2,916,837,603
Localmonero.co Street Price: $149.14

Monero (XMR) Price

02/08/21 Week Month Year
USD $165.07 +15.1% +11.6% +104.0%
EUR €136.92 +15.2% +13.2% +85.2%
BTC B0.00351031 -18.2% -4.3% -57.1%

Data taken on February 8, 2021

XMR Price Graph

XMR Price Graph 02/03/21-02/08/21

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. 

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