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title: Revuo Monero Weekly - March 29, 2019
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### Recent News

<a href="https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/5090" target="_blank">Initial Monero Socks support for Tor and i2p has been merged</a>

<a href="https://github.com/i2p-zero/i2p-zero/releases" target="_blank">I2P-zero, a small-footprint, zero-dependency installation of I2P, which can be easily bundled with Monero software, is available for download and testing</a>

The future of Monero's PoW was discussed in 2.5 hour dev meeting on March 24, 2019. Meeting logs are available on 
<a href="https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/blob/b87354501b6343f9146f331805ddadc45696f728/_posts/2019-03-24-logs-for-the-dev-meeting-held-on-2019-03-24.md" target="_blank">GitLab</a>. If you do not have the time to read it all, OsrsNeedsF2P kindly summarized the logs for you on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b50mfy/logs_from_the_25_hr_dev_meeting_on_moneros_pow/" target="_blank">Reddit</a> (see comments).

<a href="https://github.com/monero-rs/monero-rs" target="_blank">Pure Rust Monero library (the first version) released on GitHub by h4sh3d</a>

<a href="https://www.kucoin.com/news/en-monero-xmr-gets-listed-on-kucoin" target="_blank">Monero gets listed on KuCoin</a> 
Supported trading pairs include XMR/BTC and XMR/ETH.

<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b5d5xg/gui_wallet_translatable_in_8_new_languages_new/" target="_blank">GUI is now translated in 8 new languages</a> 
Monero GUI is now available in Kurdish, Bengali, Persian, Irish, Urdu, Zulu Greek and Nepali.
 

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWNlyHumD-c" target="_blank">Monero NYC Meetup recorded session from March 21 is available on Youtube</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZF4BqIDrk" target="_blank">Monero Talk with Kristy-Leigh Minehan on XMR's strategy for preserving a decentralized mining network to remain as censorship resistant digital cash – available on YouTube</a>

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGMTrA6NmeM" target="_blank">Monero Talk on RandomX by October with Howard Chu, Tevador and Needmoney90 – available on YouTube</a>

<a href="https://info.binance.com/en/research/marketresearch/monero-hard-fork.html" target="_blank">Binance Research released a report discussing the effects of forking out ASIC miners</a>

<a href="https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-python" target="_blank">Monero Python module for handling Monero cryptocurrency has officially joined the Monero Ecosystem Project</a>

<a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/b4xz3f/announcing_umonerotipsbot_an_onchain_noncustodial/" target="_blank">An on-chain, non-custodial, open source Monero tipping bot has been launched - testnet only for now</a>

Monerobox 2.0 is now available for purchase on <a href="http://monerobox.store/" target="_blank">Monerobox.store</a>. Read the product info on <a href="https://medium.com/@jason.hcwong/monerobox-2-0-fedc00fa2aa4" target="_blank">Medium</a>.

<a href="https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency" target="_blank">The Tor Project now accepts Monero for donations</a>

<a href="https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-translations/blob/master/pootle.md" target="_blank">New guide for Pootle</a>, the localization platform, is available on GitHub for translators.

<a href="https://medium.com/@anhdres/how-to-choose-a-monero-wallet-c713abb2d64d" target="_blank">For new users - How to choose a Monero wallet (by anhdres)</a>

### Upcoming Events

March 30, 2019 – 17:00 UTC
Community Workgroup Meeting

April 1, 2019 – 17:00 UTC
Research Lab Meeting

April 6, 2019 – 17:00 UTC
DefCon 27 Workgroup Meeting

April 7, 2019 – 17:00 UTC
Dev Meeting

April 18th, 2019
Monero Birthday – 5 years old

Month at a glance 

### CCS Proposals

<a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/el00ruobuob-january-to-march-part-time-for-a-new-quarter.html" target="_blank">El00ruobuob part time for three months (January to March)</a> by el00ruobuob
Raised 16.61 of 45.00 XMR (37%)

<a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/pwrcycle-Defcon_Monero_Party_2019.html" target="_blank">Defcon Monero Party 2019</a>
 by pwrcycle
Raised 14.14 of 57.00 XMR (25%) 

<a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/sarang-2019-q2.html" target="_blank">Sarang: research funding for 2019 Q2</a> by Sarang Noether
Raised 422.53 of 638.00 XMR (66%)

<a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/mooo-2019-04.html" target="_blank">Moneromooo coding, april 2019</a> by moneromooo
Raised 262.11 of 410.00 XMR (64%)

<a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/surae-mrl-research-q2-2019.html" target="_blank">Surae Funding for Q2 2019</a> by Surae N
Raised 151.10 of 618.00 XMR (24%)

<a href="https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/v1docq47-video-creation-translations-into-russian-(february-july).html" target="_blank">V1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (february – july)</a> by v1docq47 
Raised 0.11 of 46.80 XMR

### Price & Blockchain Stats

<p class="note" markdown="1">Data taken on March 29, 2019 unless otherwise stated.</p>

#### Blockchain Stats

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Average Tx per block:

Weekly moving Average Tx per day:

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Block reward: 

#### Price & Performance

XMR Price
            Date    1 week %    1 month %   1 year %
USD Price 
EUR Price
BTC Price
Localmonero.co Street Price

XMR Market Cap: $4.94b

XMR Price Graph 03/22/19-03/29/19

![XMR Price Graph 03/22/19-03/29/19](/img/img-test.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>

### Monero Merchant of the Week

<a href="https://cyphermarket.com" target="_blank"><img src="/img/cyphermarket-logo.png" alt="Cypher Market Logo"></a>

Cypher Market is a business with a social vision, to experiment with new, sustainable, commerce-driven ways to support FOSS projects. They work with many FOSS projects (including various Monero workgroups) to sell merchandise and donate to them 50% of the profits. Find them at <a href="https://cyphermarket.com" target="_blank">cyphermarket.com</a>.

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

### Volunteer Opportunities

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

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

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

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

### Donate

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