Monero CCS - Reading Assignment

Privacy Coins - Ultimate Course
#21

  1. Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?
    Monero community/core team

  2. Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were there?
    RandomX Audits, 1400 XMR.
    At the time this was around $118,000.

  3. What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?
    Around $190,000 USD

  4. Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.
    v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (february - july 2020)
    The person behind this proposal is working to translate resources about Monero into the Russian language. I checked out her youtube page- it’s full of high quality voiceovers of presentations from MoneroKon 2019, wallet tutorials, etc. This seems like a really great service to drive adoption of Monero in Russia.

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#22

1. Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?
The community discusses the pros and cons; however, the Core Team determines if the community reached a loose consensus.

2. Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were there?
The ‘Completed Task’ with the highest budget was RandomX for 1,400 XMR. At the time, this equated to about $118,000. A total of 40 contributors worked on the project.

3. What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?
The current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’ is $187,029.36 (3,096 XMR * $60.41).

4. Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.
I looked through a few before landing on “GUI UX coding (3 months).” The work that’s already been done by these devs focus on the GUI. Further improvements they’d like to make are tor/i2p integration, Android/Pruism support, and many other small projects therein. The tor/i2p integration with GUI would allow users greater control of their privacy while using said tor/i2p; moreover, since Monero already has support from the software, it should be reflected in the GUI. Purism already has shown interest in having a Monero GUI natively; further, this would go a long way toward using their Librem phones (and Android phones) for crypto transactions. Thus, encouraging more users to join the Monero ecosystem and increase its use-case.

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#23

The core team makes that decision after a “loose consensus” was reached in the community.

It was a proposal called “RandomX Audits” with 40 contributers. The total USD Value was aroun 118k.

2798 XMR = 172.000 USD

“VPS funding for reproducible builds” by “TheCharlatan”.
He wants monero to have reproducible builds, so that nobody can sneak malicious code into it and everybody can verify their monero installation (via checksum). Anyone who compiles the source code should get the exact same binaries. To my (very limited) understanding, one of the problems is that not all external dependencies are compiled from scratch.

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#24

  1. Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?
    The Core Team after determining that the community has reached consensus.

  2. Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were there?
    Audits for the RandomX Proof of Work algorithm.
    Around $118,000.
    40 contributors.

  3. What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?
    3160 XMR * 63.86 USD/XMR = 201,797.6 USD

  4. Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.
    Project: GUI UX coding (3 months)
    Summary: manpower to work on the Montero GUI (Graphical User Interface). Basically to enhance the user experience of the GUI, fix bugs and add new features.
    How it supports the Monero ecosystem: It will make more user friendly, so more people can use it with less friction, less complexity, more functionalities and better integration with other systems (like Tor).

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#25
  1. Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?
  • The Monero Community
  1. Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were there?
  • RandomX Audits: 1400XMR, around $118,000
  • 40 contributors
  1. What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?
  • 3160XMR ~ 186000USD
  1. Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.
  • Project Name: v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (february - july 2020)
  • Promotiton of Monero in Russia and Russian people over the world.
  • Tranlate existing doc into Russian
  • Update mining guildline
  • Produce youtube content
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#26
  1. The Core Team IF the community has reached “loose” consensus
  2. 118,000
  3. 3160 XMR * $61.42 = $194,087
  4. Monero Payment Gateways; providing payment gateway for merchants and developers. Improving the privacy of payment gateways.
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#27

  1. The core team merges the MR based upon community consensus.

  2. RandomX Audits had the highest budget. The budget of 1400 XMR, at the time of the proposal, was 118,000 USD. There were 40 contributors.

  3. Current USD value of all “Work in Progress” is 3,160 XMR * current value of XMR @ $64.46 USD = $203,693.60.

  4. “v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (february - july 2020)”. This work consists of making Monero websites, wallets, videos, guides, etc, available in the Russian language. This will increase the ability of Russian language speakers to understand Monero blockchain and its ecosystem, to transact in XMR, to store it, and to mine it. Increasing the number of users/nodes/miners increases adoption and makes Monero’s decentralization and security more robust.

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#28

  1. The community discusses the pros and cons; however, the Core Team determines if the community reached a loose consensus.

  2. The ‘Completed Task’ with the highest budget was RandomX for 1,400 XMR. At the time, this equated to about $118,000. A total of 40 contributors worked on the project.

  3. 3160 XMR * 63.86 USD/XMR = 201,797.6 USD

4.Project: Broadcast Transactions over Tor Hidden Service
The project aims to add support to Monero daemon for broadcasting new transactions received over RPC to privacy preserving p2p connections to conceal origin IP. This proposal will use Tor hidden services, but the implementation will be written such that additional anonymity networks (Kovri?) can be added in the future.

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#29

  1. The community gives feedback and critique. The Core Team determined when the community reached loose consenus and then funding beings. So in my opinion the community but the Core Team has also a small impact on the decision.

  2. RandomX Audit with a budget of $118,000 (around 1400 XMR) and 40 contributors

  3. The current USD value of all "Work in Progess is around $ 207.580 (3160 XMR)!

  4. GUI UX coding (3 months): Monero integrated support for tor/i2p. The Monero GUI should now implement this, so that other users can use this new function easily and userfriendly. Purism wants a Monero GUI natively and included in their Limbrem 5 (phone). Also a wish for an Android GUI release should be fulfilled. Furthermore the current GUI should be improved in terms of update checker and popups. Furthermore, he wants to implement a user testing session GUI feedback, integrate the Monero GUI guide, improvement of tooltips and context menus, support for moneroseed, CMake build recipe and misc. GUI development.
    All in all he wants to improve the GUI and makes it more userfriendly. Furthermore he wants to develop other GUI for Android to make the access to Monero easier so that not only “techy” people will and can use Monero and also to support the mass adoption of Monero

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#30

  1. Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?
    the Core Team after the community has reached loose consensus.

  2. Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were there?
    RandomX Audits,1400 XMR, 118,000 USD. 40 contributors.

  3. What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?
    3160 XMR around 192,918 USD (3160 * 61.05 USD/XMR)

  4. Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.

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#31

1 - Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?

The Core Monero Team decides if project can move from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’

2 - Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were there?

RandomX Audits => 1400 XMR with 40 contributors
$118,000

3 - What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?
??

4 - Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.
??

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#32

  1. The Community determines this with the Core Team deciding that the Community has reached a loose positive approval.

  2. RandomX Audits - around $118,000 athe time. Nice work if you can get it.

  3. 3160 XMR = $197116.4

  4. Dr. Sarang Noether to further research, develop and analyse privacy focused cryptography and apps. This includes CLSAG testing and unveiling - Concise Linkable Ring Signatures and Forgery Against Adversarial Keys, Triptych research and testing - logarithmic-sized linkable ring signatures with applications and Protocol updates.

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#33

#1 - Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?
Core team + community

#2 - Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were there?
The RandomX audit, 1400 XMR, with 40 contributors

#3 - What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?
The current USD value is 3160 XMR = 194,150.40 USD (05/25/2020)

#4 - Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.
GUI UX coding (3 months) is a proposal to improve the UI/UX of the current monero UI wallet.
New implementations will be the integration of the tor feature and the support for Android phones

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#34
  1. The core team moves a project from “Ideas” to “Funding Required” after obtaining the consensus of the Monero community.
  2. The task with the highest budget was RandomX, with a value of 1400 XMR ($ 118,000, back then) and 40 contributors.
  3. A total of 3160 XMRs are required, which are approximately $ 204,831 (05/28/2020)
  4. Sarang: research funding for 2020 Q2: it funds Dr. Sarang Noether who will carry out research, development and analysis focused on cryptography and its applications. It will carry out tests and a subsequent deployment of the CLSAG signature. Triptych research and testing. And eventually protocol updates. Obviously all this can only benefit the Monero ecosystem.
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#35

• The core team after they verify that the community has reach loose consensus.
• Random X Audits, worth around $118,000 USD, 40 contributors.
• 3160 x current usd rate = 209,950.4
• [Monero Aligned] Locha Mesh, a resilient long-range radio mesh network. This project is basically connecting people without the need of an internet from a private company, therefore we can keep communication and run payments in Monero but also Bitcoin. This is really important as it would make Bitcoin or Monero really unstoppable and powered by all the users.

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#36

  1. Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?
    The Monero community

  2. Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were there?
    RandomX Audits - $118,000 – 40 Contributors

  3. What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?
    3160 XMR (4 june 2020) with a value of $68 = $214,880

  4. Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.
    Video creation / translations into russian (will help to the adoption of Monero in Russia

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#37

  1. The Core Team decides when a project moves from “Ideas” to “Funding Required”.

  2. The completed task with the highest budget was; “RandomX Audits”. The USD value at the time of the proposal was $118,000, and there were forty contributors.

  3. The current USD value of all “Work in Progress” is; 3288XMR x $68.04c = $223,715.52c at 1945hrs BST on 5/6/2020.

  4. One of the “Work in Progress” projects is called; “Monero Atomic Swaps Research Funding”.

The proposal is to carry-out research into completing a protocol for executing atomic swaps between Monero and Bitcoin. The author proposes to use the ECDSA (Elliptical Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) to make the protocol complete and implementable without needing hash pre-image zero knowledge proofs. If successful, this would help support the Monero ecosystem by making it more accessible to holders of other cryptocurrencies who cannot, or will not, obtain Monero through conventional exchanges.

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#38
  1. The Community consensus, determined by the Core Team
  2. 139 contributor, 695 XMR * 49.46 USD/XMR = 34.374,7 USD, Sarang;Research Funding for 2020 Q1
  3. 3188 XMR = 215.413,16 USD (Kraken 06/06/20, 67.57 USD/XMR)
  4. One of the Completed Task is “3 month part time on Getmonero.org”; This proposal made by someone from earlier project that has been completed, which before proposed on project-based funding, that last project causes him/her to change the term and valuation of the work due to lack of sufficiency and also the constant dedicated attention that needed by Getmonero,his/her part time task will include; 1) Triaging Issues, 2) Adding new functionality according to the feedback of the community, 3) Increasing user friendliness, 4) updating obsolete section, 5) Improving localization process, 6) Reviews
    for all of that in 3 months time in a row, the value set on 174 XMR, the funds then delivered in 3 separated times
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#39

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#40
  1. Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?1. Who decides when a project moves from ‘Ideas’ to ‘Funding Required’?

The Monero community

  1. Which ‘Completed Task’ had the highest budget? What was the USD value (at the time, hint: read the proposal) and how many contributors were they’re?

RandomX-audit, $118,000 USD, 40 contributors.

  1. What’s the current USD value of all ‘Work in Progress’?

3096XMR = $185,760 (1 XMR = $60 exchange rate)

  1. Choose one project from ‘Work in Progress’ and write a short summary of the work being done and how it supports the Monero ecosystem.

Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years:
Provide an ease installation for software upgrade on Linux Debian distribution.

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