plowsof_6_ccs_coordinator.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: plowsof CCS Coordinator 
+author: plowsof
+date: April 1, 2025
+amount: 72.60
+milestones:
+  - name: Month 1
+    funds: 24.2
+    status: unfinished
+    done:
+  - name: Month 2
+    funds: 24.2
+    status: unfinished
+    done:
+  - name: Month 3
+    funds: 24.2
+    status: unfinished
+    done:
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+# Who?
+
+Hello, plowsof here, I show up and try to be helpful. My [previous](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/plowsof-com-rel.html) [proposals](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/plowsof-ccs-coordinator-2.html) [happened](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/418), [previously](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/plowsof-ccs-coordinator-4.html) [again](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/ccs-coordinator-5-plowsof.html). I would like to make it happen again, and do more of the same things.
+
+# What?
+
+- Gather consensus for CCS proposals. (feedback from GitLab/IRC/Reddit).
+- Organise bi-weekly meetings to discuss proposals / current events (more if necessary).
+- Provide decisions in 1 month or less (Yes/No to being funded or if something has to be changed with the proposal to satisfy our community).
+- Be impartial when communicating with CCS proposers - everyone gets a fair shake.
+- Checking up on the WIP list to find / fix problems early (e.g. payments overdue or proposers AWOL).
+- Take responsibility for the entire CCS process - It's my fault when 'things go wrong'.
+- Someone who is online for several hours a day / 7 days a week that knows what's going on.
+- Act as a liaison to Core - keep them informed of whats happening / poke them when required / handle their requests.
+    - As part of this CCS, you will also be sponsoring my work when quality assurance testing new features/bug fixes each release cycle in the GUI, CLI, and RPC wallets.
+    - And Getmonero.org contributions.
+- Consultancy before / during / after the idea stage.
+- Secretarial tasks for https://bounties.monero.social/ (requesting payouts upon completion of bounties and such)
+
+
+## Proposal
+Work for 25 hours per week over the next 3 months (from April to end of June 2025) at a rate of 45€ / hour. At 201.72€ / XMR (90-day EMA) this makes ~72.60 XMR.

pwrcycle-Defcon_Monero_Party_2019.md

 ---
-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: "Defcon Monero Party 2019"
 author: pwrcycle
 date: March 11, 2019
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ amount: 57
 milestones:
   - name: Prepare to throw the party
     funds: 57
-    done: 
-    status: unfinished
+    done: June 19, 2019
+    status: finished
 payouts:
-  - date: 
-    amount:
+  - date: June 19, 2019
+    amount: 57 XMR
 
 ---
 ### Proposal ###

r4v3r23-anonero-v1.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: ANONERO version 1.0
+author: r4v3r23
+date: April 12, 2024
+amount: 199.265
+milestones:
+  - name: Inital payment
+    funds: 20% (39.853 XMR)
+    done: 29 April 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: Payment for first test build
+    funds: 40 % (79.706 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Payment for completion
+    funds: 40 % (79.706 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 29 April 2024
+    amount: 39.853
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+
+
+# Who
+
+ANONERO project, creators of the security & privacy focused Monero wallets ANON & NERO.
+
+# What
+
+
+Migrating our codebase to Android's native language Kotlin with Jetpack Compose UI. 
+
+When we first started the project, we bootstrapped development by using a combination of xmrwallet's Java code and Flutter. This allowed for fast interations and great UI performance, but as the app grew with more advanced features, the Native <> Java <> Flutter layers proved to be a bottleneck.
+
+Now that we have a working Proof of Concept alpha wallet, and are much more familiar with the Monero codebase, we've decided to move the app to a new framework that's better suited to our feature set. This will give us a solid, stable codebase and make future developement much easier.
+
+As part of our commitment to privacy & security and using the latest features, ANONERO has contributed to Monero, directly and indirectly, in various ways:
+
+ 1) First fully airgapped DIY HWW cold storage solution: https://monero.town/post/223593
+ 
+ 2) First working implementation of background sync via view-keys
+
+ 3) Helped identify, debug, and fix issue where Polyseed was failing to build on 32-bit Android: https://github.com/tevador/polyseed/issues/5
+
+ 4) Helped identify, debug, and test fix for the DNS leak when using onion nodes: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8849
+ 
+ 5) Helped discover bug where key images weren't being passed by signed tx payload: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9049
+ 
+ 6) Discovered background sync bug which caused all cached blocks to be erased: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8619#issuecomment-1808920063
+ 
+ 7) Helped test tobtoht's upcoming [Polyseed](https://github.com/tevador/polyseed) patch to monero core
+ 
+ 8) Worked with tobtoht to improve offline-signing UX
+ 
+We'll continue to adopt and test new features and upstream fixes to core if/when they arise during the CCS.
+
+# Proposal
+
+Instead of guesstimating work hours and giving an hourly rate, we are asking for an amount that will guarantee funding for the entire wallet rewrite. 
+
+Monerujo's Sidekick project raised 181.15 XMR, and seeing as we addressed the community's concerns by shipping the feature fully airgapped using animated QR codes, we are asking the community to match that amount, plus 10% for misc things like hosting, documentation, website improvement etc for a total of 199.265 XMR.  
+
+For the past year and a half we relied on our small community to help fund us, and now that we've proven we can deliver, we are requesting 20% upfront to start development:
+ 
+- Milestone 1:  39.853 XMR (20%) paid upfront upon funding
+  
+- Milestone 2:  79.706 XMR (40%) paid upon release of first test build (corresponding to v0.5)
+
+- Milestone 3:  79.706 XMR (40%) paid upon final feature-complete release
+
+Progress will be posted on our repo http://git.anonero.io (onion redirect) and we will begin open testing as soon as we can.
+
+CCS will expire one year from date of first payout and funds can be send to the General Fund.

randybrito-locha-mesh.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "[Monero Aligned] Locha Mesh, a resilient long-range radio mesh network"
+author: "Randy Brito (@randybrito | @rdymac | @btcven)"
+date: 19 January 2020
+amount: 150
+milestones:
+  - name: Month 1
+    funds: 50 XMR
+    done: 24 May 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Month 2
+    funds: 50 XMR
+    done: 24 May 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Month 3
+    funds: 50 XMR
+    done: 20 July 2020
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 26 May 2020
+    amount: 100
+  - date: 20 July 2020
+    amount: 50
+---
+
+### What
+
+Advance the development of the Locha Mesh open-source software and hardware (https://github.com/btcven/locha) to enable private transactions broadcasting and sync without Internet over a resilient decentralized censorship-resistant mesh network using encrypted long-range radio communications.
+
+
+### Who & Why
+
+I’m Randy Brito, the founder of http://BitcoinVenezuela.com and co-founder CEO of Locha Mesh (@Locha_io).
+
+At Locha Mesh we are creating the open-source software and hardware for real mesh network devices that will enable secure and private communications and transactions without Internet. The Locha Mesh will also enable access to censorship-resistant websites and information, without people having to post their Internet IP address or SIM card which is linked to their identity, so communications could be completely private.
+
+The firmware that runs on the hardware, the hardware specification itself for creating your DIY Locha Mesh device, the mobile app and other software can be found in our GitHub organization, hosted by the non-profit Bitcoin Venezuela (https://github.com/btcven).
+
+What we've been doing at Bitcoin Venezuela for Monero over the years:
+
+- I've recommended the use of Monero in Venezuela for years due to its privacy features.
+- Bitcoin Venezuela's prices API have been showing the real market XMRVEF rate for years (used by CakeWallet). Latest version 2.0 has also been showing XMRVES and keeping historical of both (https://api.bitcoinvenezuela.com/v2/historical/?pair=XMRVEF).
+- I own MoneroVenezuela.com and MoneroVenezuela.org since 2016 to keep these domain names away from scammers trying to steal from Venezuelans.
+
+
+### How does the Locha Mesh help Monero?
+
+We are creating the software and hardware (our own boards and also the specification for a DIY version of it) for anyone to be able to connect to the Locha Mesh to transmit data securely and privately. So the Locha Mesh will enable what we intend to be an alternative communication channel for syncing nodes without having to go through the over-controlled censorable traditional Internet infrastructure.
+
+In the past two years people have tried to transmit Bitcoin transactions over long-range radio, but they've been using hardware that is very limited, closed-source, and also on licensed bands that need the operator to get a Government license to be able to transmit. We at Locha Mesh are creating a real high-bandwidth open mesh network, using license-free bands, that is capable of handling not only block headers and transactions (which are very small in size) but also block sync and other more useful features, like the IPv6 support so services can run inside the Locha Mesh.
+
+
+### This Proposal and Milestones
+
+Monthly pay: 50 xmr (or ~$3,500.00 USD)
+
+This monthly pay covers the cost of two full-time developers working on the Locha Mesh core code.
+
+Total: 150 XMR
+
+Milestones:
+- Improve documentation for Monero developers who want to contribute to Locha Mesh code (first month).
+- Improve documentation on how to build a DIY version of the Locha Mesh devices for developers to join efforts (1-2 months).
+- Monero will be mentioned in the backers sections at https://github.com/btcven/locha home of the Locha Mesh open-source project, also at the documentation website when it is published, and whenever opportunities arise on social media (1-2 months).
+- Work with Monero Outreach to promote Locha Mesh and the support from Monero, as well as translate documentation into other languages (3 months).
+- Demo of the Turpial devices sending messages over a radio mesh network (3 months).
+
+Payments: 3 payments of 50 XMR (or ~$3,500.00 USD), one for each month (paid in XMR)
+
+This proposal can be reviewed in a month by month basis, and terminated at any given month if the Monero community agrees on that.
+
+
+### In the long term
+
+When previous milestones have been achieved and thanks to the contributions of the Monero community we would have been able to get closer to a deployment-ready state, these are some of the tasks we could work on that could be added in future proposals.
+
+Future Roadmap:
+- Research of what would be needed to be able to `submit_transaction` of an off-line `signed_monero_tx` file using gateways to reach the Monero network
+- Details of the finished revision of the Turpial hardware that will be the production-ready device
+- The Locha Mesh working as a production-ready product for private messaging over a decentralized mesh network of long-range radio devices
+- The implementation of `submit_transaction` of an off-line `signed_monero_tx` file using Turpial devices or DIY versions to reach gateways in the Locha Mesh
+- Synchronizing a Monero node over the Locha Mesh
+- Open-sourcing the hardware of the Turpial device. We could do this, but it would need a substantial amount so we are able to cover the costs of the ongoing development of the Locha Mesh for a couple years at least, if raised development of both the software and hardware would not need to depend on VC money
+
+
+### Where to follow progress
+
+Regular updates will be shared by myself and the development team (changelogs) with features that have been finished and worked on each month (at least monthly) in our Twitter: @Locha_io , the updates section at GitHub (https://github.com/btcven/locha) with the Locha Mesh's core features being implemented, and our website: https://locha.io
+
+
+### Contact
+
+Randy Brito: randy@locha.io | contacto@bitcoinvenezuela.com
+
+GPG: 637E 773C F6DD EE8F 009F 8461 6930 CFE7 0FA4 130C
+
+If you prefer ProtonMail: bitcoinvenezuela@protonmail.com

rating89us-1.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: rating89us part-time Monero GUI UI/UX development (3 months)
+author: rating89us
+date: 30 June 2021
+amount: 48.31
+milestones:
+  - name: July
+    funds: 33% (16.10 XMR)
+    done: 15 August 2021
+    status: finished
+  - name: August
+    funds: 33% (16.10 XMR)
+    done: 15 September 2021
+    status: finished
+  - name: September
+    funds: 33% (16.11 XMR)
+    done: 30 November 2021
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 6 December 2021
+    amount: 48.31
+---
+
+## What
+
+Hi, everyone! I am rating89us and this is my first CCS proposal. I have been doing voluntary (unpaid) contributions to Monero GUI on my free time since 2020, adding new UI elements, improving UX and fixing bugs. While Monero GUI has improved a lot during the last years, there is still a lot of work to be done. I'm really motivated in making Monero GUI easy to use by anyone.
+
+Some things I want to work on:
+-	General: add tooltips where still necessary, improve displaying of wallet > accounts hierarchy, discreet mode (hide amounts/balances on all pages); implement tip of the day popup; implement user onboarding popups when the wallet is opened for the first time
+-	LeftPanel: redesign synchronization progress bars, Socks5 proxy/TOR icon
+- Send: display "All" amount as a label with close button
+-	Address book: user avatars, sorting
+-	Transactions: amount filtering, sent/received filtering, historical fiat price
+-	Settings: create a dedicated page to synchronization process, redesign Node page, add "change restore height" menu item
+-	Merchant: redesign merchant page, UI/UX for tablets/smartphones
+-	Wizard: redesign hardware wallet page, create a dedicated page to seed and restore height
+-	Accessibility: add description/navigation for UI elements (support screen readers for visually impaired users)
+-	White theme: improve color contrast of UI elements
+-	Upgrade FontAwesome icons to last version
+-	Android: test and improve UI/UX for tablets/smartphones
+-	Test and review UI/UX pull requests
+-	Update text and screenshots of Monero GUI guides (pdf guide and getmonero.org user guides)
+
+## Who
+
+rating89us, I have been contributing voluntarily to Monero GUI since 2020 with over 77 merged commits. 
+
+Here is a list of my previous merged commits on Monero GUI:
+- Pull requests: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+author%3Arating89us+is%3Aclosed
+- Commits: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/commits?author=rating89us
+
+If funded I will provide monthly updates in the CCS comment section.
+
+## Proposal
+
+Work for 20 hours per week over the next 3 months (from Mid July to Mid October) at a rate of 38€/hour. At 188.75€/XMR on Kraken (14-day EMA) this makes 48.31 XMR.

rehrar-36c3-expenses.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: rehrar to 36C3
+author: rehrar
+date: October 17, 2019
+amount: 58.65
+milestones:
+  - name: Payout to purchase the things
+    funds: 58.65
+    done: October 11, 2019
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: October 11, 2019
+    amount: 58.65
+---
+
+Heyo everyone. Welcome back to another edition of "rehrar asks for money to do Monero related things". In this episode, rehrar wants to go back to C3. So I guess this one is called rehrar to C3 2: Return of Jafar.
+
+Basically, similar to last year, I want to go help at 36C3. Last year I was the MC, did general coordination, and helped to run the floor and speeches, as well as giving a few speeches on my own.
+
+The costs to send me to Leipzig is as follows:
+
+Flight	1700
+
+Hotel	630
+
+Incidentals	565
+
+Ticket	140
+
+For a total of 3035. 
+
+Converted to XMR (With a 10% buffer):
+58.65 XMR.
+
+IF the community thinks I would be of value to go to C3, then let's get this tagged and bagged. Thanks all!

rehrar-defcon-reimburse-2019.md

 ---
-layout: fr
+layout: cp
 title: Defcon 2019 Volunteer Reimbursement
 author: rehrar
 date: May 20, 2019
@@ -7,42 +7,42 @@ amount: 137
 gitlab_url: "https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/69"
 milestones:
   - name: Person 1 paid
-    funds: 24.5
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    funds: 24.5 XMR
+    done: June 18, 2019
+    status: finished
   - name: Person 2 paid
-    funds: 22.5
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    funds: 22.5 XMR
+    done: June 18, 2019
+    status: finished
   - name: Person 3 paid
-    funds: 10.9
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    funds: 10.9 XMR
+    done: June 18, 2019
+    status: finished
   - name: Person 4 paid
-    funds: 28.2
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    funds: 28.2 XMR
+    done: June 18, 2019
+    status: finished
   - name: Person 5 paid
-    funds: 27.4
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    funds: 27.4 XMR
+    done: June 18, 2019
+    status: finished
   - name: Scholarships paid
-    funds: 23.5
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    funds: 23.5 XMR
+    done: July 9, 2019
+    status: finished
 payouts:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: June 18, 2019
+    amount: 24.5 XMR
+  - date: June 18, 2019
+    amount: 22.5 XMR
+  - date: June 18, 2019
+    amount: 10.9 XMR
+  - date: June 18, 2019
+    amount: 28.2 XMR
+  - date: June 18, 2019
+    amount: 27.4 XMR
+  - date: July 9, 2019
+    amount: 23.5 XMR
 ---
 
 What's up everyone? Your friendly neighborhood rehrar here.

rehrar-help-out.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: rehrar help the project
+author: rehrar
+date: June 29, 2024
+amount: 75
+milestones:
+  - name: Month 1
+    funds: 25
+    done: 23 August 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: Month 2
+    funds: 25
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Month 3
+    funds: 25
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 26 August 2024
+    amount: 25
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+# Who, what, when, where?
+
+Hi, I'm Diego "rehrar" Salazar. I run [Cypher Stack](https://cypherstack.com), and me and my team make [Stack Wallet](https://stackwallet.com). I also did work for the core team once upon a time.
+
+I was recently approached my luigi, of the current core team about retaking on some of my old duties. There's a lot of opportunity for improvement in the non-dev areas of the project, and not always enough hands to get it done. It was agreed upon that, were this to happen, this would be done through the CCS rather than through Core as before. This moves me from being accountable to core, to accountable to the community.
+
+A quick summary of what I'd be working on (requested by luigi):
+- Presiding over and helping along a Monero Website Workgroup to merge requests, keep it up to date, and do odds and ends of design and development
+- Facilitating moderator relationships and fostering community in relevant social platforms
+- Being a leader in the Monero Community workgroup and helping that along as needed
+- Keeping a finger on the "pulse of the community" in the various chat rooms and platforms (Telegram, Discord, IRC, Matrix, Reddit, etc.)
+- Assisting plowsof as needed in CCS work (working under him for various tasks if needed)
+- Aiding and assisting in event work as needed
+- Utilizing my "soft skills" as needed elsewhere on the project.
+
+# Why?
+There's lots of non-dev stuff to do, and not so many people to do it. I am capable and willing.
+
+# How long? How much?
+
+75 XMR for three months for half time work. Possibility of renewal depending on community sentiment.
+
+# Deliverables
+I will do all of the above in the beginning section, and give a monthly report to the community on what's been done, and tasks accomplished. The primary metric I will rate myself on though, is how big of a help I am to luigi in terms of taking workload off of his shoulders.
+
+# COI
+My company Cypher Stack does occassional work for Monero in the form of the following:
+- Dan "pigeons" Miller who helps with infrastructure work is employed by Cypher Stack. We typically do anywhere from 5-10 hours a month for Monero here. We are currently doing this work pro bono.
+- Cypher Stack's cryptographer, Aaron Feickert, does occassional research work for Monero. This is funded either by the CCS, or the new Research Fund that has been funded by the CCS.
+- I own and operate Stack Wallet, an open-source, multicoin wallet, of which Monero is supported.
+- I and all of my employees do occassional work for other clients, many of them in the privacy or crypto sphere. Several of them privacy coins themselves.
\ No newline at end of file

rehrar-sarang-2019-wcc.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: World Crypto Con for rehrar and Sarang
+author: rehrar
+date: July 17, 2019
+amount: 30
+milestones:
+  - name: Payout rehrar
+    funds: 13.4
+    done: 23 August 2019
+    status: finished
+  - name: Payout sarang
+    funds: 16.6
+    done: 23 August 2019
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 23 August 2019
+    amount: 13.4
+  - date: 23 August 2019
+    amount: 16.6
+---
+
+What up everyone, it's your boy rehrar.
+
+So here's the skinny. Last year, as part of my [2018 World Tour](https://forum.getmonero.org/22/completed-tasks/90717/the-rehrar-tour) I went to the World Crypto Con in Las Vegas. I was joined by the renowed Daniel Kim and, may I say, we tore it up. What does that mean? Well, it means we sat at a donated sponsor table and talked to people interested in Monero from dawn until dusk. Seriously. Like, as everyone was tearing down all around us, we were still sitting at our booth (even when they took away the table) and were engaged in conversation. Tons of people heard about Monero and what made it different. You can read my full report [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/9uj0jh/world_crypto_con_report/) I can't stress this enough, but we were flooded with people, and didn't have enough time or manpower to speak with them all. A good problem to have.
+
+This year, we want to do the same. But bigger and better. WCC has invited us back, same terms as before, and they want Monero to have a role as one of the speakers. October 28th-November 1st. They're expanding to have a developer's conference as well, and I managed to weasel sarang into one of the speaking slots. 
+
+Enter you guys. As always, none of us is charging for our time. We're just asking for help with travel expenses. We're staying in a MUCH cheaper hotel than the Cosmopolitan (where the event is hosted), and we'll walk there every day. What is the community getting? 100% table time by myself, sarang, and Daniel Kim (who plans to attend this year again), and a talk by sarang to the populace. Daniel and I have both submitted talks as well, and they're deciding if they want us there (main track or dev track or none).
+
+We're asking 30 XMR which covers both sarang and I's flights, hotel, incidentals, and meals. A 10% price movement buffer is included. Further info available to core team upon request (to preserve privacy). Milestones to be paid out as soon as funding is completed (if moved and funded, of course) so that we can make the reservations ASAP.
+
+Questions? Comments? Criticisms? Complaints?
\ No newline at end of file

research-post-quantum-monero.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Research post-quantum strategies for Monero
+author: Insight
+date: May 20, 2020
+amount: 576
+milestones:
+  - name: Initial payout
+    funds: 100% (576 XMR)
+    done: 14 July 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Identify and document existing vulnerabilities in Monero
+    funds: 0% (0 XMR)
+    done: September 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Research Monero-compatible post-quantum cryptography methods
+    funds: 0% (0 XMR)
+    done: September 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Communicate and Educate
+    funds: 0% (0 XMR)
+    done: October 2020
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 14 July 2020
+    amount: 576
+---
+![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/insight-decentralized-consensus-lab/monero_quantum_resistance/master/images/dual_logos.png)
+# Identifying practical post-quantum strategies for Monero
+
+## Motivation:
+Monero transactions created between 2014 and 2020 utilize cryptographic mechanisms that were not designed to be private or secure against quantum computers. Algorithms that could theoretically circumvent several of Monero's security and privacy features are already known, such as [Shor's algorithm](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/365700/) (which [breaks security](https://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=jas.2005.1692.1712) based on the discrete logarithm problem) and [Grover's algorithm](https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605043) (which could be used to [forge blocks](https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/17-4039-blockchain-and-quantum-computing.pdf)). 
+
+Let us define a hypothetical “practical” quantum computer as any device that enables an adversary to effectively circumvent some security expectation provided by cryptographic mechanisms. This is not defined by some magic number of qubits or any particular configuration; it refers to the **capability** to leverage methods such as Fourier fishing, Grover's algorithm, or Shor's algorithm with enough complexity to tackle modern cryptography. **Speculation on whether practical quantum computers will ever exist, and when they might arrive, is outside the scope of this cryptography research proposal.**
+
+There are several ways that a sophisticated quantum adversary might access funds and sensitive information that would otherwise be cryptographically obfuscated:
+
+- **Deriving private keys from public keys**: A quantum adversary that has obtained your public wallet address can derive your private key. This enables them to learn your entire (past and subsequent) transaction history, and steal any current/future funds by forging a transaction from you to themselves.
+- **Deriving private keys from key images**: A quantum adversary can also break the privacy of some features for every transaction already recorded on the ledger, by using key images to derive transaction private keys.
+- **Deobfuscating the transaction graph**: Each ring signature references several (currently 11) past outputs, only one of which is truly being spent. Deobfuscation refers to analyzing the true flow of funds to eliminate the privacy provided by ring signatures and stealth addresses. Graph matching analyses are already parallelizable on traditional computers, and may be easier for quantum computers.
+- **Consensus mechanism & blockchain immutability**: Monero's proof-of-work algorithm ([RandomX](https://github.com/tevador/RandomX)) involves chaining several (currently 8) operations by a VM, designed like a one way function (such that the input to produce a given output can only be found by brute force). We will evaluate whether this approach can be exploited by quantum computers leveraging methods such as Fourier fishing or Grover's algorithm. The potential ability to forge blocks with a specific hash would defeat blockchain immutability, however this can be mitigated with the addition (i.e. concatenation) of post-quantum hash functions and checksums.
+
+**Retroactive deanonymization puts today's Monero users at the hands of tomorrow's [quantum or classical] adversaries.** If practical quantum computers that can break Monero's encryption arrive at any point in the future, then users' lifelong transaction history willl become public for ingestion by the AdTech industry, stalkers, criminals, and governments. It is irrelevant which party publishes a de-anonymized copy of the Monero blockchain first - the universal evaporation of privacy is irreversible.
+
+Thankfully, cryptographers have developed several post-quantum security and privacy schemes that may be adaptable to Monero. Promising techniques include [zero-knowledge lattice cryptography](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/747.pdf)  based on the [shortest vector problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_problem#Shortest_vector_problem_(SVP)). Methods such as [hash-based ring signatures](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/567.pdf), [GLYPH](https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/766.pdf) (Schnorr-like lattice-based signature scheme), and the cohort of [NIST post-quantum](https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2019/pqc-standardization-process-2nd-round-candidates) candidates were all designed to enable security in a post-quantum world. The [quantum resistant ledger](https://theqrl.org/) is of particular interest due to its extensibility, immutability, and RandomX integration - however no privacy features are currently implemented. Other designs for [anonymous post-quantum cryptocash](https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/716.pdf) have been considered, and the [Halo](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1021.pdf) recursive zero-knowledge proving system offers plausible post-quantum security. Each approach has its own benefits, drawbacks, and space/time complexity - our research recommendations will take into account these practical considerations in addition to theoretical compatibility.
+
+**This research will (1) study and simulate the threats listed above to assess Monero's vulnerability to quantum computers, (2) evaluate post-quantum cryptography scheme candidates to create a roadmap for hardening Monero against quantum adversaries, and (3) openly communicate the results for a variety of audiences.**
+
+The advent of powerful quantum computers will wreak havoc on almost every aspect of our digital infrastructure. Access to sound money (which requires privacy) is a fundamental human right and should be considered a high priority for hardening against quantum adversaries. To our knowledge, there are currently no plausibly post-quantum anonymous currencies in use today, meaning that only short-to-intermediate term financial privacy is available with current technology. The first coin to implement long-term post-quantum privacy features will be in a strong position for adoption, even long before quantum computers arrive.
+
+>"A post-quantum world would destroy Amazon, Wells Fargo, Visa, and most world governments. But there's no reason it has to also destroy Monero." 
+>
+> _Surae Noether_
+
+## Overview:
+
+R & D Institution: Insight
+
+Funding Institution: Monero CCS
+
+Duration: 3 months (June - August 2020)
+
+Contributors:
+
+- Researcher in Residence: Adam Corbo
+  - Decentralized Consensus Fellow at Insight
+  - Developed open-source proof-of-concept quantum PoW miner
+  - Expertise translating academic/mathematics research into code 
+  - 2 years of experience in quantum information theory and computation at UC Berkeley
+  - [GitHub](https://github.com/hamburgerguy/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/adamryancorbo/), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-corbo/)
+- Principal Investigator: Mitchell Krawiec-Thayer
+  - Head of Research, Developers in Residence at [Insight](http://www.insightconsensus.com/)
+  - Data Science for Monero Research Lab
+  - Quantum classes & calculations during PhD (in context of spectroscopy research)
+  - [GitHub](https://github.com/mitchellpkt/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Mitchellpkt0), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchellpkt/), [Medium](https://medium.com/@mitchellpkt)
+- Other Insight contributors
+  - Code & documentation reviewers will be assigned as milestones near completion.
+  - Additional thanks to office staff, accounting, etc for creating a productive workspace.
+
+## Project Roadmap:
+
+### Phase 1: Identify and document existing vulnerabilities in Monero
+
+The first phase of this problem will focus on identifying which of Monero's security features are susceptible to quantum adversaries. We'll look for vulnerabilities to known tools such as Shor's algorithm (which can find discrete logarithms is polynomial time, breaking the DL problem), Grover's algorithm (which produces a quadratic speedup when searching for inputs that map to a particular output for any black box function), and Fourier fishing in conjunction with the Deutsch-Josza algorithm (which can potentially be used in taking advantage of Monero's proof of work method in bounded-error quantum polynomial time).
+
+Some vulnerabilities are already known, for example that cryptography based on elliptic curve and the discrete logarithm problem can be made insecure using Shor's algorithm. We will examine Monero's protocol for other examples of security based on problems that are computationally intractable for classical computers and easy for quantum computers. Some current privacy features are thought to be quantum resistant (such as Monero's masked amounts) and we will cautiously verify their security against our algorithmic adversarial toolkit.
+
+**Phase 1 deliverables:** 
+
+-  Formally enumerate adversary model capabilities: Shor's algorithm, Grover's algorithm, Fourier fishing, etc.
+-  Enumerate Monero mechanisms of interest: ring signatures, bulletproofs, stealth addresses, asymmetric cryptography, consensus mechanism, etc.
+-  Systematically assess the impacts of each algorithm on each mechanism, completing this table: 
+
+|                     | Monero mechanism 1 | Monero mechanism 2 | ... |
+|---------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----|
+|  Shor's algorithm   |  Plausibly secure  | Plausibly secure   | ... |
+|  Grover's algorithm | Irrelevant         | **VULNERABLE** | ... |
+| Fourier Fishing     | Plausibly secure   | Irrelevant         | ... |
+| ...                 | ...                | ...                | ... |
+
+### Phase 2: Research Monero-compatible post-quantum cryptography methods
+
+After locating and documenting Monero's quantum vulnerabilities, we will identify alternative cryptographic schemes that mitigate these weaknesses. Known post-quantum systems will be examined for Monero-compatibility (see Appendix 1 for a list of potentially relevant literature to be analyzed). In addition to interoperability, we will note practical considerations related to verification time, signature/proof size, and implementation. If there are no known solutions for mitigating a particular vulnerability, we will note the constraints necessary for developing a unique solution.
+
+There are three broad categories of implications, which are not mutually exclusive:
+
+- Deanonymization (knowing more about others' transactions than you should)
+- Theft (being able to move others' funds)
+- Mining speedup (obtaining valid nonces paradigmatically faster)
+
+Vulnerable privacy features will be given highest priority, since retroactive deanonymization poses a threat to today's Monero users, whereas theft and mining are not an issue until quantum computers scale past a distant threshold. Mining vulnerabilities are the lowest priority, since switching consensus mechanisms is easier than implementing new cryptographic schemes. 
+
+It's important to note that many current post-quantum cryptography candidates require large proofs and significant computational resources, and will thus not be suitable for immediate deployment. For this reason, understanding broad strategies and their tradeoff will be more useful than specific implementations. Thankfully, consumer device capabilities increase over time, and researchers continue to discover new faster/smaller proving systems, so these practical barriers are temporary. 
+
+**Phase 2 deliverables:** List of vulnerabilities, following this format when possible:
+
+> Monero's **[component]** is vulnerable to **[impact]** by a hypothetical adversary that can leverage **[algorithm]**. In general, the solution must meet **[requirements]**. Current relevant methods include **[cryptosystem]** which would require **[migration process]** and has **[tradeoffs]** that would prevent implementation until **[device bandwidth/resource threshold]** is widely available.
+
+### Phase 3: Communicate and Educate
+
+Throughout this entire project, the community will receive updates during the weekly #monero-research-lab meetings. During phase 3 however, several specific documents (the key deliverables from this research) will be freely published: 
+
+**Phase 3 deliverables:** 
+
+1. **User-friendly writeup:** This community-facing writeup will provide an approachable explanation of how hypothetical quantum computers may impact Monero, and possible future mitigations. The writeup should minimize FUD and provide the context that these vulnerabilities apply to almost all cryptocurrencies (not only Monero).
+
+2. **Technical documentation:** An MRL position paper to distill key information for (current and future) researchers and developers. The writeup should formally describe vulnerabilities, and highlight potential strategies and solutions, noting their tradeoffs. Code snippets may be included if appropriate for pedagogical purposes or clarity.
+
+3. **Non-technical 1-pager:** An ELI5 / TL;DR summary will be provided for journalists, Monero Outreach, etc. This blurb will discuss risks and myths with no technical jargon, with key takeaways that a broad audience will appreciate.
+
+Results and updates will be also disseminated via Twitter threads, Reddit posts, and Breaking Monero videos. 
+
+# Resources
+
+*Updated 2020-05-20: Based on discussion in #monero-community earlier today, we are moving forward with option #2 below (pre-payment to mitigate volatility risks). The original text is left below for transparency & context.*
+
+The team tackling this project consists of one full-time researcher dedicated solely to this proposal (Adam), along with mentoring and writing by Mitchell (5-15 hr/wk), input from the Director of Security, and internal editors/reviewers. We intend to execute this research initiative over a twelve week period between June - August 2020 for 37500 USD.
+
+Insight's bills and employees' salaries are dollar-denominated, so we must minimize exposure to volatility risk. We are open to three different approaches, and will let the community choose how to proceed:
+
+1. If payouts can only be received after the work is completed, we will need to add a volatility buffer (see [TL;DR explanation](https://twitter.com/Mitchellpkt0/status/1252720219644063745), and [open source code](https://github.com/Mitchellpkt/volatility_analysis/blob/master/volatility_analysis.ipynb)). Based on the last 2 years of data, and a 4-month window (1 month of fundraising + 3 months of reseearch), a 35% buffer provides a 80% statistical confidence of receiving sufficient payout. Thus the CCS goal would include an extra 4375 USD per month
+2. If the funds can be released at the beginning of the research period, then no buffer is necessary. *Update:* If any of the three milestones are not completed within 12 months, 1/3 of the project value will be converted to XMR and returned to the general fund. (i.e. Insight would refund XMR worth 12500 USD for *each* missing milestone).
+3. Some mutually-trusted third party could escrow the funds in fiat form (to eliminate volatility risk), and pay Insight upon satisfactory work.
+
+# Appendix 1 - Literature
+
+Here is relevant literature that will be reviewed and annotated for utility to Monero. List compiled by Dr. Brandon Gooddell
+
+- Liu, Joseph K., Victor K. Wei, and Duncan S. Wong. 'Linkable spontaneous anonymous group signature for ad hoc groups.' Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2004.
+- Zhang, Huang, et al. 'Anonymous post-quantum cryptocash.' International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2018.
+- Torres, Wilson Abel Alberto, et al. 'Post-quantum one-time linkable ring signature and application to ring confidential transactions in blockchain (lattice RingCT v1. 0).' Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy. Springer, Cham, 2018.
+- Groth, Jens, and Markulf Kohlweiss. 'One-out-of-many proofs: Or how to leak a secret and spend a coin.' Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.
+- Chopra, Arjun. 'GLYPH: A New Instantiation of the GLP Digital Signature Scheme.' IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2017 (2017): 766.
+- Unruh, Dominique. 'Post-quantum security of Fiat-Shamir.' International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security. Springer, Cham, 2017.
+- Okamoto, Tatsuaki, et al. 'New realizations of somewhere statistically binding hashing and positional accumulators.' International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.
+- Lu, Xingye, Man Ho Au, and Zhenfei Zhang. '(Linkable) Ring Signature from Hash-Then-One-Way Signature.' 2019 18th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/13th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE). IEEE, 2019.
+- Backes, Michael, et al. 'Ring signatures: Logarithmic-size, no setup—from standard assumptions.' Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques. Springer, Cham, 2019.
+- Yang, Rupeng, et al. 'Efficient lattice-based zero-knowledge arguments with standard soundness: construction and applications.' Annual International Cryptology Conference. Springer, Cham, 2019.
+- Esgin, Muhammed F., et al. 'MatRiCT: Efficient, Scalable and Post-Quantum Blockchain Confidential Transactions Protocol.' Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2019.
+- Torres, Wilson Alberto, et al. 'Lattice RingCT v2. 0 with Multiple Input and Multiple Output Wallets.' Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy. Springer, Cham, 2019.
+- Ruffing, Tim, and Giulio Malavolta. 'Switch commitments: A safety switch for confidential transactions.' International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Springer, Cham, 2017.
+- Zhang, Huang, et al. 'Anonymous post-quantum cryptocash.' International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2018.
+- Zhang, Huang, et al. 'Implementing confidential transactions with lattice techniques.' IET Information Security 14.1 (2019): 30-38.
+- [http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/talks/Toward-More-Secure-Quantum-Future](http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/talks/Toward-More-Secure-Quantum-Future)
+

revuo-monero-maintenance-2024-q3.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Revuo Monero maintenance (2024 Q3)
+author: rottenwheel
+date: June 3, 2024
+amount: 8
+milestones:
+  - name: July
+    funds: 3
+    done: 2 August 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: August
+    funds: 3
+    done: 5 September 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: September
+    funds: 2
+    done: 1 October 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 12 August 2024
+    amount: 3
+  - date: 10 September 2024
+    amount: 3
+  - date: 2
+    amount: 7 October 2024
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will maintain Revuo Monero (https://www.revuo-xmr.com/) for the next 3 months (2024 Q3): July, August and September. There is a chance I may skip one week to tend to real life issues, in such case, next issue will just cover 2 weeks instead of 1.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily/weekly: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories.
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, XMPP, emails).
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc.)
+
+# Who
+
+rottenwheel, I joined the Monero community some time in 2017 by jumping into IRC, attending some Workgroup meetings, volunteering at the Monero village at DEFCON 28 in 2019 (https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/Monero/comments/cqegma/monero_village_defcon_2019_report/), participating in community events and being involved with other community-driven, smaller projects.
+
+As a proof of work for this specific proposal, I have, since January 2022 until now, written almost 200 issues, 195 of which were published in current Revuo's self-hosted website. That does not take into account the following enhancements.
+
+Up to this point, all efforts behind Revuo Monero's comeback after Diego "rehrar" Salazar was let go and Revuo Monero's publication was paused for a few months, include but are not limited to:
+
+- Light/dark theme with a toggle button (mostly in CSS/HTML, minimizing the reliance in JavaScript as much as possible; site loads everything just fine in Tor browser with strict security mode on.)
+- Support and Source Code sections added.
+- RSS and Support icons.
+- Google fonts removed.
+- Twitter and Nostr profiles set up and posting new issues every week automatically. Twitter: https://nitter.poast.org/revuoxmr; Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1tn8spk9zhxrctg2qym3gj8r7eq2wk6z3phrl8304wc54vt9qam4qvzw6jx
+
+# Proposal
+
+I will publish weekly issues (4 per month) at a rate of $100 / issue. At $157.5 / XMR this makes 8 XMR (~7.6++) (100 * 4 * 3 = $1200) to be split in 3 monthly milestones. Rounding current 7.6++ XMR to 8 XMR to cover for price votatility between Work In Progress phase and progressive milestone(s) payouts.
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revuo-monero-maintenance-2024-q4.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Revuo Monero maintenance (2024 Q4)
+author: rottenwheel
+date: September 2, 2024
+amount: 8.5
+milestones:
+  - name: October
+    funds: 3
+    done: 1 November 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: November
+    funds: 3
+    done: 28 November 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: December
+    funds: 2.5
+    done: 26 December 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 12 November 2024
+    amount: 3
+  - date: 6 December 2024
+    amount: 3
+  - date: 12 January 2025
+    amount: 2.5
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will maintain Revuo Monero (https://www.revuo-xmr.com/) for the next 3 months (2024 Q4): October, November and December. There is a chance I may skip one week to tend to real life issues, in such case, next issue will just cover 2 weeks instead of the usual 1.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily/weekly: search, curate, structure and publish new issues.
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, XMPP, e-mails, social media, Workgroup channels).
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc.)
+- As Needed: cover code enhancements/fixes expenses, sysadmin consultations and additional Revuo tools/services for the community. 
+
+# Who
+
+rottenwheel, I joined the Monero community some time in 2017 by jumping into IRC, attending some Workgroup meetings, volunteering at the Monero village at DEFCON 28 in 2019 (https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/Monero/comments/cqegma/monero_village_defcon_2019_report/), participating in community events and being involved with other community-driven, smaller projects.
+
+As a proof of work for this specific proposal, I have, since January 2022 until now, written almost 200 issues, 195 of which were published in current Revuo's self-hosted website. That does not take into account the following enhancements.
+
+Up to this point, all efforts behind Revuo Monero's comeback after Diego "rehrar" Salazar was let go and Revuo Monero's publication was paused for a few months, include but are not limited to:
+
+- Light/dark theme with a toggle button (mostly in CSS/HTML, minimizing the reliance in JavaScript as much as possible; site loads everything just fine in Tor browser with strict security mode on.)
+- Support and Source Code sections added.
+- RSS and Support icons.
+- Google fonts removed.
+- Twitter and Nostr profiles set up and posting new issues every week automatically. Twitter: https://nitter.poast.org/revuoxmr; Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1tn8spk9zhxrctg2qym3gj8r7eq2wk6z3phrl8304wc54vt9qam4qvzw6jx
+
+**New**: Revuo Calc, a moner.ooo fork that had its original code shrunk by half (# of total lines), improved upon and it offers 2 versions, adjusted according visitor's browser settings: JavaScript-free front and JavaScript-friendly front; think of Tor users and clearnet users. The cherry on top? Its own subdomain hidden service as well. See: https://calc.revuo-xmr.com/ // Source code: https://github.com/rottenwheel/moner.ooo/ 
+
+# Proposal
+
+I will publish weekly issues (4 per month) at a rate of $120 / issue. Using MA10 - Moving Average 10 (10 days) of ~$170 / XMR at the time of writing this proposal, this makes for **8.5 XMR** (~8.47058++...) [(120 * 4) * 3 = $1440) to be split in three (3) monthly milestones. Rounding ~8.47058++... XMR to 8.5 XMR to cover for price votatility between Work In Progress phase and progressive milestone(s) payouts.

revuo-monero-maintenance-2025-q1.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: Revuo Monero maintenance (2025 Q1)
+author: rottenwheel
+date: December 26, 2024
+amount: 8
+milestones:
+  - name: January
+    funds: 3
+    done: 10 February 2025
+    status: finished
+  - name: February
+    funds: 3
+    done: 3 March 2025
+    status: finished
+  - name: March
+    funds: 2
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 24 February 2025
+    amount: 3
+  - date: 19 March 2025
+    amount: 3
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will maintain Revuo Monero (https://www.revuo-xmr.com/) for the next 3 months (2025 Q1): January, February and March. There is a chance I may skip one week to tend to real life issues, in such case, next issue will just cover 2 weeks instead of the usual 1.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily/weekly: search, curate, structure and publish new issues.
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc.)
+- As Needed: cover code enhancements/fixes expenses, sysadmin consultations and additional Revuo tools/services for the community. 
+
+# Who
+
+rottenwheel, I joined the Monero community some time in 2017 by jumping into IRC, attending some Workgroup meetings, volunteering at the Monero village at DEFCON 28 in 2019 (https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/Monero/comments/cqegma/monero_village_defcon_2019_report/), participating in community events and being involved with other community-driven, smaller projects.
+
+As a proof of work for this specific proposal, I have, since January 2022 until now, written more than two hundred (200) weekly issues of the Revuo Monero newsletter, the first five (5) first published and hosted at [LocalMonero](https://localmonero.co/revuo) and the rest, 200++, were published in current Revuo's self-hosted website. About 24-25 of them had their maintenance and editorial work funded through the CCS, for 2024 Q3 and Q4; now looking to get funding secured for 2025 Q1 with this proposal. Beyond that, I have completed and deployed the following enhancements:
+
+Up to this point, all efforts behind Revuo Monero's comeback after Diego "rehrar" Salazar was let go and Revuo Monero's publication was paused for a few months, include but are not limited to:
+
+- Light/dark theme with a toggle button (mostly in CSS/HTML, minimizing the reliance in JavaScript as much as possible; site loads everything just fine in Tor browser with strict security mode on.)
+- Support and Source Code sections added.
+- RSS and Support icons.
+- Google fonts removed.
+- Twitter profile set up and posting new issues every week automatically, which often get reposted via @monero main account. Twitter: https://nitter.poast.org/revuoxmr
+- Addition of RM's group chats and social media profile links at the bottom of hamburger menu. Nostr, X, XMPP, Matrix, SimpleX and IRC.
+
+**New**: Revuo Calc. See: https://calc.revuo-xmr.com/ // Source code: https://github.com/rottenwheel/moner.ooo/ 
+[WIP] Moneroj.net maintenance and enhancements. Almost ready for relaunch/announcement, under Revuo's umbrella, as Revuo Moneroj.
+
+# Proposal
+
+I will publish weekly issues (4 per month, average) at a rate of $120 / issue. Using MA10 - Moving Average 10 (10 days) of ~$191 / XMR at the time of writing this proposal, this makes for **8 XMR** (~7.5392++...) [(120 * 4) * 3 = $1440) to be split in three (3) monthly milestones. Rounding ~7.5392++... XMR to 8 XMR even to cover for price votatility between Work In Progress phase and progressive milestone(s) payouts.

revuo-monero-maintenance-2025-q2.md

+---
+layout: fr
+title: Revuo Monero maintenance (2025 Q2)
+author: rottenwheel
+date: February 28, 2025
+amount: 7
+milestones:
+  - name: April
+    funds: 2.5
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: May
+    funds: 2.5
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: June
+    funds: 2
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will maintain Revuo Monero (https://www.revuo-xmr.com/) for the next 3 months (2025 Q2): April, May and June. There is a chance I may skip one week to tend to real life issues, in such case, next issue will just cover 2 weeks instead of the usual 1, which usually translates to reporting 3 issues instead of average 4 for milestones, this is usually to report on the 4 weeks each month usually has; at times, there have been 5 issues covering the month instead of 4 or 3. Goes both ways.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily/weekly: search, curate, structure and publish new issues.
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc.)
+- As Needed: cover code enhancements/fixes expenses, sysadmin consultations and additional Revuo tools/services for the community. 
+
+# Who
+
+rottenwheel, I joined the Monero community some time in 2017 by jumping into IRC, attending some Workgroup meetings, volunteering at the Monero village at DEFCON 28 in 2019 (https://redlib.zaggy.nl/r/Monero/comments/cqegma/monero_village_defcon_2019_report/), participating in community events and being involved with other community-driven, smaller projects.
+
+As a proof of work for this specific proposal, I have, since January 2022 until now, written more than two hundred (200) weekly issues of the Revuo Monero newsletter, the first five (5) first published and hosted at [LocalMonero](https://localmonero.co/revuo) and the rest, 200++, were published in current Revuo's self-hosted website. More than 20 of them had their maintenance and editorial work funded through the CCS, since 2024 Q3; now looking to get funding secured for 2025 Q2 with this proposal. Beyond that, I have completed and deployed the following enhancements:
+
+Up to this point, all efforts behind Revuo Monero's comeback after Diego "rehrar" Salazar was let go and Revuo Monero's publication was paused for a few months, include but are not limited to:
+
+- Light/dark theme with a toggle button (mostly in CSS/HTML, minimizing the reliance in JavaScript as much as possible; site loads everything just fine in Tor browser with strict security mode on.)
+- Support and Source Code sections added.
+- RSS and Support icons.
+- Google fonts removed.
+- Twitter profile set up and posting new issues every week automatically, which often get reposted via @monero main account. Twitter: https://nitter.poast.org/revuoxmr
+- Addition of RM's group chats and social media profile links at the bottom of hamburger menu. Nostr, X, XMPP, Matrix, SimpleX and IRC.
+- Revuo Calc. See: https://calc.revuo-xmr.com/ // Source code: https://github.com/rottenwheel/moner.ooo/ 
+- Unfortunately, still [WIP] Moneroj.net maintenance and enhancements. Almost ready for relaunch/announcement, under Revuo's umbrella, as Revuo Moneroj. Widely used on the subreddit and other XMR-adjacent communities often, as I've seen the link in the wild more than once.
+
+# Proposal
+
+I will publish weekly issues (4 per month, average) at a rate of $120 / issue. Using MA10 - Moving Average 10 (10 days) of ~$211 / XMR at the time of writing this proposal, this makes for **7 XMR** (~6.8246++...) [(120 * 4) * 3 = $1440) to be split in three (3) monthly milestones. Rounding ~6.8246++... XMR to 7 XMR even to cover for price votatility between Work In Progress phase and progressive milestone(s) payouts.

sarang-2019-q2.md

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-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: "Sarang: research funding for 2019 Q2"
 author: Sarang Noether
 date: 12 March 2019

sarang-2019-q3.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Sarang: research funding for 2019 Q3"
+author: Sarang Noether
+date: 3 June 2019
+amount: 355
+milestones:
+  - name: Funding is released
+    funds: 100% (355 XMR)
+    done: 14 June 2019
+    status: finished
+  - name: Work is done
+    funds: 0% (0 XMR)
+    done: 30 September 2019
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 14 June 2019
+    amount: 355 XMR
+---
+Hello to you. This is Dr. Sarang Noether, requesting ongoing research funding for the next quarter. My current funding period is complete at the end of June, and I'm ready to go for another three months of research and development for the Monero Research Lab.
+
+My monthly reports for the current funding period are available, and I encourage you to read them:
+- [April](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/34#note_5903)
+- [May](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/34#note_6373)
+- June (forthcoming)
+
+The last few months have seen plenty of work on formalization and testing of new signature schemes, output selection, sublinear transaction protocols, Bulletproofs, input merging, and more.
+
+As always, the list of research topics of interest is constantly evolving! Some items of interest:
+- CLSAG review and deployment: Both the mathematics and implementation of the CLSAG signature scheme should be reviewed prior to deployment.
+- Analysis of sublinear transaction protocols: This includes Lelantus, RingCT3.0, and Omniring. Each presents different tradeoffs in efficiency, privacy, and usability.
+- Ristretto: The use of an abstraction layer may provide a useful way to take advantage of some of the efficiency and security benefits of this curve representation.
+- Output selection: There are aspects to this (like fixed output sets) that are of interest, especially as we look toward transaction protocols with larger practical anonymity sets.
+- Dynamic block size improvements: This is a holdover from my last request that there was not time to investigate properly.
+- Efficient circuit code: Several different scaling solutions to zero-knowledge circuit evaluation, from Bulletproofs to Spartan, are of interest.
+- Literature review: This is, as always, ongoing.
+- Outreach and education: These typically include episodes of Breaking Monero, Coffee Chats, and other avenues.
+- The unexpected: Research rarely goes precisely the way we expect, so it is important to stay on top of whatever new proposals or issues arise unexpectedly.
+
+As always, I work hard to provide value to the community and project for the value you provide here. For the funding period beginning July 2019 and continuing through September 2019, my request continues to be 10415 USD per month, my assessment of market compensation for an independent Ph.D. researcher in the United States with a record of quality work. Therefore, the request total is **355 XMR**, based on a 14-day exponential moving average of 88 USD/XMR taken from Kraken.
+
+**Please read this paragraph carefully.** As was done for my previous request, this request will be paid out in full immediately when it is funded. This greatly reduces the volatility that otherwise arises from being paid out over time for ongoing work, and ensures that the value of donations is the value that reaches me. I hope that my record of work for the project speaks for itself, and that I continue to earn your trust to continue that work.
+
+Comments, questions, and discussion about this proposal are welcome. This community continues to stand out as unique for its ongoing support of research and development, and I want to thank everyone who supports the project in whatever way they choose. Let's continue to build and improve Monero. Onwards!

sarang-2019-q4.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Sarang: research funding for 2019 Q4"
+author: Sarang Noether
+date: 6 September 2019
+amount: 417
+milestones:
+  - name: Funding is released
+    funds: 100% (417 XMR)
+    done: 23 September 2019
+    status: finished
+  - name: Work is done
+    funds: 0% (0 XMR)
+    done: 31 December 2019
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 23 September 2019
+    amount: 417
+---
+Hello! Dr. Sarang Noether here, excited to continue full-time research, development, and analysis in privacy-focused cryptography and applications. You can read my previous monthly reports for [July](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/77#note_6916) and [August](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/77#note_7105) to see what I've been up to recently.
+
+This funding request covers the period from September through December 2019. The next three months have a lot in store.
+- New proving systems. Recent preprints, notably [IACR 944](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/944) and [IACR 969](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/969), provide general and efficient ways to prove statements in zero knowledge. In addition to ongoing work on existing constructions tailored specifically to transaction models, these more general approaches could have interesting practical applications that deserve investigation and analysis.
+- Fall network upgrade. There is always plenty to do around upgrades relating to review and analysis.
+- Simulation methods. Graph matching and augmentation models are finally to the point where we can run simulations to investigate the analytical effects of user behavior.
+- Peer review. Papers for which I am coauthor need to undergo revision and review, which is always a lengthy process.
+
+And there is always more to do that arises unexpectedly. Expect code review, the usual updates and changes, outreach, literature review, proof-of-concept code and testing, documentation, and more.
+
+I work hard to provide value in my research for the value provided here. As before, this request is for the equivalent of 10415 USD monthly, my assessment of fair market compensation for an independent Ph.D. researcher in the United States. Therefore, using a 14-day EMA of 75 USD/XMR from Kraken, the request total is **417 XMR**. Further, note that this request will be paid in full as soon as it is funded, in order to reduce the effects of price fluctuations and ensure that contributed value is the value that reaches me.
+
+Questions, comments, and feedback about this request are welcome.

sarang-2020-q1.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Sarang: research funding for 2020 Q1"
+author: Sarang Noether
+date: 16 December 2019
+amount: 695
+milestones:
+  - name: Funding is released
+    funds: 100% (695 XMR)
+    done: 9 January 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Work is done
+    funds: 0% (0 XMR)
+    done: 31 March 2020
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 9 January 2020
+    amount: 695
+---
+Hello! Dr. Sarang Noether here, ready to continue full-time research, development, and analysis in privacy-focused cryptography and applications. You can read my previous monthly reports for [October](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/96#note_7573) and [November](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/merge_requests/96#note_7842) to see what I've been up to recently.
+
+This funding request covers the period from January through March 2020. There's plenty to do.
+- Protocol research. Most work will likely focus on continuing updates to security models, proofs, and preprints for [CLSAG](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/654), [DLSAG](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/595), and [Triptych](https://github.com/SarangNoether/skunkworks/tree/triptych). Additionally, I am working to add multisignature support for Triptych and [RingCT 3.0](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/508) to extend functionality.
+- Graph-theoretic analysis. This research is ongoing with colleague Surae Noether, with a lot of new code and math to review relating to blockchain analysis.
+
+There is always plenty to do that arises unexpectedly. Expect code review, the usual updates and changes, outreach, literature review, proof-of-concept code and testing, documentation, and more.
+
+I work hard to provide value in my research for the value provided here. As before, this request is for the equivalent of 10415 USD monthly, my assessment of fair market compensation for an independent Ph.D. researcher in the United States. Therefore, using a 14-day EMA of 49.46 USD/XMR from Kraken with a 10% buffer to account for large recent volatility, the request total is **695 XMR**. Further, note that this request will be paid in full as soon as it is funded, in order to reduce the effects of price fluctuations and ensure that contributed value is the value that reaches me.
+
+Questions, comments, and feedback about this request are welcome.

sarang-2020-q2.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Sarang: research funding for 2020 Q2"
+author: Sarang Noether
+date: 9 March 2020
+amount: 845
+milestones:
+  - name: Funding is released
+    funds: 100% (845 XMR)
+    done: 19 March 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Work is done
+    funds: 0% (0 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 19 March 2020
+    amount: 845
+---
+Hello! Dr. Sarang Noether here, ready to continue full-time research, development, and analysis in privacy-focused cryptography and applications. You can read my previous monthly reports for [January](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/110#note_8753) and [February](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/110#note_9123) to see what I've been up to recently. A report for March is forthcoming at the end of this month.
+
+This funding request covers the period from April through June 2020. There's plenty to do.
+- CLSAG testing and deployment. The [CLSAG](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/654) signature construction has undergone major work on its security model, development, and testing to make it faster and safer. It's expected to undergo final external review and deployment.
+- Triptych research and testing. The [Triptych](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/018) proving system has been revised and released as a preprint. Research continues on a more efficient version that looks promising.
+- Protocol updates. Research is ongoing to determine safe and efficient ways to improve transaction privacy, fungibility, and functionality through things like improved multisignature support and cross-chain interactions.
+
+And of course, there is always research and development that arises as we go. Expect code review, the usual updates and changes, outreach, literature review, proof-of-concept code and testing, documentation, and more.
+
+I work hard to provide value in my research for the value provided here. As before, this request is for the equivalent of 10415 USD monthly, my assessment of fair market compensation for an independent Ph.D. researcher in the United States. Therefore, using a 7-day EMA of 48.80 USD/XMR from Kraken with a 10% buffer to account for recent major volatility, the request total is **704 XMR**. Further, note that this request will be paid in full as soon as it is funded, in order to reduce the effects of price fluctuations and ensure that contributed value is the value that reaches me.
+
+Questions, comments, and feedback about this request are welcome.

sarang-2020-q3.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Sarang: research funding for 2020 Q3"
+author: Sarang Noether
+date: 28 May 2020
+amount: 518
+milestones:
+  - name: Funding is released
+    funds: 100% (475.21 XMR @ $65.75)
+    done: 22 June 2020
+    status: finished
+  - name: Work is done
+    funds: 0% (0 XMR)
+    done: 30 September 2020
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 22 June 2020
+    amount: 475.21
+---
+Hello! Dr. Sarang Noether here, ready to continue full-time research, development, and analysis in privacy-focused cryptography and applications. You can read my previous monthly reports for [April](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/131#note_9896) and [May](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/131#note_9975) to see what I've been up to recently. A report for June is forthcoming at the end of the quarter.
+
+This funding request covers the period from July through September 2020. There's plenty to do, with a few big-ticket items in particular:
+- CLSAG audit. The [CLSAG](https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/654) audit planning process (which has been quite the endeavor) is being finalized, and I will coordinate the technical efforts for this process.
+- Arcturus applications. The [Arcturus](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/312) proving system leads naturally to an efficient transaction protocol. Math and implementation involving multisignatures, cooperative signing, and anonymity set selection are ongoing.
+- Protocol improvements. As always, research and development are ongoing to determine safe and efficient ways to improve transaction privacy, fungibility, and functionality while mitigating different types of adversarial heuristics.
+
+And of course, there is always research and development that arises as we go. Expect code review, the usual updates and changes, outreach, literature review, proof-of-concept code and testing, documentation, and more.
+
+I work hard to provide value in my research for the value provided here. As before, this request is for the equivalent of 10415 USD monthly, my assessment of fair market compensation for an independent Ph.D. researcher in the United States. Therefore, using an SMA-20 of 66.37 USD/XMR from Kraken with a 10% volatility buffer, the request total is **518 XMR**. To reduce the effects of price fluctuation, the XMR equivalent of the USD total for this request will be used to determine the amount for full payment when the request is filled. Any shortfall or excess at that time will be taken up by the general fund, as agreed to by the Monero core team.
+
+Questions, comments, and feedback about this request are welcome.