v1docq47-video-creation-translations-into-russian-(february-july-2020).md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "v1docq47: video creation / translations into russian (february - july 2020)"
+author: v1docq47
+date: July 31, 2020
+amount: 100
+milestones:
+  - name: February
+    funds: 16.66% (XMR 16.6)
+    done: 29 February 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: March
+    funds: 16.66% (XMR 16.6)
+    done: 31 March 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: April
+    funds: 16.66% (XMR 16.6)
+    done: 20 April 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: May
+    funds: 16.66% (XMR 16.6)
+    done: 31 May 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: June
+    funds: 16.66% (XMR 16.6)
+    done: 30 June 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: July
+    funds: 16.66% (XMR 16.6)
+    done: 31 July 2020
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 31 March 2020
+    amount: 33.2
+  - date: 2 June 2020
+    amount: 33.3
+  - date: 8 August 2020
+    amount: 33.5
+---
+
+Hello, my dear followers, colleagues, and friends!  
+v1docq47 is here!  
+And this is my new funding request for my work.  
+
+### Who?
+
+I am [v1docq47](https://t.me/v1docq47), member of [XMR.RU](https://xmr.ru/) team.  
+Since September 2017 I translate into Russian everything related to Monero. I’m doing Russian dubbing and creating various videos about Monero for [Monero Russian Community YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChZc5PLsbP5zeFrmOYMKGmA).  
+I active contributor in [Monero Localization](https://taiga.getmonero.org/profile/v1docq47) and [Monero Outreach](https://taiga.getmonero.org/profile/v1docq47) working groups.
+
+This is the shortlist of my Monero localization works:
+- [Mastering Monero](https://docs.xmr.ru/books/mastering-monero/)  
+- [Breaking Monero](https://docs.xmr.ru/breaking/)  
+- [getmonero.org](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/merge_requests/913)  
+- [Monerujo](https://github.com/m2049r/xmrwallet/pull/278)  
+- [MyMonero iOS](https://crowdin.com/project/mymonero-app-ios/ru#)  
+- [Best Monero Practices](https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/outreach-docs/pull/68)  
+
+This is the shortlist of my works for Monero Russian Community YouTube channel:
+- [Monero News playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQyX7h187qnQWtCN6brBXsB9QLEuaJWQO)  
+- [User Manual playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LLhZc5PLsbP5zeFrmOYMKGmA)  
+- [MoneroKon 2019 playlist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Tr03HzGJ8&list=PLQyX7h187qnSZG_PTYtO57_z_nFOlWWEM)  
+- [What is Monero?](https://youtu.be/YfeRXFT3ECY)  
+- [A brief history of Montero](https://youtu.be/r-VmVJN-UHk)
+
+### What?
+
+Localization of the Monero project into Russian.  
+Creation of information / news and tutorials video for YouTube channel.
+
+### The Proposal and Milestones
+
+First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks for your support and congratulate everyone on the New Year! I sincerely hope that the 2020 year will be as interesting and eventful as the previous, 2019 year.
+
+So, my yet other 6 months of work have passed. I am not exaggerating if I say that a tremendous job has been done during this time. You can familiarize yourself with my progress reports in previous sentences.  
+
+I want to outline only the main directions in the course of my work for the next six months, without going into unnecessary details and explanations (but, I will be glad to give comments on any points of interest to you):
+- Accomplish the voiceover remaining performances of MoneroKon 2019  
+- Finish the export of already completed translations of MRL research documents to TeX (followed by export to pdf)  
+- Launch the Russian-language Wiki section with all reference and technical documentation and information (already in [progress](https://docs.xmr.ru/moneropedia/))  
+- Start a translation of the CLI version of the wallet  
+- Prepare the cycle of videos on working with the Trezor hardware wallet  
+- Update all my Monero mining guides ([NVIDIA](https://xmr.ru/manuals/how-to-mine-monero-with-nvidia-gpu/) / [AMD](https://xmr.ru/manuals/how-to-mine-monero-with-amd-gpu/) / [CPU](https://xmr.ru/manuals/how-to-mine-monero-cpu/))  
+- And the last, but not least, point in my to-do list for the new year is to continue working on the news block and other videos on the [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/MoneroRussianCommunity) as well as doing translations of everything related to Monero into the Russian language
+
+### How much and Payouts
+
+Any kind of work must be paid, especially work which is pleasured for you and your viewer/reader.  
+Payment on first days of every month during 6 months for my upcoming work.  
+7$ hour/ ~30 hours a week or ~120 hours a month. Usually I spend much more spare time for my work.  
+Average Monero course for a month is ~50$
+
+##### In total:
+100 XMR for 6 month work's  
+16.6 XMR per month starting from February

36c3.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: 36C3 Supplies
+author: rehrar
+date: 8 November 2019
+amount: 560
+milestones:
+  - name: Disperse to discretionary, multisig wallet
+    funds: 560
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 16 December 2019
+    amount: 280
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+What up guys? It's rehrar with another CCS proposal, but this time it's not about me. We're talking about the big C3 conference.
+
+For those who don't know, the Chaos Communication Congress is the biggest hacker convention in Europe. Monero has had a presence there for the past several years, with last year being the pinnacle. The Monero ecosystem teamed up with RIAT to put on the Critical Decentralisation Cluster (CDC). A cluster is similar to a village in Defcon, which is just a space outlined for a group of likeminded people where they can control their own content beyond that of the conference proper.
+
+Last year, the CDC was a major success, with our cluster being one of only three available stages where talks took place, as well as hosting several smaller FOSS and FOSS-friendly projects. Check out https://decentral.community to see who was present (but hurry, this site will be updated with new info soon). My (rehrar) summary of last year's conference can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/abl4df/35c3_rehrar_report/).
+
+For the past several weeks, the community has started to come together again, as the CDC is confirmed to return this year. We've had meeting in the #monero-ccc IRC channel, we've set up a project on [Monero's Taiga instance](https://taiga.getmonero.org/project/parasew-36c3/timeline), and are working out volunteers, budgeting, and other information of spreadsheets.
+
+It's come time to start to raise money for this effort, and we've decided to do it in a somewhat interesting way. Last year, there were a few businesses and organizations that donated a LOT of money to make the cluster happen. These same organizations (and more) seem to want to help again this year, but we would like them to do it as a part of the Monero community via the CCS.
+
+One of Monero's biggest strengths (and the reason we are the only named non-Bitcoin cryptocurrency presence at the conference, similar to Defcon) is our grassroots nature. We want the Monero community to help make this happen. All individuals and sponsors will be pointed to the CCS to make this year's cluster a reality.
+
+I cannot stress enough just how important this is. Monero is beginning to solidify itself in these hacker ethos spaces, and one day in the future we will be a known, common, and perhaps even necessary fixture in it (as most of us already believe we are). 
+
+We are asking for 560 XMR to make this happen. Our budget can be viewed on this [Google Sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xBKmq6oFxq3HePKlJwN7xs_mPvwS-lTwpNvVhjC9ANA/edit#gid=0). (yeah yeah, google. Save the flak. We're working on it.) WARNING! Because it is Google, use a private or incognito window to open it unless you don't mind a Google related identity leaking.
+
+The 560 XMR was reached by rounding up the 27,455.26 Euros displayed in the sheet to 28,000 (as a practical buffer), and converting on a price point of 55.34EUR/XMR (Kraken at time of writing) leading to ‭505.963136971449 XMR. Lastly, we add a 10% price buffer and round to the nearest 10 for 560.
+
+We are requesting that this XMR be released immediately to a 2/3 multisig wallet, whose keys will be held by Matthias (parasew), myself, and the last held by binaryFate. This is so any large, but time sensitive purchases can be made quickly, and without continual pestering of the Core Team.
+
+Any questions or concerns can be raised on this MR, or at our weekly C3 meetings.
+
+Thanks everyone. I hope we can all make this happen!
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Core website translation to serbian.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Core website translation to Serbian"
+author: readifugly
+date: September 19, 2020
+amount: 3
+milestones:
+  - name: Translation and checking of all words
+    funds: 3
+    done: 16 February 2021
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 14 February 2021
+    amount: 1.5
+  - date: 16 February 2021
+    amount: 1.5
+---
+This is a proposal to translate the core part of the website and filtering all the faulty translations out. By trasnlating this to Serbian it will have a slight impact to the bigger adaptation of Monero in Balkan.
+
+I got an English C1 certificate and I am currently studying Japanese at the Faculty of philology. I believe that I am qualified enough to translate it by myself.
+
+If everything goes well I will translate the rest of the site (Moneropoedia and userguides) and after that I will do a full Japanese translation.
+
+This proposal includes one milestone: The checking and editing of faulty translations, after that finishing the rest of the page. 
+7157 need checking and a lot of them will need editing. The left over 2,226 words will be translated after that. The job will be done ~4days.
+A compensation of 3xmr should be fair enough.

DTuman_6months_full-time_on_monero-projects.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: Douglas Tuman Working full-time on Monero Projects (6 months)
+author: Douglas Tuman
+date: August 30, 2021
+amount: 240
+milestones:
+  - name: Month 1 and 2
+    funds: 80
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Month 3 and 4
+    funds: 80
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Month 5 and 6
+    funds: 80
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+**INTRO**
+
+Hi Monero Fam, it is me, Douglas Tuman, best known as the host of the [Monero Talk](https://www.youtube.com/c/MoneroTalk) YouTube show, and passionate supporter of Free Speech Money! I am seeking funding from the community to bootstrap a leap from my 9-5 career to working on Monero related projects all day everyday! This is my first CCS proposal. It is long. I wanted to make sure I was being as transparent/informative as possible. 
+
+Foremost, Sunita aka Sunchakr (my biz/life partner) and I are truly thankful for all the support we have already received from:
+1. Our podcast sponsors (Cake Wallet, XMR.to, Sweetwater Digital Asset Consulting, and recently ChangeNow)
+2. Our [gratuitas.org](https://youtu.be/FVJq-SzAlow) customers 
+3. The community’s support of our projects (including my run for U.S. Congress), and
+4. The anonymous donations we received along the way. 
+
+We would never have gotten this far without you. You have given us the confidence to take our Monero projects to the next level!
+
+Currently, we both work part-time on our Monero Projects. From streaming shows weekly and editing, to traveling to Guatemala to hook-up coffee workers with Monero wallets and selling coffee on the streets of NYC — everyday we eagerly work on Monero. We wake up early before work some days, we figure out how to put hours in during the day, and we dedicate endless hours on nights and weekends. We are motivated by a pursuit of obtaining unconfiscatable liberty and a genuine desire to positively disrupt the world with the mass adoption of true digital cash. We know if we can shift to making our Monero Projects our only job, we can greatly accelerate our progress and Monero’s too. 
+
+The plan is for Sunita to continue to work her day job and part-time on Monero, while I take the leap full-time. This will provide us the healthcare and basic security we need for our family (my 7 year old daughter included), while letting me take the risk of leaving my career of 18 years for working for payment in Monero on projects that are not guaranteed to pay our bills.
+
+This would be a dream come true — to focus all my energy on helping Monero succeed and grow, without distractions. I am confident that if provided funding from the community for 6 months to a year, I can catapult a few Monero related projects to a level that will yield significant marketing gains and organic adoption for Monero. Additionally, it will allow Sunita and I to get a few projects to the stage of generating enough revenue to be self-sustaining, putting us in the position to BOTH work full-time on our Monero Projects and on growing Monero's global adoption.
+
+Below you will find a description of who I am, a list of what Sunita and I have already accomplished, milestones of what we intend on achieving in 6 months, and a request for the funding I need to make the leap. 
+
+**WHO I AM**
+
+Known as Chowbungaman from my more active Monero Reddit days, I am a digital cash maximalist who has been in crypto since early 2014 and involved in the Monero Project since 2017. I am driven by a pursuit of fighting for liberty and a desire to disrupt centralized power structures. Ultimately, I value the freedom to be an individual above all else, and I believe Monero is one of the best tools we have for preserving our individuality in the digital age.
+
+So wait aren’t you super crypto rich? Not yet, but I do have a nest egg of Monero. In fact, in terms of investments, I am and have been 100% Monero for years now. I literally own no other asset. No property, no stocks, and sold my Jeep Renegade for cash for Monero. (I drive around in my parents old Volvo). For better or worse, I am happily all Monero. This may not be proof of financial intelligence, but it is proof of my dedication to the project. And yes, Sunita is ok with this, which is why I recently asked her to marry me ;) She said yes!!
+
+Despite getting in on early prices, stacking was slow for me given that I never had much disposable income to invest. My salary always went to my family’s living expenses and my student loans (engineering undergrad and law school) etc. I also burnt a lot of my own funds on keeping our Monero Projects going, including running for Congress. So to be completely honest — Could I technically sell a chunk of my Monero and use it to live off of for a year? Yes, but I am not ready to do that in addition to sacrificing my steady career, plus I think we as a community should strive to collectively fund contributors and bootstrap Monero projects to distribute risk and keep people incentivized to work on Monero for payment in Monero. 
+
+I am currently the Commissioner of Engineering at the Town of Hempstead. I have worked in municipal government my entire career and have worked my way to the “top”. I recently ran for Congress as a pro-Monero candidate in 2020 while maintaining the day job and trying to keep Monero Talk going. Once again, Sunita was pivotal in all of this. After our run for Congress, we got back to regular scheduled Monero Talks, started MoneroTopia as a community oriented live show, and relaunched Gratuitas.org (described below). I am a NY registered attorney and Professional Engineer. I have no dev/tech/cryptography skills but I believe I understand systems well. I am not the most eloquent and I lack a British accent, but I like to think I’m good at asking pointed questions and [revealing the truth](https://youtu.be/V3b42wTdxuU?t=2094). I am good at dreaming up creative ideas and lean-launching them. I hustle and because I’m motivated by creating an impact over all else, I’m not deterred when monetary rewards are delayed or don’t come at all. I am in it for the revolution. I have many shortcomings but thankfully Sunita makes up for most of them. For example, her abilities to keep us organized, focused, consistent, and likable! Below is a list of Monero related projects Sunita and I have worked on and what we have accomplished.
+
+**MONERO RELATED WORK TO-DATE**
+
+**QwkMonero**- started in December 2017 this was actually our first attempt at launching a Monero project. QwkMonero was intended to be a way to effectively purchase Monero with cash at your “corner store”. We designed and printed up QwkMonero gift cards (with scratch off codes) and launched a simple mvp website for redeeming Monero with the card codes. We gave cards away to friends and family. The goal was to distribute these cards in local NYC bodegas etc. Unfortunately, we balked at moving further ahead due to unclear regulations and a lack of resources to properly navigate the regulations. We may more seriously attempt this again (see below).
+
+**MoneroTalk**- started in July 2018 we have consistently aired weekly interviews all related to Monero. In addition to our weekly shows we have attended a few conferences a year where we live interviewed countless guests in the Monero and Bitcoin space. We currently have 5.33k YouTube subscribers, 6k Twitter followers, and 214k podcast downloads. This [promo video](https://youtu.be/h2um-DhXTm8) sums up our progress nicely.
+
+**Gratuitas.org**- initially started in August 2019, Gratuitas sells products like coffee and allows the customers to send Monero tips to the people that produce the products. We tested the concept at Defcon 2019 with a coffee farm from Brazil. We remotely setup the workers with their own paper wallets with the help of the farm owner’s daughter who we spent time with in NYC teaching her about Monero. It wasn’t perfect but it allowed us to test the concept. The test was a success. We sold brewed coffees at Defcon 2019, continued to sell bags online for a few months, and the workers got tips. We ultimately stopped shipping coffees when running for U.S. Congress intervened. After the run we sparked it back up. We found a new farm in Guatemala with amazing coffee, through someone I met locally during my race. This time we did it right. We personally visited the farm to teach the workers about Monero and gave them their own paper wallets. We established a good relationship with the owner and some of the workers, allowing us to reliably receive shipments of fresh coffee direct from the farm and to check-in to make sure the workers are getting their tips and not mishandling their wallet seeds. You can view an update interview with one of the workers [here](https://youtu.be/F-xPsEHaFvE). The coffee sales have been consistent and slowly growing. 2 bags are being shipped out per week to customers, a few people purchased monthly subscriptions, we have had success selling brewed coffee on the street in [Brooklyn](https://twitter.com/GratuitasXMR/status/1393982333791973384?s=20), at [Porcfest](https://twitter.com/GratuitasXMR/status/1408794080105144321?s=20), and [Defcon 2021](https://twitter.com/GratuitasXMR/status/1423741493362130945?s=20). To date the 18 workers at the farm that were provided Monero wallets have each been tipped approx. $30 worth of Monero. Here is our recently launched [promo video](https://youtu.be/FVJq-SzAlow), edited by our friend Untraceable.
+
+**US Congress**- I ran for US Congress in New York’s 4th CD in 2020. While holding down our day jobs, Sunita and I worked on the campaign from March through November. For 8 months, 7 days a week, [we went nonstop](https://youtu.be/rD24hs17C0A?t=50), during the  Covid outbreak, with my daughter Frania along for the ride. We built up a team of local supporters, opened up a HQ, sent out thousands of letters, drove around with big signs on our cars with my phone number on it, texted directly with thousands of constituents, had fundraisers, ran a strong social media campaign, and even produced and aired a [local TV ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svqJE_j1yD0). We ran a true grassroots campaign and [we did better than any recent non incumbent in this district](https://youtu.be/k7D_q_UEZ0A). The hope was to be the first vocally [Pro-Monero rep](https://youtu.be/G7hNsUIp9GY?t=1125) in office and we got closer than anyone expected. The National Republican Congressional Committee now thinks it is a flippable seat. We believe it is because of what we achieved.
+
+**MoneroTopia**- Started in January 2021, after the campaign, we sparked up a new show in addition to Monero Talk. MoneroTopia is a live show hosted by Sunita and I that airs weekly with well known community members and which encourages anyone from the community (from noob to expert) to join us live on stage to discuss anything Monero related. Our subscriber numbers are the same as for Monero Talk since it is on the same channel. Here is an episode of us [live from Miami](https://youtu.be/Trb1kgJ6OfE) in June.
+
+**Conferences, Meetups, and Parties**- Since 2018, Sunita and I have hosted meetups and attended various conferences as Monero Talk and in effect to represent Monero including: 
+- Started the NYC MONERO MEETUPs, 2018 - hosted various Meetups with Vik of Cake Wallet from 2018 on. 
+- NYC Consensus by Coindesk, 2018 - hosted the [first NYC Monero Party](https://twitter.com/bri_man940/status/996772348178194432?s=20) with Vik. 
+- The Magical Crypto Conference in NYC, May 2019 - recorded interviews and live streamed, hosted the second Monero NYC party with Vik
+- [Monerokon in Denver](https://youtu.be/5OfRD2QSAyU), June 2019 - recorded interviews and live streamed, hosted a Monero airbnb house, hosted a Monero house party
+- Defcon 2019 in Las Vegas, August 2019 - recorded interviews and live streamed, helped with the Village, provided a Gratuitas coffee stand
+- 36C3 Hackers Conference in Leipzig, Germany, January 2020 - remotely recorded interviews
+- Anarchapulco in Acapulco, Mexico, February 2020 - gave a presentation on Monero, recorded interviews
+- Defcon 2020, September 2020 - remotely recorded interviews
+- The Crypto Vigilante Summit, February 2021 - remotely gave a presentation on Monero
+- BTC 2021 and Shitcoin Conference in Miami, June 2021 - assisted with representing Cake and Monero, recorded interviews & live streamed MoneroTopia
+- Porcfest 2021 in New Hampshire, June 2021 - provided a Gratuitas coffee stand, recorded interviews, used Monero daily with vendors
+- Defcon 2021 in Las Vegas, August 2021 - recorded interviews, helped with the Village, provided a Gratuitas coffee stand (sold hundreds of espressos), live streamed from the Monero Party
+
+**PROPOSAL**
+
+The following is a list of projects I would like to continue to focus on, new ones I may possibly start, milestones we aim to achieve within the first 6 months of my funding, and tasks I may pursue to reach these milestones. After 6 months I will issue a report updating the community on what was actually achieved. I will also be updating the community along the way during episodes of MoneroTopia. I may pivot as I go, so the tasks worked on may not reflect the ones listed exactly, but the general milestones I am aiming for should stay the same.
+
+**Monero Talk & MoneroTopia YouTube shows and podcasts**
+
+_Milestones_
+- Go from 5.3k to over 10k subscribers on YouTube
+- Go from 2 regular sponsors to 4 and increase our monthly sponsorship revenue from $1500 to $3500
+
+_Tasks_
+- Host people that are known beyond the Monero community in an effort to expand our audience.
+- Be a guest on popcasts and radio/tv shows that have a large following outside of the Monero community.
+- Start a new show that does daily Monero news updates or incorporate that into MoneroTopia and air it more frequently.
+- Do more in-person interviews at our “studio/apartment” (as people pass through NYC) and on location interviews to catch big names (i.e. catch an elected outside their office).
+- Continue to improve our studio and production quality
+
+_Expenses_
+- Investing in landing big guests by traveling to them on location
+- Attending conferences
+- Hiring a consultant to help us book big names
+- Investing in being a guest on podcasts and shows by hiring a publicist
+- Investing in improving production quality by purchasing additional equipment and hiring consultants (i.e. to improve our editing).
+
+**Gratuitas**
+
+_Milestones_
+- Go from regularly generating $200 per month to at least $2000 per month in revenue
+- For coffee sales go from slightly above breakeven per month to generating a monthly profit of $1000 per month
+- Add a new revenue stream (beyond coffee sales) by partnering with 2 existing brands. Partnering with existing brands will introduce new people to Monero. Imagine someone learning about Monero for the first time off of a Mezcal bottle, as a way to send a tip to the agave farmers.
+- Get a local grocery store in the Guatemalan village near the farm to accept Monero so the workers have the option to spend their tips.
+- Popularize the concept of providing change back to customers with Monero for in-person brewed Gratuitas coffee sales. Possibly develop a method that other shops can use to offer their customers change back in Monero. This could become an organic (kyc free) way to obtain some pocket change Monero through daily commerce in NYC.
+
+_Tasks_
+- Make more online bag sales by growing social media, growing our shows (above) to increase the audience Gratuitas is advertised to, run YouTube ads, possibly hire a consultant to get us media attention, and possibly hire influencers to talk about the coffee and Gratuitas concept.
+- Increase the profit made per bag sold from $3.50 to $5.50 by reducing costs of coffee (i.e. shipping up green beans in bulk that we roast locally ourselves), and reducing shipping costs by partnering with people from the Monero community that can ship out to their local countries (i.e. someone in Europe and Asia).
+- Go from selling brewed coffee on the streets once or twice a month and at Monero events, to selling brewed coffee 5 times a week. Possibly teaming up with an established business like a popular barber shop, corner store, bakery etc. to set up a daily Gratuitas NYC coffee stand. Or establishing our own regular coffee selling spot. This is a lot of daily labor/time but it will greatly increase revenue and it will organically grow Monero adoption in NYC.
+- Coordinate with the workers and the farm owner to get a local store in the village near the farm to accept Monero.
+- Partner with 2 existing brands (i.e. a popular mezcal or an existing coffee brand) to get them to add Gratuitas tipping labels to their bottles and packaging.
+- Visit the farms where their products are made (i.e. agave Mezcal farm in Mexico) to provide the service of reliably hooking their workers up with Monero wallets and guaranteeing that all tips sent go 100% to the workers.
+
+_Expenses_
+- Produce and run YouTube ads
+- Hire consultant to get media attention
+- Hire influencers
+- Continue fresh coffee importing from San Rafael Urias farm, shipping, packaging, and roasting
+- Coffee equipment/setup for in person brewed coffee sales
+- Possibly hire someone to work the coffee stand 
+- Design labels/literature for brands we partner with to provide to their customers
+- Educational videos/literature for on-boarding new workers so they understand Monero and Gratuitas (ie. the importance of not losing their private key and what to do with their Monero).
+- Travel expenses for partnering with brands and hooking up their workers with Monero wallets
+
+**Attend Conferences**
+
+_Milestones_
+- Attend 2 cryptocurrency conferences within the next 6 months to represent Monero and do onsite Monero Talk interviews. I do not know which ones yet.
+Possibly host a Monero party at one of the conferences we attend. We successfully did two of these in the past after CoinDesk’s Consensus in NYC. Consensus is not in NYC this year so we would possibly do it after another popular conference we attend.
+- Present at atleast one conference
+
+_Expenses_
+- Travel, stay, event tickets.
+
+**Host Meetups**
+
+_Milestones_
+- Host 1-3 NYC Monero meetups (aiming for 1 every 2 months for the next 6 months).
+
+**MoneroTopia Fest**
+
+_Concept:_ Organize a “decentralized conference” in March in Puerto Rico. Theme being opting into a privacy preserving “MoneroTopia” — a village like experience where you can freely live in “paradise” as a Monero using individual among Monero friends. We have ideas for how to make the event a purely Monero one where attendees will be able to use Monero from travel and stay to cab rides and buying water/cervezas at the local bodega.
+
+_Milestones_
+- Organize the first MoneroTopia Fest
+- Have 50-100 people attend
+- Get 10+ local businesses at the MoneroTopia location to accept Monero (i.e. apartment renters, restaurants, corner store, cab co.)
+- Possibly partner with Travala to get all attendees to purchase flight and accommodations with Monero.
+
+_Tasks_
+- Develop the concept further and some simple marketing and educational materials to have a clear pitch to the businesses.
+- Work with a local to start getting businesses on board. Develop a model that will benefit them. (in PR we have connections to at least one apartment owner in the perfect “paradise village” location who can also help us onboard local businesses)
+- Develop system/website to promote the event, sell tickets to MoneroTopia, provide attendees with the resources they need to acquire all travel and stay needs with Monero, and to get the most out of their MoneroTopia experience with fellow attendees.
+- Promote the event among the Monero community and among the crypto community in PR.
+- Develop an itinerary/map/guide for attendees that will provide attendees with options for how to spend their vaca using Monero and hang-out with fellow attendees. (i.e. restaurants/bars to visit, services to use, and meeting times/locations for daily Monero community meetups).
+- Develop/procure unique swag items for attendees.
+
+_Expenses_
+- Hiring a consultant to assist with website, marketing/info materials, swag design
+- Event marketing
+- Swag
+- Travel expenses for planning the event and during the event
+
+**Other ideas I may start pursuing during this 6 month time period**
+
+I will be working full-time on Monero so it is possible that I will be able to explore a few of these ideas in addition to focusing on the projects above. I am not setting any clear milestones/tasks for these. These are just additional fun projects I'm interested in exploring.
+- _Monero Secret Menu:_ Get NYC restaurants to offer special off-menu items that can only be purchased with Monero and compile the locations on a searchable map. (i.e. a special sandwich, desert, cocktail etc.) If successful this can expand to other cities worldwide.
+- _QwkMonero:_ Research relaunching QwkMonero, selling gift-cards in corner stores in NYC that are redeemable (possibly directly in CakeWallet) for Monero.
+- _Monero Diamonds:_ I recently proposed to Sunita with a Diamond that I laser engraved a microscopic Monero private key into. I am considering investing in acquiring one of these specialized diamond engraving machines and creating a “kiosk” where people can securely and privately engrave a private key into their own precious stone. Or perhaps teaming up with a vendor in the NYC diamond district that has the machine to securly offer this service.
+- _Monero NYC HQ:_ Opening up a HQ in the NYC area that would be a Gratuitas storefront, Monero Talk studio, and a place where Monero meetups can regularly be held. Obviously this would require investment but considering exploring the idea.
+
+**HOW MUCH AND PAYOUTS**
+
+I am seeking to receive funding from the community to cover my full-time devotion to these projects for 6 months. I will have no other source of income during this 6 month period other than any profits we manage to bring in from the projects. If successful and still necessary, I will seek funding for a second 6 month period. My hope is within 6 months to a year, some of these projects will be self-sustaining enough to allow Sunita and I to BOTH work on them full-time and live off of the proceeds. We are not seeking funding for Sunita’s continued part-time work (approx. 25hrs per week) or to cover any of the expenses listed above.
+
+My current yearly salary is 155k before taxes and not including healthcare, benefits, and vacation/sick days paid etc. I currently work 40hrs per week at my day job, plus approx. 21hrs per week on Monero. I am seeking to leave my current job and earn 140k for a year of full-time work (approx. 50-60hrs per week) on Monero Projects allowing us to safely cover all our current living expenses.
+
+**PAYOUT- ~$70k (240XMR) paid out in 3 bi-monthly milestone installments**
+
+_Remember, in addition to me working full-time, you get Sunita working harder than ever too. We are greatly humbled that you are even considering funding us. We know how vital it is that this open source project succeeds and how valuable each donation is. If we are successfully funded we promise we will work tirelessly to complete these milestones and are certain they will directly yield growth in positive Monero awareness and adoption._
+

ErCiccione-localizations.md

 ---
-layout: fr
+layout: cp
 title: "ErCiccione: Coordinator of the Localization Workgroup - March"
 author: ErCiccione
 date: 31 March 2019
@@ -7,19 +7,19 @@ amount: 144
 milestones:
   - name: April
     funds: 33% (48 XMR)
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 7 April 2019
+    status: finished
   - name: May
     funds: 33% (48 XMR)
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 7 May 2019
+    status: finished
   - name: June
     funds: 33% (48 XMR)
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 7 June 2019
+    status: finished
 payouts:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 14 June 2019
+    amount: 144
 ---
 
 

ErCiccione-weblate.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "New Localization platform: Weblate"
+author: ErCiccione
+date: 22 August 2019
+amount: 11
+milestones:
+  - name: Replace Pootle with Weblate
+    funds: 7.5
+    done: 13 October 2019
+    status: finished
+  - name: Update documentation, import terminology guides and translation memories
+    funds: 3.2
+    done: 13 October 2019
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 14 October 2019
+    amount: 11
+---
+
+Hello everybody, as preannounced in past community meetings, in the [dedicated meeting of the localization workgroup](https://web.getmonero.org/2019/05/04/logs-for-the-localization-workgroup-meeting-held-on-2019-05-03.html) and in [this reddit post](https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/c06vuw/my_last_proposal_as_coordinator_of_the/), here is my CCS proposal for the integration of Weblate as new localization platform. I'll keep it as schematic and short as possible.
+
+The first milestone is already ongoing and almost complete. This request of payment doesn't include the previous testing of weblate, which was included in my last CCS proposal, but only the actual installation/configuration on translate.getmonero.org (Where is already possible to see a read-only preview of the platform).
+
+### What
+This proposal is divided in 2 milestones:
+
+1. *Install and configure Weblate*  
+Which means:
+
+- Complete, operative and configured Weblate instance
+- Import unpushed contributions from Pootle
+- Set up logging and backups
+- Set up a review and submission process for translations
+
+As said, this work has been ongoing for some time. To have a less problematic implementation than Pootle I asked moneromooo to add the possibility to activate and deactivate languages in the CLI. See the [related issue](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/5753). The translations still on pootle [have been PRd](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/5788) and they just got merged.
+
+While configuring weblate I found some issues with their documentation, so i thought would have been nice to give a small contribution back to this open source project. I opened two issues suggesting changes: ([1](https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/issues/2838), [2](https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/issues/2854)).
+
+Note: In this state of things Monerujo will not be added to Weblate. Please see [this issue](https://github.com/m2049r/xmrwallet/issues/521) for the reasons.
+
+Estimated amount of time needed for this milestone: **18 hours**
+
+2. *Update documentation, import terminology guides and translation memories*  
+The Monero Localization Workgroup has terminology guides, translation memories and documentation created by members of the workgroup. Translation memories are easy to import/export, but the same cannot be said for the terminology guides. I will need to manually convert them to a format acceptable to Weblate and then import them on the platform.
+
+Also, at the moment we have a guide for Pootle that I created when we started using it. I will replace this guide with one about Weblate, specific for Monero translators. All other documentation in [monero-translations](https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-translations) and all references to Pootle in our ecosystem will be updated.
+
+After weblate will be operative, I will maintain it as volunteer (no compensation)
+
+I'm tracking most of the time spent working on Weblate with a time tracker, logs will be provided to the core team if requested.
+
+Estimated amount of time needed for this milestone: **8 hours**
+
+### Compensation
+I always offered my work at a very low rate, $20/h, which translates in about €18/h (i'm based in europe). I think it's time to ask a "less political" price, especially since market volatility had a very heavy inpact on my income during the time I was community funded (about 1 1/2 year) and as some of you know, I fully lived on only Monero. For this proposal I'm asking **€30/h** (~$33/h), which will result in 7.5 XMR for the first milestone and 3.2 XMR for the second (considering the average of 1 XMR = €72) for a (rounded) total of *11 XMR*.

ErCiccione-website-jan-march.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "3 months part time work on Getmonero.org"
+author: erciccione
+date: 1 January 2020
+amount: 174
+milestones:
+  - name: January
+    funds: 58
+    done: 31 January 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: February
+    funds: 58
+    done: 29 February 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: March
+    funds: 58
+    done: 31 March 2020
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 11 February 2020
+    amount: 58
+  - date: 6 March 2020
+    amount: 58
+  - date: 5 April 2020
+    amount: 58
+---
+
+I'm proposing to work on Getmonero part time, 20 hours a week. [My last proposal](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/101) was project-based, meaning that the proposal was considered completed after all the issues mentioned were resolved. This time i'm suggesting a more "usual" approach: part time work for three months.
+
+## What
+My intention is to work on the website in a more consistent way. My last proposal made me realize that there is so much work to do and a project-based approach is not sufficient. Getmonero needs some constant and dedicated attention. You can check [my activity on the monero-site repository](https://repo.getmonero.org/users/erciccione/activity) for an idea of my past contributions, but summarized, my activity will be:
+
+- Triaging issues
+- Adding new functionalities according to the feedback of the community
+- Increasing user friendliness
+- Updating obsolete sections
+- Improving localization process
+- Reviews
+
+## Milestones
+I'm asking to work as developer on the monero-site repository for three months at a rate of €30/hour, starting on January 2020, 20 hours a week. This results in a total of *174 XMR* at the rate 1 XMR = €41.

ErCiccione-website.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Multiple features and fixes for getmonero.org"
+author: erciccione
+date: 16 October 2019
+amount: 60
+milestones:
+  - name: All issues implemented/resolved
+    funds: 60
+    done: 31 December 2019
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 8 January 2020
+    amount: 60
+---
+The website needs improvements and I would like to dedicate more time to it, if accepted, this proposal will allow me to fix some long standing issues and add some needed features.  
+I realized that I always end up working way more hours than decleared in the CCS, so for this one I'm using a different, delivery based, approach:
+
+I listed the issues I want to work on below. This proposal will be considered complete once all the issues mentioned are resolved and closed. The specific implementation of each issue will be based on feedbacks from the community, but most of them are self-explanatory.
+
+
+#### Overhaul of the 'Downloads' page
+I already started working on this issue. Right now I cannot afford to dedicate much time to it, but as soon as this proposal is accepted I'll make it my first priority. I will also contact translators asking them to translate the new page, but i cannot give a timeframe for when the translations will be ready, since that entirely depends on the translators themselves.
+
+https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/issues/997
+
+#### Onion mirror of Getmonero.org
+I think would be beneficial for the website to have a *.onion* mirror. The community expressed interest in this, but nobody went ahead and created it. The onion website would be managed by me, but right after the launch I will propose the core team to hand them the credentials. If they accept, good, otherwise, I will maintain it.
+
+https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/issues/958
+
+#### Add user guide on how to use bootstrapped blockchain
+As explained in the issue, we provide the blockchain, but we don't say how to use it. I will create a user guide where all the steps are explained.
+
+https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/issues/980
+
+#### Improve 'Accepting Monero' section
+THe *Accepting Monero* section is very old and technical, I want to update it and make it much simpler. All details in my comment on the issue.
+
+https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/issues/992#note_7283
+
+#### Add CI 
+I want to implement [GitLab's Continuous Integration system](https://about.gitlab.com/product/continuous-integration/), to allow us to automatically test the website and new PRs (something similar to the buildbots we have on GitHub). This will make life easier for maintainers and contributors. I will work with moneromooo (for installing the runner on our GitLab instance) and luigi1111 to make this happen. The resulting structure can be used by other repositories on the GitLab instance.
+
+#### Add reference to mailing list
+https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/issues/1000
+
+#### Add structure for localized videos
+This is something that has been in my todo list for some time. I think would be cool to give people the opportunity to have the video on the homepage of getmonero in their language. We already have the Brazilian Portuguese version waiting to be uploaded.
+
+https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/issues/952
+
+#### Add link or section where it's possible to download marketing material
+https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/monero-site/issues/909
+
+## Milestones and reward
+As said at the beginning, this is a project-based CCS. It should be considered completed when all the points mentioned above are resolved. I'm asking 3000 Euros, at the rate of 1 XMR = 49 eur EUR makes a total of `60 XMR`, to be rewarded at completition.
+

Getting-to-grips-with-Monero.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: "Curation of Getting to grips with Monero mini series"
+author: Monero-Guides
+date: November 16, 2021
+amount: 12
+milestones:
+  - name: Importing public keys and verifying hashes
+    funds:
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Setting up a node
+    funds: 5 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Using Monero as money
+    funds:
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Using monero with enhanced privacy
+    funds: 7 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+## Preface 
+
+Hi all,
+
+After some careful consideration we've decided to put together a proposal for the CCS.
+We now hope that this is the best method for garnering both community support and input.
+
+
+### Getting to grips with Monero
+
+We're here to pitch our first mini series. The working title for which is 'Getting to grips with Monero'
+
+For those of you who are not familiar with our work, please check out our latest video, [Mining Monero with P2Pool - Windows; Quick start guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfbvTksF9ic). We are really pleased with the reactions we've received and would love to capitalise on our current enthusiasm. 
+
+The mini series/playlist we propose to curate will contain 4 videos, each of varying length and on different subjects.
+They are: Importing public keys and verifying hashes, Setting up your own node, Using Monero as money and Using Monero with enhanced privacy.
+
+We believe this series would be a great starter pack for anyone getting into monero and would help lift some more of the strain that still exists when on boarding new users. Let's summarise the contents of each video to illustrate.
+
+
+## Video Contents
+
+### Importing public keys and verifying hashes
+
+First we plan on explaining a little bit about PGP, why its useful and its history and its links to cryptography.
+That will be followed by an introduction to GPG, with step by step instructions for: creating your own key pair, importing someone else public key, signing their public key (brief explanation about web of trust) and using a public key to verify signatures.
+
+Finally, an example of using that to verify sums and comparing those sums to those of the files we will download.
+
+### Setting up a node
+
+In this video, we want to both explain what a node is and their importance to the network and then show how to download and run the monero daemon.
+Included will be basic explanations of: how to interact with the monero daemon, setting up your own config, the difference between a full and pruned node, locating the lmdb folder/changing and specifying its location.
+
+We also want to discuss basic hardware recommendations for those who wish to keep there nodes running 24/7 
+
+### Using Monero as money
+
+Here we would like to show how to: create a wallet, show where wallet file is located and explain the difference between the different keys.
+
+Following this would be demonstration of how to connect to a node from within a LAN and also how to connect to a remote node/hidden service in the case one cannot run their own.
+
+Next: an explanation of how transactions are sent and how long they take (including locked funds), how to set up sub addresses (explain why they are useful/best practice).
+
+We would like to finish the video by showing a practical example of how ask for and send funds (we want to show an IRL payment online @ https://digitalgoods.proxysto.re/), how to prove and verify proof you have sent or received funds and finish with a quick intro to payment ids/integrated addresses.
+
+We will be demonstrating all of this with feather wallet due to its native tor integration, which will be required for the next video in the series. We will also show how to use Monerujo with tor for on-the-go payments.
+
+### Using Monero with enhanced privacy
+
+To begin this video we want to introduce the concept of coin control. Explain the implication of mixing inputs and hence the benefit of churning.
+
+Next we want to explain how to connect to your own node from outside of your LAN. It will be necessary to explain how to forward ports on both your firewall and router and what the default ports are for RPCs.
+
+Following this will be an explanation how to use your node in conjunction with a VPN and a brief overview of VPN itself. With our purchased VPN subscription from the 'using monero as money' video, we want to show how to forward ports on their service and how to change the default ports for those already discussed.
+
+We also plan on showing how to set up a hidden service on Linux. Explaining its advantages for mobile use and how to use it with Feather Wallet and Monerujo.
+
+## Additional comments 
+
+Our scripts will be hosted on Github for review, prior to production - https://github.com/moneroguides and the completed videos will be initially hosted on Youtube.
+
+Currently we already have two scripts awaiting comments.
+
+We have also recently set up a website https://moneroguides.org where we will both mirror the videos from Youtube and host the texts for those who struggle with English as a second language.
+
+Once all the texts have been completed and put into production. We would like to place bounties for their translation so that subtitles may be included.
+
+## Milestones
+
+We are proposing 4 milestones, one for each video. Each Milestone will be completed in sequential order. 'Payouts' are proposed after the release of the first two videos and upon completion. 
+
+## What we are asking for
+
+We want to work on this series part time for approximately 20 hours per week. It is planned for completion within 6 weeks after acceptance.
+
+The amount we're asking for is reflected by a rate of $25/h. We have already raised ~1XMR via our [bounties propsoal](https://bounties.monero.social/posts/31/monero-guides-mini-series) which will be added if the proposal is accepted.
+
+We are also hoping that competent members of the community step forward to help review and comment on our scripts! 
+
+Thanks for taking the time to read this proposal and peace be with you privacy fans.

Lovera-Create-Educational-Content.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Create Educational Content in Spanish
+author: Lovera
+date: November 06, 2021
+amount: 13.5
+milestones:
+  - name: December
+    funds: 33.33% (XMR 4.5)
+    done: 31 December 2021
+    status: finished
+  - name: January
+    funds: 33.33% (XMR 4.5)
+    done: 31 January 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: February
+    funds: 33.33% (XMR 4.5)
+    done: 28 February 2022
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 6 January 2022
+    amount: 4.5
+  - date: 16 February 2022
+    amount: 4.5
+  - date: 21 March 2022
+    amount: 4.5
+---
+
+### Introduction
+
+Hello friends and Monero Fam, Lovera Here!
+This is my second funding request for my work and I want to be as transparent as possible.
+I am seeking funding from the community to working on Monero related projects all days full time. 
+Im truly thankful for all the support i have received from the community and my sponsor Cakewallet.
+
+Currently I work a little less part-time on monero projects (Videos, guides, website,etc), mainly due to the fact that 
+I have to dedicate time to my work (9-17). Actually the Monero News in my main YouTube channel (5 Videos per month) are 
+sponsored by Cakewallet. Also i have another sponsor (localcryptos) that support my content for Monero, Bitcoin and mining
+But if I am going to dedicate myself full time to Monero and quit my job, I will need much more, so the plan is to take the 
+leap full-time.
+
+### Who?
+I'm Lovera, creator of satoshilov.com and YouTube Channel LoveraTV
+I'm a big fan, support and contributor of Monero. 
+Since 2019 I am actively sharing educational content about Monero on my social networks. I’m creating educational videos about Monero, writing guides and tutorials in Spanish. I also translate into Spanish everything related to Monero and post it on my website.
+You can check my Guides and articles here:
+
+* [Monero Blog](https://satoshilov.com/monero/)  
+
+And my Videos about Monero
+
+* [Monero Videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGX_LoM5yemgt3ppLXvNBKYf6IuFI7BPS)
+
+* [Monero News Videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGX_LoM5yemgVhlwCEn_Z5m0LPMxQgNZj)
+
+* [Monero Pods](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGX_LoM5yemhq5KMyPeUr6JzJSqkqjzHL)
+
+
+### ¿What is the proposal about?
+I just created an independet YouTube Channel (LoveraXMR) where i will share Monero only content
+At the same time, i will share this content (with some little modifications in the video) in my main channel (LoveraTV) 
+To reach a greater number of users. 
+
+### Milestones and projected schedule
+
+LoveraXMR YouTube Channel
+Milestones
+* Go From 30 to over 1k Suscribers on YouTube
+* Created 4 short Videos per month about Monero News (weekly)
+* Created 4 Short Video per month (Q&A) about Monero
+* Created at less 2 Video Tutorial about Monero per Month (Wallets, GUI Wallet, Node in differents OS, etc)
+* Created 1 Video per month in format Podcast with some members of Spanish Community
+* Created at less 1 Video per month About Monero Mining and promote descentralized p2pool 
+* Continue to improve our studio and production quality
+
+LoveraTV YouTube Channel 
+Milestones
+* Go From 9k to over 15k sucribers on YouTube
+* Created at less 1 Video Tutorial per month About Monero (Same (with some modifications) or different than the one published
+ in XMRLovera)
+* Refer users in each video sponsored by cakewallet (LoveraTV) to the videos created in XMRLovera
+
+
+Satoshilove (Website)
+* Create quality educational content by my self for the Spanish-speaking community. The objective is to transmit the benefits, 
+characteristics and importance of Monero for financial privacy, through guides and articles. (at less 2 per month)
+* Translate and publish in my web site important and valuable articles and guides from diferents Monero Community ussers (At less 2 per month)
+* Translate into spanish and publish in my web site every MRL meeting Logs 
+* Work in Moneropedia in satoshilov.com/moneropedia 
+* Translation articles, news and other materials into Spanish and publish in satoshilov.com
+* maintance of the site 
+
+### Why it is important for Monero and the community?
+
+Monero is an incredible project, but there are many false beliefs and ignorance about it in the Spanish-speaking community. By 
+providing more quality content in Spanish, we will be able to raise awareness in the Spanish community about the importance of 
+financial privacy, about the importance and role that Monero plays in our financial activity.
+
+### How much and Payouts?
+
+A good work must be paid or rewarded, specially if this contribute to a good cause. Payment on first days of every month during 3 months for my upcoming work 
+7$ / hour / 1.10- XMR a week or 4,5 XMR per month for 160 hours of work, Usually I spend much more time for my work
+ (about 10 hours a day).
+ In total: 4,4 XMR per Month 13.5 XMR for three months starting from December.

Lovera-content-creator-in-spanish.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Create Monero educational content in Spanish
+author: Lovera
+date: October 01, 2020
+amount: 15
+milestones:
+  - name: Milestone 1 - 7 Educational articles
+    funds: 5 XMR
+    done: 4 November 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Milestone 2 - 5 Educational video and news translation
+    funds: 10 XMR
+    done: 4 January 2021
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 6 November 2020
+    amount: 5
+  - date: 6 January 2021
+    amount: 10
+---
+Who?
+I'm Lovera, creator of satoshilov.com
+I'm Venezuelan and a fan of Monero
+Since 2019 I am actively sharing educational information about Monero on my social networks. I’m creating educational videos about Monero, writing guides and tutorials in Spanish. I also translate into Spanish everything related to Monero.
+
+You can check my Guides and articles here:
+https://satoshilov.com/monero/
+
+And my Videos about Monero
+https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGX_LoM5yemgt3ppLXvNBKYf6IuFI7BPS
+
+¿What is the proposal about?
+Create quality educational content for the Spanish-speaking community.
+The objective is to transmit the benefits, characteristics and importance of Monero for financial privacy, through guides, articles, videos and in general written and audio visual material.
+
+All this to be shared through social networks.
+
+Milestones and projected schedule
+
+First stage (for 1 month)
+Write 7 educational articles about Monero that will include:
+* How to run a Monero node
+* How to run a Monero node on a Raspberry Pi
+* How to mine Monero
+* Wallets and types of wallets (Analysis of the most popular)
+* How to get monero
+* Comparison between Monero and Bitcoin
+* 5 Reasons to use Monero and not another privacy currency
+
+Second stage (for 2 months)
+Make 5 educational videos and news traslation:
+* How to run a Monero node
+* How to run a Monero node on a Raspberry Pi
+* How to mine Monero (with different mining programs)
+* How to get monero
+* Comparison between Monero and Bitcoin
+
+I will translate the most relevant news about Monero into Spanish in audio visual format so every week make an informative video with the most relevant news about Monero. 
+Even after the end of the funding (after 2 months) I will continue to make a weekly video about the Monero news.
+
+Why it is important for Monero and the community?
+Monero is an incredible project, but there are many false beliefs and ignorance about it in the Spanish-speaking community. By providing more quality content in Spanish, we will be able to raise awareness in the Spanish community about the importance of financial privacy, about the importance and role that Monero plays in our financial activity.
+
+How much and Payouts?
+
+Until now I have been writing articles and making videos completely free of charge since I like this project a lot, however due to the lack of time (and money) I have considered that any kind of work must be paid or rewarded.
+Payment on first days of every month during 3 months for my upcoming work
+0.05 XMR / hour / 1.25 XMR a week or 5 XMR a month for 100 hours of work
+Usually I spend much more time for my work (about 10 hours a day).
+
+In total: 5 XMR per Month 
+15 XMR for three months starting from October 

MoneroKon-2022-CCS.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: "MoneroKon 2022 CCS"
+author: midipoet
+date: December 7, 2021
+amount: 328 XMR
+milestones:
+  - name: Funds paid out
+    funds: 328
+    done: 21 February 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name:
+    funds:
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 21 February 2022
+    amount: 328
+---
+
+# MoneroKon 2022 Funding
+
+# What:
+A small working group (#monero-events) would like to push forward with plans for a Monero conference. 
+ 
+We had originally planned for an event in Berlin in 2020, but this was cancelled mid-way through planning, due to the pandemic. 2021 was also cancelled. 
+ 
+We feel that 2022 is the time to try again. Due to the ongoing situation in Germany (high case numbers and greater restrictions), it was decided to try in Lisbon, Portugal - mainly for two reasons. The first is that Portugal has taken a relatively risk-tolerant approach to the situation, and has also begun opening up for public events. Recently it hosted Web Summit 2021 - which had 10,000 capacity. 
+ 
+The Monero conference will be in a similar theme to the last MoneroKon, which was hosted in Denver, Colorado in 2019.
+ 
+We are hoping to put on a professional two-day event, with capacity for 200 people, live-streamed (hopefully), and including an afterparty. The intended date is sometime in June 2022 (venue availability ending). The conference itself will focus on high quality talks, workshops, and panel discussions. We will also build in some downtime for people to mingle, and enjoy conversation with peers and friends they may not have seen for some years.
+ 
+**We are imagining this will be the first of two CCS requests.**
+
+This first one (CCS-1) covers the total (maximum) **estimated cost of putting on the event - €55,650** (328 XMR approx @ current price of €170 per XMR - 6th January 2021).
+
+**edit2 - changed price above to reflect more closely current market value.**
+
+**edit3 - changed price above to reflect more closely current market value and also include the addition of a ticketing system.**
+
+**edit4 - changed price above to reflect more closely current market value (6th January) and also include the addition of a ticketing system.**
+
+The second CCS (CCS-2) will cover the cost of speaker and volunteer travel and accommodation. We imagine there will be 25 total speakers and volunteers, and we have a **very rough estimate that CCS will be around €25,000.**
+ 
+The idea is that CCS-1 is the **maximum cost for the event.** As we get closer to the actual event (Mar/Aril 2022), we should know how much we have saved from CCS-1 (i.e. the actual costs being less than the imagined maximum costings). Any funds that we have saved will be used to reduce the CCS-2 amount.
+
+**Please note that if the actual event costs are not significantly lower than the quoted maximum then the second CCS will be required to cover the total costs for speaker and volunteer travel and accommodation.**
+
+**edit3 - we also discussed the possibility of obtaining sponsors for the event. The decision was made to keep this an option, and to direct sponsors towards the second CCS (speaker, travel and volunteer costs). This way sponsors will hopefully have more certainty of the event happening (March/April), and they can ask speakers to note the support they have received from corporate donors. We will try and and ensure that sponsors are not a requirement for event success, but if they can lessen the load on the community, that is also welecomed.**
+
+The two CCS idea is mainly for two reasons:
+
+1. To protect the community in the event of travel restrictions being imposed/or in the event that the event may be cancelled. The cost of travel is delayed until things are clearer/more certain. 
+
+2. Two CCSs reduces the immediate burden on the community, by splitting the request into two smaller amounts. 
+ 
+# Who:
+I (midipoet) am one of the main instigators of this funding proposal - along with a number of other known and trusted community members. Personally, I have been a community member for a number of years, speaking at various events, conducting research, and constructively working on Monero through the Monero Policy Working Group. 
+ 
+However, this CCS is not for me as there is a core group who will be supporting organisation, planning, and overseeing the project throughout (#monero-events), including known and trusted members of the community such as msvb, ajs, carrington, kico, and reset (as well as others).
+ 
+# How: 
+This is the important bit.
+ 
+Firstly, I am proposing to hire two designated project managers to support organising the event. A PM was also hired for MoneroKon 2019 (so there is precedent).  
+ 
+I am personally nominating (and taking ultimate responsibility for) two entities known and trusted to me. They own and operate Provenance Events, and have recently successfully put on www.liscon.org (1500 capacity Ethereum conference in Lisbon, in October 2021). They also have experience at putting on cryptocurrency/blockchain conferences in Ireland, Japan, and Korea.
+ 
+A series of photos from their events may be found [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1W8lX2ZNdUaBvYR3MDlAPiHV4nu2mliCT). 
+ 
+They are currently based out of the Azores and know Lisbon well, having lived there for the last six months leading up to Liscon 2021. They have agreed to do the project management for a fee of €5000 + estimated expenses of €1500 (capped to that amount). 
+
+They are ultimately our eyes on the ground and will be coordinating all decisions through the Monero events work group (#monero-events), in discussion with the overarching planning team.
+ 
+They have drafted up [this excel](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1Ls-U_F6DPjm0kpXwzz-noLLKR5Ti42gffj31LcoINc8/edit#gid=0) of estimated costs. They believe this to be the maximum required to put on the event. It includes their fee. Everything marked in yellow they believe may be optional/dependent on venue. 
+ 
+Any surplus from CCS-1, we will use to either: 
+ 
+1. fund speakers and volunteer related expenses thus reducing CCS-2
+2. returned to the general fund to be used for MoneroKon 2023 (to be held in the USA). 
+ 
+Once the 328 XMR has been raised, it will be moved immediately to the capital reserves of a company entitled Digital Renegades Corp. This company is owned and operated by Monero Core member binaryFate. This will then immediately be converted to fiat, or a stable coin, to hedge for any price fluctuation.
+ 
+Digital Renegades Corp will use the capital to pay for invoices in fiat, directly to the invoicer, as and when they are received. This will include an initial outlay for the PMs to get started (I am proposing €1500). The PMs have agreed to keep an ongoing transparent record of all expenditure for the event (including their own expenses). The PMs will not handle fiat unless explicitly having too. All CCS funds will be managed by the Digital Renegades Corp.
+
+**edit2 - It has been agreed that the €5000 fee will be dispersed to the PMs through a series of milestones. All milestones **will be non-refundable**. The first will be paid once (if) the CCS is funded (€1500). The second one will be paid around March/April (€1500), and the last one pre-event in May/June (€2000). Their expenses will be paid as and when necessary - through Digital Renegades Corp. They have agreed to keep an open and transparent record of expenses (including receipts) and it will be limited to €1500. This agreement is also reflected in the contract between DR and PMs.**
+ 
+It should also be noted that we plan to sell tickets for the event. All ticket revenue will flow back to Digital Renegades Corp, and will be recycled into a fund for MoneroKon 2022/2023. This will be accounted for in a transparent fashion.
+
+**edit1 - It has been discussed that a contract should be signed between the organisers and Digital Renegades, and this is the process of being organised. A contract template has been provided, and we are reviewing and amending it, so it is fit for purpose - thus protecting both the organisers, and of course Digital Renegades Corp**
+ 
+# Why:
+To ensure we have a MoneroKon 2022 and not have it cancelled for three years in a row. 
+ 
+# Amount:
+328 XMR
+ 
+# Covid fallback:
+Due to this ongoing issue, we will need to have a plan in place to mitigate potential eventualities where the event has to be cancelled. We are not envisaging this for an event of 200 people. However, we will organise to have a refund agreement in place with all venues/service providers, and also for anybody that has pre-purchased tickets. We will also be reticent of travel and accommodation refunds that may be forthcoming. Obviously this won’t be possible for everything - but hopefully will be for most things. Any surplus XMR raised and not spent in this eventuality will flow back to the General Fund to be used for MoneroKon 2023 (if not cancelled as well).
+
+**edit2 - As @rottenwheel has stated, the CCS does not afford refunds to be paid to donors. To this effect, if the CCS is funded and the event has to be cancelled/postponed all XMR will be directed towards MoneroKon 2023. If the CCS is only partially funded - all raised XMR will be directed to the MoneroKon 2023 fund**
+
+**edit3 - Please note that if this CCS _is not funded in full by mid February (estimated date)_, the raised funds at that time will roll into the MoneroKon 2023 fund, maintained until 2023 by Core. This was discussed in the #monero-community channel, and agreed upon as a way to move forward.**

Norwegian-translation.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Norwegian translation of the GUI
+author: Christopher
+date: 23 October 2019
+amount: 3
+milestones:
+  - name: Translation of GUI to Norwegian
+    funds: 3
+    done: 18 February 2020
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 20 February 2020
+    amount: 3
+---
+
+Proposal: I downloaded the Monero GUI and realized that there is no Norwegian translation for it.
+I am a certified translator who has translated for among others Facebook, and I would love to help translate the
+GUI to Norwegian. To show my support for crypto and crypto adoption, I suggest doing it for a 60%-ish discount, so appr. $0.05/word.
+There should be 3447 words, which amounts to, lets say, 3 XMR. I can assure you that it is my own intention to do a flawless job and I
+also want the translation to be just right. I think it is important for the Monero community to have a Norwegian translation of the GUI 
+as cryptocurrency is getting more and more traction in Norway, and I think Norwegians will benefit from having it in their native language.
+
+Addendum:
+
+I will personally handle the translation.
+I have one milestone, which is translation of the 3447 words.
+If approved, I will have the translation completed within 48 hours.
\ No newline at end of file

Norwegian_translation_core.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Norwegian translation of webplate, footers, nav. menu"
+author: Chris Avis
+date: 24 February 2020
+amount: 6
+milestones:
+  - name: Translation of all words
+    funds: 6
+    done: 30 September 2020
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 8 October 2020
+    amount: 6
+---
+
+This is a proposal to translate the core part of the website (7615 words), navigation menu (147 words), footer 1 (142 words) & 
+footer 2 (5 words) to Norwegian, amounting to 7909 words. I think that those Norwegians who are not as sturdy in English will 
+appreciate being able to learn what Monero is about in their native language. I would like to help facilitate this and to 
+make sure they understand Monero better by providing a solid translation.
+
+About one month ago I translated the GUI wallet to Norwegian. I spent quite some time on this translation as I 
+wanted everything to be right, and it seems that the reviewers were pleased with my work. I previously asked for 
+3 XMR to translate the GUI wallet (3489 words). Given the same XMR/word ratio, this equates to just below 7 XMR.
+
+To compensate for values that should not have been counted in my text editor, I suggest deducting 1 XMR for this, so I 
+ask for a final amount of 6 XMR. The translation will consist of one milestone – the translation of all 7909 words. I will translate 
+the content and I expect to use 3-4 days on translating this.

RandomX-audit.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: RandomX Audits
+author: Howard Chu
+date: 20 May 2019
+amount: 1400
+milestones:
+  - name: Kudelski
+    funds: 215
+    done: 12 April 2019
+    status: finished
+  - name: X41
+    funds: 555
+    done: 10 May 2019
+    status: finished
+  - name: QuarksLab
+    funds: 625
+    done: 10 May 2019
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 30 May 2019
+    amount: 1293.8
+---
+
+This is the funding request for the audits for the RandomX Proof of Work algorithm that we've
+been working on for the past year or so. Our aim has been to develop a PoW that requires any
+implementation to include the major components of a CPU, and thus constrain all implementations
+to have CPU-like performance. The code for RandomX is available for testing on
+https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/
+
+We solicited proposals from 4 different audit teams. One of these is already being paid for
+by Arweave.org. The community voted to fund the other 3, in this priority order. The vote
+occurred on https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bozr0z/randomx_auditor_selection/
+
+Like with the Bulletproofs audit, We are working with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF),
+which has generously offered to manage the exchange of XMR to fiat to pay the reviewers.
+
+REQUEST
+
+1. Kudelski 18,250 CHF ~ $18,094.04
+2. X41 42,000 Euro ~ $46,902.58
+3. QuarksLab $52,800.00
+
+The total amount is around $118,000 (and may vary due to exchange rate fluctuations from USD
+to CHF and EUR). The request is for 1400 XMR, using an exhange estimate of 1 XMR = 85 USD. Since
+the funding is in fiat currency, this amount will be updated to reflect price fluctuations
+until funded.
+
+The reviews will be funded in this order as soon as sufficient funds are available. This means
+that as soon as enough funds have been raised to pay for Kudelski we will engage them to begin
+their review. If/when sufficient funds are raised to pay for X41 we will start that; if/when
+sufficient additional funds are raised to cover QuarksLab we will start that. If we don't raise
+enough funds to cover all 3 reviews we will go with whatever we can cover. As with any other CCS
+proposal, any funds collected that aren't sufficient to meet a funding target will be reverted
+to the general development fund.
+
+Reviews must be completed by end of June so that any identified problems can be fixed by July,
+and ready for a code freeze and subsequent October release.

Rucknium-OSPEAD-Fortifying-Monero-Against-Statistical-Attack.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: OSPEAD - Fortifying Monero Against Statistical Attack
+author: Rucknium
+date: September 25, 2021
+amount: 171
+milestones:
+  - name: Milestone 1 - Deliver fully specified estimation plan to scientific review panel
+    funds: 67
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Milestone 2 - Deliver initial probability density function to scientific review panel
+    funds: 74
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Milestone 3 - Deliver final version of probability density function to Monero developers
+    funds: 30
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+# Abstract
+
+The current decoy selection algorithm, developed by a group of non-statisticians in 2018, statistically leaks metadata about transactions on the Monero blockchain. This metadata, which comes in the form of the age of the outputs that are used as inputs for transactions, could be used by an adversary to probabilistically identify the "real spend" in Monero transactions and thus make Monero transactions somewhat traceable.
+
+The current decoy selection algorithm (DSA) has been acknowledged as a weak point in Monero's privacy model, but to date no plan has emerged to improve it. Over the last three months I have developed an outline of a plan to overhaul the algorithm through a technique I have termed OSPEAD: Optimal Static Parametric Estimation of Arbitrary Distributions. The overhaul should substantially improve user privacy by reducing Monero's statistical attack surface. Given that Monero will likely come under increasingly sophisticated attack in the near future, carrying out this plan --- or one like it --- is critical for Monero user privacy and Monero's future as a whole.
+
+![Statistical Monero Logo](https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/raw/main/Statistical-Monero-Logo/Statistical-Monero-Logo.gif)
+
+# The status quo
+
+The current decoy selection algorithm (DSA) is based on work in [Moser et al. (2018) "An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain"](https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.1515/popets-2018-0025). They suggested a gamma distribution with [some fitted shape and scale parameters](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/de3456e1275836725291ba71036b7ef0e2cda91f/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp#L137-L138) that ideally would have closely matched the true underlying real spend age distribution, thus concealing the real spends and substantially improving user privacy.
+
+However, according to my research into the backgrounds of the 11 authors of the paper, none of them are statisticians. Their suggestion was a decent first draft, but in my view it never should have been implemented in production code due to several flaws. (To be fair and clear, it may have represented the best available DSA at the time, and I cannot find any fault with Monero researchers and developers for choosing to implement it since it represented a huge improvement over the status quo ante.) Another applied statistician within the Monero community has now reviewed the suggestion in Moser et al. (2018) and agreed with me that it has substantial shortcomings.
+
+As far as I have been able to tell, no qualified statistician has reviewed Monero's privacy model, despite the fact that it clearly relies upon resistance to statistical attack to prevent traceability of transactions. Or, to word it more alarmingly, no qualified statistician *whose goal is to protect the privacy of Monero users* has reviewed Monero's privacy model. As an empirical microeconomist, I consider myself roughly equivalent to an applied statistician within this context, particularly since transactions are a key object of study within my discipline --- and therefore I may have special subject matter insight into the issue.
+
+Much [academic](https://doi.org/10.1145/3448016.3452825) ink [has](https://www.mdpi.com/2624-800X/1/1/9) already [been](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/593) spilled [regarding](https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.1515/popets-2018-0025) the [importance](https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/popets-2021-0047) of [having](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14234-6_5) a [good](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-66399-9_9) DSA. However, the clearest statement on the issue may be from @moneromooo-monero, who is responsible for [a greater number of commits to the Monero codebase](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/graphs/contributors) than any other developer. Recently [he stated](https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-dev/20210925#c31927):
+
+> **\[Fixing the decoy selection algorithm\] is important. It's the weakest part of monero.**
+
+@selsta, another key Monero developer, [has stated](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/pz9gbm/comment/hezuw2p/):
+
+>It has always been known that statistical attacks are possible on ring signatures in Monero, see for example the Moser et al. (2018) paper....I personally welcome research into the decoy selection algorithm, it is known to be one of the weakest spots in monero that isn't yet well researched.
+
+# Proposed fix
+
+On September 16, I submitted a 28-page encrypted document to Monero's Vulnerability Response Process (VRP). It contained a practical statistical attack on user privacy as well as an outline of a plan to overhaul the DSA to (1) reduce the potency of the attack in the medium term through a novel technique I have named Optimal Static Parametric Estimation of Arbitrary Distributions (OSPEAD); and to (2) eventually render the attack completely inert through a nonparametric and possibly dynamic approach. Dr. Mitchell P. Krawiec-Thayer (a.k.a. [isthmus](https://github.com/mitchellpkt/)), longtime Monero Research Lab researcher, has called my work "a fundamental breakthrough in analyzing Monero-style ledgers."
+
+A key difficulty with writing this CCS proposal is that the attack and the plan to overhaul the DSA have some indirect links. Let me be clear about risks and transparency. The actual change to the DSA, in terms of the probability distribution that decoys are drawn from, will be open source and plainly visible in the Monero code in all circumstances. There seems to be a consensus forming that full disclosure of my attack should occur eventually, perhaps after the OSPEAD research plan is carried out but before it is implemented in a release of a new version of the Monero reference wallet. It does not make much sense to release the attack before an adequate defense has been developed. My sense is that a final decision on disclosure will be made once the problem is better understood as my research progresses.
+
+According to my intuition, I expect that future transactions that use the overhauled DSA determined by OSPEAD will be 70-90% less vulnerable to statistical attack than transactions that use the current DSA. In addition, a "perfectly" implemented nonparametric approach, which will take much more time to develop, would completely eliminate this particular statistical attack vulnerability.
+
+Increasing the ring size is part of Monero's long-term development roadmap. However, I have produced evidence that the statistical vulnerability would still remain with larger ring sizes. Raising the ring size from 11 to, say, 16 would barely dent the potency of my attack. Raising the ring size to 256 would mitigate the attack to a substantial degree, but user privacy might still be at some risk. In other words, we cannot get ourselves out of this problem by simply raising the ring size.
+
+To use a metaphor, the decoys are like camouflage. In order for the camouflage to protect user privacy, merely having lots camouflage is not enough. We must also ensure that the camouflage is placed in the right locations. My overhaul to the DSA is intended to place the camouflage where it is needed.
+
+# Timeline
+
+By now it is well-established that Monero adversaries are pouring resources into efforts to attack user privacy. The most recent evidence is a [revelation](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/09/21/leaked-slides-show-how-chainalysis-flags-crypto-suspects-for-cops/) that Chainalysis is privately claiming to produce useful leads to law enforcement based on Monero transactions. A [healthy](https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/psos06/comment/hdshs84) [skepticism](https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/psos06/comment/hds2zkj) of these claims is, of course, warranted. However, given that I have now proven that it is possible to develop a practical statistical attack on Monero user privacy, *the fuse is lit*, so to speak. Monero adversaries may be able to develop a statistical attack -- or they may have already done so. An overhaul to the DSA should be developed and deployed as quickly as possible.
+
+The upcoming hard fork, which does not yet have a fixed date, will include an increase in the ring size. The discontinuity that the hard fork creates can be leveraged to better understand how ring signatures work in pratcice on the Monero blockchain. Therefore, some of the research work will occur after the hard fork.
+
+I will work with @j-berman and @mj to develop and implement OSPEAD, as they outlined in [their own](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/j-berman-3-months-full-time.html) [CSS proposals](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/266). In order to ensure a degree of peer review of OSPEAD, I am in the process of establishing a scientific review panel of key Monero community members. In the event that the review panel cannot be established for some reason, I will submit Milestone 1 (the fully specified estimation plan) to @luigi1111 to simply verify that it exists, and then combine Milestones 2 and 3.
+
+I estimate that development and implementation of OSPEAD will take 11.5 weeks of full time equivalent (FTE) labor, i.e. 460 hours. I expect the milestone breakdown, in terms of FTE weeks, will look like this:
+
+### Milestone 1: Deliver fully specified estimation plan to the scientific review panel (4.5 weeks FTE)
+
+My submission to the Monero Vulnerability Response Process contains an outline of the plan to implement OSPEAD, but I left it vague in several places due to time constraints. This milestone will involve a full consideration of all potential obstacles and how to surmount them. I will also spend 1.5 FTE weeks researching alternatives to OSPEAD. The review panel will have an opportunity to suggest alterations in the plan at this point in the process.
+
+### Milestone 2: Deliver initial probability density function to the scientific review panel (5 weeks FTE)
+
+This milestone involves implementation of the plan developed for Milestone 1. I will write a full report and submit it to the scientific review panel.
+
+### Milestone 3: Deliver final version of probability density function to Monero developers (2 weeks FTE)
+
+After the scientific review panel examines the report and suggests improvements, a final version of the probability density function for the DSA will be produced. There could be several rounds of review and re-submission depending on circumstances. This finalized probability density function will be delivered to Monero developers for consideration to be included in a subsequent release of the Monero reference wallet. Note that implementation of a new DSA does not require a hard fork of the network (at least for the time being) since Monero's blockchain consensus rules do not require any particular probability density function to be used in the construction of transactions.
+
+The 11.5 FTE weeks of work will not be completely contiguous, but I expect Milestone 3 to be reached by February or March 2022. The timeline is somewhat dependent upon the hard fork schedule. I will set the final expiration date for the proposal, for the purposes of the CCS proposal process, to August 2022.
+
+# Budget
+
+My rate for this work is the XMR equivalent of 100USD/hour, which exactly matches the labor rate of the [Cypher Stack proposal to research Triptych multisig](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/cypherstack-sarang-triptych-research.html). Implementing Triptych in Monero would allow ring sizes of over 100 inputs without a huge increase in transaction sizes.
+
+As I stated above, there is evidence that merely increasing the ring size does not eliminate the statistical vulnerability. In my view, an overhaul to the DSA and an increase in the ring size are of similar importance to protecting Monero user privacy. Therefore, I believe it is appropriate to match the labor rate of the Triptych multisig research effort.
+
+100USD/hour is also consistent with compensation for statistical consulting in the competitive labor market. According to the [American Statistical Association 2020 Work and Salary Survey,](https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/YCR-2020WorkandSalarySurvey.pdf) statisticians at the median earn 186,750USD/year and 175,000USD/year in consulting or private industry roles, respectively, which translates to 97USD/hour and 91USD/hour.
+
+Note that if this CCS proposal is not funded, I will have to halt virtually all of my Monero work due to incurring high opportunity costs. I will need to shift my attention back to BCH and accelerate my work on analyzing the CashFusion CoinJoin protocol, since the BCH community has already demonstrated willingness to fund that work.
+
+The median daily closing exchange rate for USD/XMR over the last 30 days was 269USD/XMR. Therefore, the total cost of this CCS proposal is 171 XMR, with milestones 1, 2, and 3 corresponding to 67 XMR, 74 XMR, and 30 XMR, respectively.
+
+# About me
+
+I am an empirical microeconomist trained in the neoclassical tradition. That means that I primarily use real-world data, rather than mathematical theory, to investigate economic questions at the level of consumers, businesses, and industries. I have chosen to remain pseudonymous, and therefore my training and extant body of work are neither identified nor verifiable. However, I do have some publicly-available work associated with this Rucknium identity, which was created in June 2021:
+
+1.  Statistical contributions to [the analysis of the mid-2021 Monero transaction volume anomaly](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/pvm634/fingerprinting_a_flood_forensic_statistical/), particularly on the subject of [ring member age](https://github.com/Rucknium/xmr_volume_anomaly/blob/main/Noise-reduced-measure-of-youngest-ring-member.R).
+2.  Development of [a sketch of a plan to recruit technical talent for the Monero Project](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/pkg3d6/the_monero_project_should_actively_recruit/).
+3.  4,000 lines of code contributed to [TownforgeR](https://github.com/Rucknium/TownforgeR), an alternative user interface for [Townforge](https://townforge.net/), which is a blockchain-based game primarily coded by @moneromooo-monero that is a heavily modified fork of Monero. I introduced wallet operations, a web-based custodial wallet option, an order book visualizer, a map of buildings, an inter-building influence map, and a land plot chooser based on a modified grid search optimizer. [Live version](https://townforger.net/).
+4.  [An automated market maker bot for Townforge's commodity order books](https://github.com/Rucknium/TownforgeMMbot) that accepts investments of commodities and currency and issues in-game shares that will be used to pay dividends to player-investors.
+5.  [A Townforge invitation faucet webapp](https://github.com/Rucknium/townforgefaucet) with a Beowulf-based CAPTCHA. The webapp also accepts contributions of invitation codes from any Townforge players, validating all submissions against a Townforge node running on a VPS. [Live version](https://townforgefaucet.net).
+6.  Initiation of [the CashFusion Red Team](https://flipstarter.redteam.cash/) research project, including the [fusionstats.redteam.cash](http://fusionstats.redteam.cash/) web app.
+7.  Article: [An Empirical Analysis of Satoshi Pyramid](https://read.cash/@Rucknium/scheme-or-scam-an-empirical-analysis-of-satoshi-pyramid-d3c79192).
+8.  [Preliminary analysis of Monero cryptography benchmark data](https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/tree/main/Monero-Cryptography-Benchmarks).
+
+# Disclosures
+
+I am involved in a few cryptocurrency initiatives that involve or may involve monetary compensation. I believe that none of them give rise to any conflicts of interest with the objectives of this CCS proposal:
+
+**CashFusion Red Team**. I am conducting an analysis of the strength of the privacy guarantees of CashFusion, an implementation of the CoinJoin protocol on the BCH blockchain. I have been paid 18 BCH through a [Flipstarter crowdfunding campaign](https://flipstarter.redteam.cash/) to carry out the first phase of this research project.
+
+**Work on the Townforge ecosystem**. I receive no direct compensation for any of this work, since Townforge is a proof-of-work blockchain with no ICO nor pre-mine. However, via CPU mining and playing the game well, my involvement in Townforge may lead to some level of monetary earnings, assuming the in-game currency attains some nonzero market exchange rate with another cryptocurrency like XMR.

Translation-getmonero-german.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Translation of the Moneropedia and User Guides into German
+author: Wobole
+date: September 10, 2020
+amount: 28.5
+milestones:
+  - name: Translation of the Moneropedia
+    funds: 8.6
+    done: 11 December 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Translation of the User Guides
+    funds: 19.9
+    done: 8 February 2021
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 12 December 2020
+    amount: 8.6
+  - date: 15 February 2021
+    amount: 19.9
+---
+
+
+Hello everybody, this is Wobole :)
+
+## What
+I’m proposing to translate both the Moneropedia and the User Guides as well as translating/checking the currently remaining strings (marked as “strings needing action without suggestion”) of the translation of getmonero.org into German.
+Since not everybody in the German speaking world, despite the common assumption, has a sufficient command and understanding of the English language I believe a full localization to be incredibly useful to give each and everyone the possibility to understand how to use Monero. 
+
+## Who
+I am [one of the most active translators on the Monero Weblate platform](https://translate.getmonero.org/stats/). Until this day I translated a significant amount of the GUI wallet, some parts of the CLI wallet and most of the website, all as a volunteer. See [my profile on Weblate](https://translate.getmonero.org/user/Wobole/) for an overview of my activities. I also contributed to translating Monerujo and participated in some discussions on https://www.github.com/monero-ecosystem/monero-translations.
+
+## Proposal and milestones
+This proposal includes two milestones:
+
+1. The translation of the Moneropedia (and translation/check of mentioned strings via Weblate)
+2. The translation of the User Guides
+
+I am asking for a rate of 0,06 Euro/word. The Moneropedia entries comprise about 10,200 words and the User Guides 23,700 words. For the 1st milestone this equals 8.6 XMR and for the 2nd 19.9 XMR.
+
+For the compensation of words counted by my program which actually aren’t supposed to be translated, I’m going to translate/check the “strings needing action without suggestions” of the website via Weblate (which includes reviewing the pending suggestions, even though until now I cannot review much since most of them are made by me). Additionally, I will have a look at the current translation regarding the consistency of terminology (mainly because it bothers me myself otherwise :)). 
+
+I am giving my best to deliver a high quality translation – not least because I am an apologist of correct orthography and grammar. If this proposal gets funded, I will start to work on the translations immediately; I am expecting to finish the milestones in two months.
+
+Thank you for reading!

adrelanos-debian-package.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: "Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years"
+amount: 73
+author: Patrick Schleizer
+date: 15 April 2020
+milestones:
+  - name: "Monero Debian Package Initial Packaging"
+    funds: 50% (37 XMR)
+    done: 31 December 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: "Monero Debian Package Maintenance 2021"
+    funds: 25% (18 XMR)
+    done: 31 December 2021
+    status: finished
+  - name: "Monero Debian Package Maintenance 2022"
+    funds: 25% (18 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 18 February 2021
+    amount: 37
+  - date: 21 March 2022
+    amount: 18
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+### Importance to the Monero Community
+
+Ease of installation and timely software upgrade on popular stable Linux distributions such as Debian is important to gain better usability and greater adaption.
+
+A higher share of privacy conscious users are using Linux rather than Windows.
+
+This is also a preparatory step for installation of Monero by default in (privacy focused) Linux operating systems such as Whonix (which I happen to be the founder). Other Debian based Linux distributions such as Tails (also privacy focused) are welcome to use the package as well.
+
+### User Experience
+
+Instructions for users, simplified.
+
+How to install monero GUI using apt-get
+
+Download the repository signing key.
+
+    wget https://www.whonix.org/patrick.asc
+
+Add the signing key.
+
+    sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/monero.gpg add ~/patrick.asc
+
+Add APT repository.
+
+    echo "deb https://deb.whonix.org buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/monero.list
+
+Update your package lists.
+
+    sudo apt-get update
+
+Install monero-gui.
+
+    sudo apt-get install monero-gui
+
+### Technical Implementation Details
+
+The focus is the user. Usability. No frills.
+
+I would simply grab the monero-gui binaries provided by getmonero.org, download them, check software (gpg) signatures, put these into deb packages, add these to a Debian package repository, and upload the repository.
+
+What I would not do is creating the binaries during package build process. While this is nice to have, it doesn't help user experience and blocks the progress on reaching this goal. See next chapter.
+
+The monero-gui binary includes it all:
+
+* monero-wallet-gui
+* monero-wallet-cli
+* monerod
+
+Therefore monero-gui package would come with all of that too. The package would be usable by both, desktop and headless computers.
+
+Hosting on whonix.org rather than getmonero.org to keep maintenance effort low. Therefore no coordination with getmonero.org DNS required. Saves money for purchasing a domain. Contributes to decentralization since the maintainer of Whonix would maintain the Monero Debian packages independently. Maintaining another package on the domain which hosts many packages already is lower effort than a completely separate Debian package repository.
+
+`packages.debian.org` is out of scope since Debian does not upgrade often enough to keep up with Monero fork cycle and for other reasons as well.
+
+64 bit only.
+
+The contents of monero-gui will be placed in folder `/usr/share/monero/monero-gui-v0.14.1.0`, unmodified. Folder `/usr/bin` will contain wrapper scripts pointing to the binaries in `/usr/share/monero/monero-gui-v0.14.1.0`.
+
+### Why simply put the pre-build Monero binaries into a deb package?
+
+1) After bitcoin existing for more than 10 years, being popular and being in Debian unstable (sid) it still never made its way into Debian testing, let alone stable. Reason being explained that a difference in underlying libraries (even just security fixes) during compilation may result in a network split. Binaries compiled during packaging on different versions of Linux distributions might have different libraries that might cause a network fork / chain split.
+
+References:
+
+* https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bitcoin-qt
+* https://packages.debian.org/sid/bitcoin-qt
+* [upstream does not support stable releases (block migration to testing)](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718272)
+
+(Note: above website saying Tags: `fixed-upstream` is probably a mistake as discussion at bottom says.)
+
+2) The [github issue of packaging monero](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/2395) stalled.
+
+3) By shipping the same binaries as provided by getmonero.org reduces the chances of introducing a backdoor.
+
+### Included in the First Milestone
+
+* Monero in a Debian repository. `deb https://deb.whonix.org buster main` as per above `User Experience`.
+* User documentation on how to install the `monero-gui` package from the repository.
+* Build documentation detailing how to build the package oneself.
+* Use the usual Whonix news channels to call for testers. Fix any bugs that users might report.
+* Simplification of [Monero users instructions for Whonix users](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Monero) saying "install this package".
+* Test monero GUI in Debian buster, Whonix and Qubes Debian buster template.
+* Start menu entries.
+* Replying to (most) (reasonable) unanswered support requests related to the packaging.
+
+### Non-Goals
+
+Installation of Monero by default in Whonix. While Monero will very likely be installed by default in Whonix it is not guaranteed and not part of this proposal. I've already posted a number of comments on monero GUI issue tracker which should help to ensure that Monero keeps suitable for installation by default in Whonix, see [this list](https://forums.whonix.org/t/supporting-monero-as-the-default-cryptocurrency/6410/14).
+
+### Funding for First Milestone
+
+2000 USD
+
+(Includes initial packaging and and maintenance until the end of the year 2020.)
+
+### Timeline
+
+Doable quickly within 1 week.
+
+By comparison, the electrum (bitcoin) AppImage was recently added to a Debian package (binaries-freedom) by me and is now easily installable in Whonix. Pre-installed in stable version of Whonix already.
+
+### Ongoing Maintenance Cost
+
+* year 2021: 1000 USD
+* year 2022: 1000 USD
+
+### About Me
+
+I am the founder of [Whonix](https://www.whonix.org/), which I am maintaining at present for more than 8 years.
+
+Whonix (formerly TorBOX) is a Debian GNU/Linuxbased security-focused Linux distribution. It aims to provide privacy, security and anonymity on the internet.
+
+You can see an overview of packages I am maintaining on [my github profile](https://github.com/adrelanos).
+
+To proof that this monero gitlab account `adrelanos` corresponds the same person maintaining whonix.org, it is added [here](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Official_Whonix_Online_Profiles).
+
+[This idea was previously discussed on reddit.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/cowjun/idea_proposal_monero_debian_deb_packages_debian/)
+
+### Credits
+
+Thanks to @rehrar for helping me with this proposal!

anon-dev-monero-meme-site.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Monero Meme Site | Get Tipped For Monero Memes
+author: AnonDev
+date: June 25th, 2021
+amount: 10 XMR
+milestones:
+  - name: Finish Site and Launch it
+    funds: 5 XMR
+    done: 18 August 2021
+    status: finished
+  - name: Market Website and Get 1st 50 Memes
+    funds: 5 XMR
+    done: 18 August 2021
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 21 October 2021
+    amount: 10
+---
+
+My proposal is to develop, design, market, host, and maintain a website for Monero memes. Meme creators will be able to get tips for their hard work. Meme creators will finally be able to quit their jobs and meme full time. The project will be open source and full of memes.
+
+I will complete the proposal. I love Monero and wants to help get it the recognition it deserves. I have 10 years of development experience (including blockchain) and have experience in marketing.
+
+This project is very important to the community because it will increase memes. Memes help Monero with marketing and reaching new audiences. Creators of Monero memes will be able to get paid which will incentivize them to make more memes. Monero is the best project in the space but the marketing could be better.
+
+My milestones are simple. I am asking for 5 XMR once the website is live and project has been completed. I am then asking for the last 5 XMR once 50 memes (original content, not old) have been posted by users.
+
+I am asking for an expiration date of October 15th. The development should take me 1-2 weeks to complete and getting the first 50 posts should take a few months maximum (Hopefully a lot faster).

anon-perfect-peer-to-peer-protocol.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: "anon: perfect peer to peer protocol from bottom to top"
+author: anon
+date: 24 Jan 2021
+amount: 240.12021
+milestones:
+  - name: Feb.
+    funds: 33% (80.04007 XMR)
+    done: 10 July 2021
+    status: finished
+  - name: Mar.
+    funds: 33% (80.04007 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Apr.
+    funds: 33% (80.04007 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 11 July 2021
+    amount: 80.04007
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+## What
+
+~~~
+Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
+
+On the way to perfect monero blockchain synchronization daemon
+  which is correct, simple and efficient.
+
+On the way to perfect peer to peer protocol implementation that
+  forbids arbitrary devitation in peers behavior,
+  balances available resources between unsynchronized and synchronized peers,
+  keeps new block propogation latency as low as possible.
+
+All related layers hierarchy:
+     input/output loop
+            v
+          socket
+            v
+        ssl socket
+            v
+        connection
+            v
+     abstract tcp server
+            v
+     levin protocol + portable storage
+            v
+         net node
+            v
+    cryptonote protocol + core rpc server
+            v
+     cryptonote core + crypto
+            v
+      blockchain db + tx pool
+
+The following layers are not correct:
+  ssl socket,
+  connection,
+  abstract tcp server,
+  net node,
+  cryptonote protocol,
+  tx pool.
+
+The following layers are very inefficient:
+  portable storage.
+
+All above layers aren't simple.
+
+There are few critical errors that must be fixed first:
+  segfaults,
+  enormous RAM usage,
+  enormous CPU load,
+  deadlocks,
+  unexpected delays in asynchronous code.
+
+Work will be done in the following order:
+  fix critical errors,
+  simplify,
+  fix incorrect behvaiour,
+  simplify,
+  add new changes,
+  simplify,
+  increase efficiency,
+  simplify.
+
+The above final aim and related scope require much more than 3 months work.
+~~~
+
+## Who
+
+~~~
+anon
+~~~
+
+## Proposal
+
+~~~
+Dedicate at least 3 months (12 hours per each day including weekends) to Monero Project for a total of 240.12021 XMR.
+~~~