dangerousfreedom-2023-09.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: dangerousfreedom - wallet work
+author: DangerousFreedom
+date: September 17, 2023
+amount: 64 
+milestones:
+  - name: deliver of proposed demonstrator and wallet functions
+    funds: 56
+    done: 30 March 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 10 April 2024
+    amount: 56
+---
+
+## Note amount wasn't updated properly so there is 8 XMR left over from this proposal.
+
+## What and Why ?
+
+The end goal is twofold:
+
+1) Get started with a basic variant to handle transactions both in legacy and seraphis: since a blockchain is made of blocks and blocks are made of transactions, we probably need a class to handle node queries smoothly between the classes `transaction` and `SpTxSquashedV1`. Hopefully this will generate discussions and start paving the way for future works about reading/writing data from/in the blockchain (1/4 of total time).
+
+2) Make a basic but broad demonstrator of the seraphis_wallet by: opening a wallet, make mock transactions, make transaction proofs, show enotes and balance, close wallet. A lot of work has been done in this direction but they are not yet fully organized. So the goal is to have this basic but organized demonstrator capable of doing that (3/4 of total time).
+
+I would work on the following tasks:
+- Create the `TransactionVariant = tools::variant<transaction, SpTxSquashedV1>` to handle similar methods of these classes.
+- Create unit_tests with legacy and seraphis transactions to test these methods.
+- Create basic functions for wallet initialization, program flow and terminal handling.
+- Create the basic components of a seraphis_wallet (basically the wallet needs to load/save the `KeyContainer`, `EnoteStore` and `TransactionHistory` components). 
+- Create basic function to fill `EnoteStore`.
+- Use mock transactions like `construct_tx_for_mock_ledger_v1` to create txs.
+- Add entries to `TransactionHistory` when a transaction creation is attempted.
+- Create terminal functions to show enotes and provide knowledge proofs.
+- Close/save wallet and make sure it loads everything when reopened.
+
+All the efforts will be documented and made public on the seraphis_wallet group. Unit_tests will be provided whenever possible.
+
+
+## Who?
+
+- I did [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/298), [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/344) and [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/377) previous works.
+
+I propose to work for 40 USD per hour, 20h per week, for 12 weeks (or until I finish all the tasks), which makes 64 XMR considering 150 USD/XMR.

dangerousfreedom-Seraphis-audit-and-wallet.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: dangerousfreedom - more Seraphis development 
+author: DangerousFreedom
+date: September 20, 2022
+amount: 120
+milestones:
+  - name: Audit framework Seraphis.
+    funds: 20
+    done: 9 February 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: PoC CLI Wallet.
+    funds: 100
+    done: 9 February 2023
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 23 February 2023
+    amount: 120
+---
+
+## TLDR
+Hello, I would like your help to develop more features for Seraphis like the audit framework and a simple CLI wallet.
+
+## What and Why ?
+I will try to address the following issues:
+
+1) Create the necessary functions and explanation for the audit framework in Seraphis, i.e., proofs of ownership, unspentness, tx in, tx out (InProof,UnspentProof,SpendProof, OutProof) and update the [legacy](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/7353) protocol if necessary .
+
+2) Help developing a wallet for Seraphis. My goal is to be able to create the necessary functions to open a wallet, perform a CLI 'transfer address amount' that would create a transaction in the Seraphis/Jamtis standards, close the wallet, re-open a new wallet where the transferred funds are, 'scan the blockchain' and transfer the funds back to the original wallet. I will closely work with koe, rbrunner and jberman to better elaborate the tasks and get feedbacks or follow-ups whenever possible. Initially, the simplest wallet would open/save/close a file, keep track of the transactions inputs and outputs, perform a transfer in the Seraphis standards and prepare everything for the serialization and storage in the blockchain. These are the minimum features I will implement. More about it [here](https://github.com/seraphis-migration/wallet3/issues/10).
+
+
+## Who
+- I created the website [www.moneroinflation.com](www.moneroinflation.com) where you can find some information to improve your odds of winning a debate about the inflation issue in Monero.
+- I have spotted a [fungibility issue](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/8351) (Monero allows the storage of non-canonical points which harms the fungibility of transactions). 
+- I have spotted a [malleability issue](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/8438) (Monero has wrong signatures - signatures that don't match the data stored in the blockchain according to the canonical standards, which came from a wrong operation of a function when certain conditions are not met). 
+- AFAIK I was the first to make an implementation of the core functions of Monero in another language and (try to) scan the whole blockchain with them.
+
+I propose to work for 40 EUR per hour, 25h per week, for 18 weeks. Which makes 120 XMR considering 150 EUR/XMR.
+
+If everything goes well, I believe we could have a basic PoC CLI wallet by the end of January/23 and enough achievements to move to testnet. 

dangerousfreedom-seraphis_wallet_until_regtest.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: dangerousfreedom - seraphis wallet work until regtest
+author: DangerousFreedom
+date: March 30, 2024
+amount: 80.64
+milestones:
+  - name: deliver of proposed demonstrator of a wallet in a regtest
+    funds: 80.64
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+## What and Why ?
+
+Since we have now a basic demonstrator of a wallet using a mock ledger, my next goal is to have it on a real ledger. Many components are well developed for that goal like the enote_scanner from @jberman with @SNeedlewoods modifications and the serialization functions from @jeffro256 to enable write/reading transactions into a block in a blockchain file. So the idea is to put all the components together and finish developing the remaining ones in order to have a functional (local) regtest.
+
+The tasks I can foresee for that goal are:
+
+- Review @ghostway's KeyContainer to get it into its final form
+- Have a working MockLedger that correctly handles legacy and seraphis enotes.
+- Have a prototype of a wallet that loads a legacy wallet, derive a seraphis wallet from that and create seraphis transactions (both using Grootle proofs and FCMP) using legacy enotes.
+- Create the basic functions to mine blocks and send enotes to an user.
+- Save/Load the blocks into the blockchain using a LMDB database. 
+- Make sure to have a basic wallet working on a LMDB regtest database capable of doing basic functions like loading the wallet keys and its enote/history, transferring, visualizing and making knowledge proofs on enotes.
+
+There are many intermediary tasks that would be necessary to do that I am not fully aware of now.
+
+## Who?
+
+- I did [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/298), [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/344), [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/377) and [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/409) previous works.
+
+I propose to work for 42 USD per hour, 20h per week, for 12 weeks (or until we have a functional seraphis wallet in regtest), which makes 80.64 XMR considering 125 USD/XMR.

df-wallet-development-2.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: dangerousfreedom - wallet development 2 
+author: DangerousFreedom
+date: February 26, 2022
+amount: 31 
+milestones:
+  - name: deliver of proposed wallet functions
+    funds: 31
+    done: 19 September 2023
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 30 November 2023
+    amount: 31
+---
+
+## What and Why ?
+
+Transaction history component with knowledge proofs
+
+The idea is to collect transaction records (both for legacy and seraphis) authored by the wallet in order to provide the user the information he wants to look back. This component should import or update authored txs by looking at their enote's key-image and spent status. 
+
+The plan is to go in the direction of building a component to handle transactions by integrating the following non-comprehensive list of equivalent wallet2 methods into a component: get_transfers, get_payments, get_payments_out, get_unconfirmed_payments_out, get_unconfirmed_payments, export_outputs, import_outputs, import_outputs_from_str, export_payments, import_payments, import_payments_out, get_num_transfer_details, transfer_details, get_tx_proof, check_tx_proof, get_spend_proof, check_spend_proof, get_reserve_proof, check_reserve_proof.
+
+An initial discussion about this topic can be found [here](https://github.com/seraphis-migration/wallet3/issues/49).
+
+Since some of these functions are not purely wallet functions as they depend on a daemon, I expect to help and get help to properly interface them with a proto daemon.
+
+All the efforts will be documented and unit_tests will be provided whenever possible.
+
+## Who?
+
+- I did [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/298) and [this](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/344) previous works and I believe I'm sharpening my skills and understanding of Jamtis and Seraphis to accomplish this work as described. 
+
+I propose to work for 30 USD per hour, 20h per week, for 8 weeks (2 months). Which makes 31 XMR considering 155 USD/XMR.

erciccione-website5.md

 ---
-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: "ErCiccione: 3 more months part time work on Getmonero.org (April-June) + Holiday"
 author: erciccione
 date: 11 April 2021

erciccione-website6.md

 ---
-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: "ErCiccione: 3 more months part time work on Getmonero.org (July-September)"
 author: erciccione
 date: 11 July 2021
@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ milestones:
     status: finished
   - name: August
     funds: 14.7
-    done: 
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 31 August 2021
+    status: finished
   - name: September
     funds: 14.6
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 30 September 2021
+    status: finished
 payouts:
   - date: 20 August 2021
     amount: 14.7
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 12 October 2021
+    amount: 29.3
 
 ---
 

erciccione-website7.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "ErCiccione: 3 more months part time work on Getmonero.org (flexible)"
+author: erciccione
+date: 11 October 2021
+amount: 33
+milestones:
+  - name: First month
+    funds: 11
+    done: 31 December 2021
+    status: finished
+  - name: Second month
+    funds: 11
+    done: 21 October 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: Third month
+    funds: 11
+    done: 30 October 2023
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 6 January 2022
+    amount: 11
+  - date: 25 October 2022
+    amount: 11
+  - date: 6 November 2023
+    amount: 11
+---
+
+I'm proposing to continue my part time work on Getmonero.org (monero-site repository), 20 hours a week for 3 more months worth of work. This is a flexible ccs proposal: The 3 months of work will not be done linearly as done up to now, but they will be distributed according to my availability. Note that i still want to complete the work on the moneropedia soon, so at least initially i will work as done until now and the flexible part of this ccs will start later on.
+
+## What
+I will work on the same items as in [my last proposal](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/erciccione-website6.html), so basically:
+
+- Triaging issues
+- Adding new functionalities according to the feedback of the community
+- Increasing user friendliness
+- Updating obsolete sections
+- Improving localization process
+- Bug fixes
+- Reviews
+
+I triage or review the vast majority of the [issues](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/issues) and pull requests on the monero-site repository. You can also see the list of my [past direct contributions](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-site/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aerciccione) to have an idea of the work i do. I usually post updates about the website on reddit as well (see [the last one](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/nu8vch/getmoneroorg_updated_many_new_merchants_fixes_and/)), but for this proposal might be more appropriate to share updates on the gitlab repository.
+
+## Milestones
+I'm proposing to do three months worth of work on monero-site at a rate of €30/hour, starting on October 11th 2021, 20 hours a week. This results in a total of 33 XMR at the rate 1 XMR == €217 (10% buffer from current price).

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-2023-q4.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (2023 Q4)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: Oct 12, 2023
+amount: 39
+milestones:
+  - name: October
+    funds: 13
+    done: 1 November 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: November
+    funds: 13
+    done: 1 December 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: December
+    funds: 13
+    done: 1 January 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 7 January 2024
+    amount: 39
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (2023 Q4): October, November and December.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update reports, stats, changelog
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- Monthly/As Needed: publish the *MO Cypherpunk Transmission Report*
+- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report*
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, Reddit, XMPP, emails)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting logs and summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 1926 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
+- published 960 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 22 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 67 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
+- published 56 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 72 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 21 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 100 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- published 16 x on demand MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added 295 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources)
+- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/, https://monero.observer/monero-cli-wallet-cheat-sheet/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started MO Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report, XMR TA Report, MO Artistic Saturday, and Cypherpunk Transmission initiatives (https://monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://monero.observer/tag/analysis, https://monero.observer/tag/art, https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added MO XMR Stats section (https://monero.observer/stats/)
+- added MO Resources section (https://monero.observer/resources/)
+- added MO Calendar section (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar/)
+- added MO Blacklist section (https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://monero.observer/rss/)
+- started self-hosting a terminal-based git server containing the MO UI source code (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-self-hosted-git-server/)
+- created a hidden service for MO (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-new-server-hidden-service/)
+- other project improvements (https://monero.observer/changelog/)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.13 XMR / hour. At $150 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 39 XMR (0.13 * 100 * 3).

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-2024-q1.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (2024 Q1)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: Jan 19, 2024
+amount: 36
+milestones:
+  - name: January
+    funds: 12
+    done: 31 January 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: February
+    funds: 12
+    done: 29 February 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: March
+    funds: 12
+    done: 31 March 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 9 April 2024
+    amount: 36
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (2024 Q1): January, February and March.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update reports, stats, changelog
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- Monthly/As Needed: publish the *MO Cypherpunk Transmission Report*
+- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report*
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, XMPP, email)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting logs and summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 2250 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
+- published 1087 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 25 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 81 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
+- published 86 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 56 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 24 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 195 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- published 17 x on demand MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added 305 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources)
+- posted 295 x on demand Calendar events (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar)
+- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/, https://monero.observer/monero-cli-wallet-cheat-sheet/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started MO Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report, XMR TA Report, MO Artistic Saturday, and Cypherpunk Transmission initiatives (https://monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://monero.observer/tag/analysis, https://monero.observer/tag/art, https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added MO XMR Stats section (https://monero.observer/stats/)
+- added MO Resources section (https://monero.observer/resources/)
+- added MO Calendar section (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar/)
+- added MO Blacklist section (https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://monero.observer/rss/)
+- started self-hosting a terminal-based git server containing the MO UI source code (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-self-hosted-git-server/)
+- created a hidden service for MO (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-new-server-hidden-service/)
+- other project improvements (https://monero.observer/changelog/)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.12 XMR / hour. At ~$160 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 36 XMR (0.12 * 100 * 3).

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-2024-q2.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (2024 Q2)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: Apr 11, 2024
+amount: 48
+milestones:
+  - name: April
+    funds: 16
+    done: 2 May 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: May
+    funds: 16
+    done: 1 June 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: June
+    funds: 16
+    done: 1 July 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 18 May 2024
+    amount: 16
+  - date: 17 June 2024
+    amount: 16
+  - date: 16 July 2024
+    amount: 16
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (2024 Q2): April, May and June.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update reports, stats, changelog
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources* and *Blacklist* items
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- Monthly/As Needed: publish the *MO Cypherpunk Transmission Report*
+- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report*
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
+- 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)
+- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting logs and summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 2438 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
+- published 1181 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 28 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 93 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
+- published 98 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 56 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 25 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 235 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- published 17 x on demand MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added 320 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources) & 16 x Blacklist items (https://monero.observer/blacklist)
+- posted 336 x on demand Calendar events (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar)
+- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/, https://monero.observer/monero-cli-wallet-cheat-sheet/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started multiple MO initiatives: Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report, XMR TA Report, MO Artistic Saturday, and Cypherpunk Transmission  (https://monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://monero.observer/tag/analysis, https://monero.observer/tag/art, https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added multiple MO sections: XMR Stats, Resources, Calendar, Blacklist (https://monero.observer/stats/, https://monero.observer/resources/, https://monero.observer/tag/calendar/, https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://monero.observer/rss/)
+- other project improvements (https://monero.observer/changelog/)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.16 XMR / hour. At $127 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 48 XMR (0.16 * 100 * 3).

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-2024-q3.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (2024 Q3)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: Jul 10, 2024
+amount: 42
+milestones:
+  - name: July
+    funds: 14
+    done: 31 July 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: August
+    funds: 14
+    done: 31 August 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: September
+    funds: 14
+    done: 1 October 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 5 September 2024
+    amount: 28
+  - date: 10 October 2024
+    amount: 14
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (2024 Q3): July, August and September.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update reports, stats, changelog
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources* and *Blacklist* items
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report*
+- As Needed: publish the *MO Cypherpunk Transmission Report*
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
+- As Needed: engage with the community on Matrix, XMPP, emails
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting logs and summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 2677 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
+- published 1299 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 31 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 106 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
+- published 112 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 56 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 27 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 280 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- published 17 x on demand MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added 342 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources) & 18 x Blacklist items (https://monero.observer/blacklist)
+- posted 385 x on demand Calendar events (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar)
+- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/, https://monero.observer/monero-cli-wallet-cheat-sheet/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started multiple MO initiatives: Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report, XMR TA Report, MO Artistic Saturday, and Cypherpunk Transmission  (https://monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://monero.observer/tag/analysis, https://monero.observer/tag/art, https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added multiple MO sections: XMR Stats, Resources, Calendar, Blacklist (https://monero.observer/stats/, https://monero.observer/resources/, https://monero.observer/tag/calendar/, https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://monero.observer/rss/)
+- other project improvements (https://monero.observer/changelog/)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.14 XMR / hour. At ~$160 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 42 XMR (0.14 * 100 * 3).
\ No newline at end of file

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-maintenance-autumn-2022.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Autumn 2022)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: Sep 6, 2022
+amount: 30
+milestones:
+  - name: September
+    funds: 10
+    done: 30 September 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: October
+    funds: 10
+    done: 31 October 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: November
+    funds: 10
+    done: 30 November 2022
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 4 November 2022
+    amount: 20
+  - date: 9 December 2022
+    amount: 10
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (autumn 2022): September, October and November.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update stats, changelog, version control
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Monday): publish the *MO XMR TA Report*
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
+- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report*
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, Reddit, XMPP, emails)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting logs and summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 1261 x daily MO stories/reports (https://www.monero.observer/stories)
+- published 13 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 468 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 27 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/dev)
+- published 52 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 32 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 9 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 32 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://www.monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/, https://monero.observer/monero-cli-wallet-cheat-sheet/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started MO Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report and MO Artistic Saturday initiatives (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
+- added a MO XMR Stats section (https://www.monero.observer/stats)
+- added a MO Resources section (https://www.monero.observer/resources)
+- added a MO Calendar section (https://www.monero.observer/tag/calendar)
+- added a MO Blacklist section (https://www.monero.observer/blacklist)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://www.monero.observer/rss)
+- started self-hosting a terminal-based git server containing the MO UI source code (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-self-hosted-git-server/)
+- created a hidden service for MO (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-new-server-hidden-service/)
+- other project improvements (https://www.monero.observer/changelog)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.1 XMR / hour. At $155 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 30 XMR (0.1 * 100 * 3).

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-maintenance-spring-2022.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Spring 2022)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: February 26, 2022
+amount: 27
+milestones:
+  - name: March
+    funds: 9
+    done: 31 March 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: April
+    funds: 9
+    done: 30 April 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: May
+    funds: 9
+    done: 31 May 2022
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 17 April 2022
+    amount: 9
+  - date: 19 May 2022
+    amount: 9
+  - date: 29 June 2022
+    amount: 9
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (spring 2022): March, April and May.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Monday): publish the *MO XMR TA Report* (technical analysis Monero price report)
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- Monthly: publish the *MO Blitz Report* (includes everything that happened the previous month)
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise stories to make sure links and content is still relevant)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, Reddit, XMPP, emails)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (no 404's, domain is paid, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: add new features, improvements and website sections
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 658 x MO stories/reports (https://www.monero.observer/stories)
+- published 24 x MO XMR TA reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 6 x MO Blitz reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 150 x MO Community Messages (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 5 x MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
+- created several guides on GPG encryption, RSS feeds and Monero contributors (https://www.monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- added a MO Calendar section (https://www.monero.observer/tag/calendar)
+- started MO Community Messages and MO Artistic Saturday initiatives (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community, https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
+- added a MO Resources section (https://www.monero.observer/resources)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://www.monero.observer/rss)
+- other project improvements (https://www.monero.observer/changelog)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+Work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.09 XMR / hour. At $160 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 27 XMR (0.09 * 100 * 3).
+

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-maintenance-spring-2023.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Spring 2023)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: Mar 5, 2023
+amount: 39
+milestones:
+  - name: March
+    funds: 13
+    done: 31 March 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: April
+    funds: 13
+    done: 30 April 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: May
+    funds: 13
+    done: 31 May 2023
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 7 June 2023
+    amount: 39
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (spring 2023): March, April and May.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update reports, stats, changelog, version control
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- (Bi)Weekly (Monday): publish the *MO Cypherpunk Transmission Report*
+- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report*
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, Reddit, XMPP, emails)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting logs and summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 1763 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
+- published 779 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 19 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 13 x weekly MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- published 52 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
+- published 56 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 58 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 16 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 100 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- added 265 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources)
+- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/, https://monero.observer/monero-cli-wallet-cheat-sheet/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started MO Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report, XMR TA Report, MO Artistic Saturday, and Cypherpunk Transmission initiatives (https://monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://monero.observer/tag/analysis, https://monero.observer/tag/art, https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added MO XMR Stats section (https://monero.observer/stats/)
+- added MO Resources section (https://monero.observer/resources/)
+- added MO Calendar section (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar/)
+- added MO Blacklist section (https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://monero.observer/rss/)
+- started self-hosting a terminal-based git server containing the MO UI source code (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-self-hosted-git-server/)
+- created a hidden service for MO (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-new-server-hidden-service/)
+- other project improvements (https://monero.observer/changelog/)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.13 XMR / hour. At $150 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 39 XMR (0.13 * 100 * 3).

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-maintenance-summer-2022.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Summer 2022)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: May 29, 2022
+amount: 36
+milestones:
+  - name: June
+    funds: 12
+    done: 30 June 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: July
+    funds: 12
+    done: 31 July 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: August
+    funds: 12
+    done: 31 August 2022
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 4 August 2022
+    amount: 24
+  - date: 26 September 2022
+    amount: 12
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (summer 2022): June, July and August.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update stats, changelog, version control
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Monday): publish the *MO XMR TA Report* (technical analysis Monero price report)
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
+- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report* (includes everything that happened the previous month)
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise stories to make sure links and content is still relevant)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, Reddit, XMPP, emails)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 975 x daily MO stories/reports (https://www.monero.observer/stories)
+- published 37 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 12 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/dev)
+- published 18 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 9 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 294 x MO Community Messages (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 4 x Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://www.monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started MO Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report and MO Artistic Saturday initiatives (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://www.monero.observer/tag/art)
+- added a MO Resources section (https://www.monero.observer/resources)
+- added a MO Calendar section (https://www.monero.observer/tag/calendar)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://www.monero.observer/rss)
+- started self-hosting a terminal-based git server containing the MO UI source code (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-self-hosted-git-server/)
+- created a hidden service for MO (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-new-server-hidden-service/)
+- other project improvements (https://www.monero.observer/changelog)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.12 XMR / hour. At $130 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 36 XMR (0.12 * 100 * 3).
+
+*Note: After this period, Monero Observer will turn 1, marking 365 days of uninterrupted daily Monero news reporting. Thanks for being a loyal reader and supporter, I am very proud to be part of the best community out there.*

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-maintenance-winter-2022.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (Winter 2022)"
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: Nov 29, 2022
+amount: 39
+milestones:
+  - name: December
+    funds: 13
+    done: 31 December 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: January
+    funds: 13
+    done: 31 January 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: February
+    funds: 13
+    done: 28 February 2023
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 14 January 2023
+    amount: 13
+  - date: 6 March 2023
+    amount: 26
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (winter 2022/23): December, January and February.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily: update reports, stats, changelog, version control
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Resources*
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Calendar Events*
+- Weekly (Sunday): publish the *Monero Dev Activity Report*
+- Weekly (Saturday): publish the *MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Report*
+- (Bi)Weekly (Monday): publish the *MO Cypherpunk Transmission Report*
+- Monthly (1st): publish the *MO Blitz Report*
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise and update reports)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, Reddit, XMPP, emails)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (server maintenance, billing, etc)
+- Optional/bonus: publish new Monero and privacy related guides, meeting logs and summaries, add new features, improvements and website sections, start new community initiatives
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August 2021 with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 1494 x daily MO stories/reports (https://monero.observer/stories)
+- published 608 x on demand MO Community Messages (https://.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- published 15 x monthly MO Blitz reports (https://monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 7 x weekly MO Cypherpunk Transmission reports (https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- published 39 x weekly Monero Dev Activity Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/dev)
+- published 56 x weekly MO XMR TA reports (https://monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- published 44 x weekly MO Artistic Saturday Top 5 Reports (https://monero.observer/tag/art)
+- published 12 x on demand Monero Workgroup Meeting Log Summaries & uploaded 57 meeting logs to MO (https://monero.observer/tag/logs/)
+- added 231 x on demand MO Resources (https://monero.observer/resources)
+- created several Monero, privacy and security related guides (https://monero.observer/tag/guides/, https://monero.observer/verify-install-update-monero-cli-wallet-linux-guide/, https://monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/, https://monero.observer/list-anon-email-service-providers/, https://monero.observer/read-monero-observer-terminal-newsboat/, https://monero.observer/monero-cli-wallet-cheat-sheet/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started MO Community Messages, Monero Dev Activity Report, XMR TA Report, MO Artistic Saturday, and Cypherpunk Transmission initiatives (https://monero.observer/tag/community, https://monero.observer/tag/dev/, https://monero.observer/tag/analysis, https://monero.observer/tag/art, https://monero.observer/tag/CT)
+- added MO XMR Stats section (https://monero.observer/stats/)
+- added MO Resources section (https://monero.observer/resources/)
+- added MO Calendar section (https://monero.observer/tag/calendar/)
+- added MO Blacklist section (https://monero.observer/blacklist/)
+- added multiple RSS feeds (https://monero.observer/rss/)
+- started self-hosting a terminal-based git server containing the MO UI source code (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-self-hosted-git-server/)
+- created a hidden service for MO (https://monero.observer/monero-observer-new-server-hidden-service/)
+- other project improvements (https://monero.observer/changelog/)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.13 XMR / hour. At $135 / XMR (21 daily EMA) this makes 39 XMR (0.13 * 100 * 3).

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-website-2.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: escapethe3RA Monero Observer maintenance (3 months)
+author: escapethe3RA
+date: November 25, 2021
+amount: 21
+milestones:
+  - name: December
+    funds: 7
+    done: 31 December 2021
+    status: finished
+  - name: January
+    funds: 7
+    done: 31 January 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: February
+    funds: 7
+    done: 28 February 2021
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 16 January 2022
+    amount: 7
+  - date: 16 February 2022
+    amount: 7
+  - date: 20 March 2022
+    amount: 7
+---
+
+# What
+
+I will continue to maintain *Monero Observer* (https://monero.observer) for the next 3 months (winter 21/2022): December, January and February.
+
+Tasks:
+
+- Daily: search, curate, structure and post new reports/stories
+- Daily/As Needed: post new *MO Community Messages*
+- Weekly: publish the *MO XMR TA Report* (technical analysis Monero price report)
+- Monthly: publish the *MO Blitz Report* (includes everything that happened the previous month)
+- As Needed: housekeeping (revise stories to make sure links and content is still relevant)
+- As Needed: outreach (engage with the community on Matrix, Reddit, XMPP, emails)
+- As Needed: make sure the website is live and working as expected (no 404's, domain is paid, etc)
+- Optional: add new features, improvements and website sections
+
+# Who
+
+escapethe3RA, I have started contributing to the Monero ecosystem in August with Monero Observer and other smaller projects:
+
+- published 356 MO stories (https://www.monero.observer/stories)
+- published 11 MO XMR TA reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/blitz)
+- published 3 MO Blitz reports (https://www.monero.observer/tag/analysis)
+- created several guides on GPG encryption, RSS feeds and Monero contributors (https://www.monero.observer/ultimate-guide-new-monero-contributors/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-cleartext-signatures/, https://www.monero.observer/gpg-generate-full-keypair/)
+- redesigned *Monero Means Money* website, donated bounty to GF (https://moneromeans.money/, https://github.com/escapethe3RA/monero-means-money/)
+- started MO *Community Messages* initiative (https://www.monero.observer/tag/community)
+- other project improvements (https://www.monero.observer/changelog)
+ 
+# Proposal
+
+I will work for 25 hours per week over 3 months at a rate of 0.07 XMR / hour. At $220 / XMR (10% buffer) this makes 21 XMR (0.07*100*3).
+

escapethe3ra-monero-observer-website.md

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-layout: fr
+layout: cp
 title: Monero Observer news website
 author: escapethe3RA
 date: August 23, 2021
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 milestones:
   - name: September
     funds: 5.33
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 30 September 2021
+    status: finished
   - name: October
     funds: 5.33
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 31 October 2021
+    status: finished
   - name: November
     funds: 5.33
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 30 November 2021
+    status: finished
 payouts:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 15 October 2021
+    amount: 5.33
+  - date: 16 November 2021
+    amount: 5.33
+  - date: 15 December 2021
+    amount: 5.33
 ---
 
 # WHAT

fcmp++-development.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: Full-Chain Membership Proofs + Spend Authorization + Linkability Development CCS
+author: kayabaNerve
+date: April 13, 2024
+amount: 920 XMR
+milestones:
+  - name: Provide a specification of the circuit and high-level protocol
+    funds: 80 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Productionize the crate for the arithmetic circuit proof
+    funds: 160 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Productionize the crate for the Elliptic Curve Divisor Library
+    funds: 80 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Implement the gadgets
+    funds: 320 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Implement the circuit
+    funds: 200 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Implement the Generalized Schnorr Protocol
+    funds: 40 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Implement multisig for the Generalized Schnorr Protocol
+    funds: 40 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+
+payouts:
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+    amount:
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+---
+
+This CCS is to develop Full-Chain Membership Proofs (a trustless solution) into Monero under RingCT, replacing the existing CLSAG. This is distinct from prior intents to integrate FCMPs into Monero with Seraphis, and was prior discussed in a [MRL meeting](https://libera.monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20240401) with well reception. That same meeting organized the [funding of security proofs for Generalized Bulletproofs](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/cypherstack-gbp-security-proofs.html), a critical component for FCMPs (under both this proposal and Seraphis). This builds upon the [work prior done on FCMPs](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/kayabaNerve-fcmp-retroactive.html), and does most of the ground work for FCMPs with Seraphis as well.
+
+The exact deliverables will be:
+- A document detailing the arithmetic circuit (a 'ZK program') and necessary integration work
+- A ready-for-auditing Rust implementation of an amenable (trustless, formally proven, sufficiently performant) arithmetic circuit proof (currently expected to be Generalized Bulletproofs)
+- A Rust library for calculating elliptic curve divisors
+- The FCMP proof, as necessary for usage with RingCT
+- The GSP (Generalized Schnorr Protocol) proof acting as the signature, with multisignature functionality
+
+### Milestones
+
+The milestones are unordered, barring the first to provide a specification. The gadgets will be specified as a series of constraints in a non-machine-interpretable manner intended to allow human understanding and review of the flow and composition. With the definition of the proofs (largely modelled as black boxes to the protocol), all of the supporting infrastructure will also be defined as necessary to comprehend the integration into Monero and new privacy protocol created.
+
+"Productionize the crate for the arithmetic circuit proving system" means to develop the arithmetic circuit proof implementation to the point I endorse auditing it. With those audits, the crate would be eligible for usage in production. Any audits of the implementation would only be sane after the proof implemented is formalized, with security proofs. Currently, the proposed proof is GBPs, and security proofs for it are actively being worked on. If they fail to be proven, this milestone is worded in such a way an alternative proof (with acceptable properties, from being trustless to sufficiently performant to building upon sufficiently accepted academia) may also be accepted. If there are no alternative proofs acceptable, this milestone will be considered not possible at this time, and for the purposes of this CCS, 'failed'.
+
+"Productionize the crate for the Elliptic Curve Divisor Library" means to develop the crate for calculation of divisors into a point it can be audited.
+
+"Implement the gadgets" means to implement the prior-specified gadgets, and all supporting code for them, such that they are ready for soundness proofs, formal verification, auditing, and etc.
+
+"Implement the circuit" means to implement the prior-specified circuit, and supporting high-level functions, to the degree described for the gadgets. This will also include an implementation of the towering curve cycle, Helios and Selene, though not one expected to be performant enough for deployment.
+
+"Implement the Generalized Schnorr Protocol" means to implement the [Generalized Schnorr Protocol](https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/050.pdf) as needed for Monero's usage.
+
+"Implement multisig for the Generalized Schnorr Protocol" means to implement a 2-round multisignature protocol, inspired by FROST, for the aforementioned Generalized Schnorr Protocol. This would have O(n) signing complexity and identifiable aborts.
+
+All of these milestones will be done myself, kayabaNerve. Integration into Monero will be handled externally to this CCS, with jberman stating their intent to submit their own CCS. The steps for integration (regarding new protocol structures and how data such as the tree root will be specified/used when verifying transactions) will be part of the specification from the first milestone.
+
+### Audits
+
+https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/449 establishes an earmarked fund for paying for audits, as necessary for all of the work produced by this CCS. The justification for this structure is mainly provided within that CCS, and is considered out of scope to this CCS.
+
+### Relation to Seraphis
+
+GBPs, the Elliptic Curve Divisor library, the circuit specification (except the first layer), and the gadgets apply to a deployment of FCMPs with Seraphis (making this work largely reusable even if we don't move forward with FCMPs *before* Seraphis). The only part which wouldn't explicitly is the first layer of the circuit (which is currently expected to be composed of two distinct layers) and potentially the Generalized Schnorr Protocol work (as they are not currently used by Seraphis, yet I have proposed their use within Seraphis).
+
+This work, if extended with the forward-secrecy discussions held *and all associated wallet code necessary*, would also be feature-complete with Seraphis. This would leave Seraphis, the protocol, a simpler/potentially more performant protocol, not an upgrade to privacy. This CCS, as currently specified, does not intend to detail all of the wallet upgrades which would be necessary (leaving that to future hard forks, keeping the scope of this concise and minimizing the timeline till deployment).
+
+### Other Necessary Development
+
+As aforementioned, integration must also be done, and development of a performant implementation of the towering curve cycle. While jberman has spoken up for the former, another party will need to be found for the latter (such as tevador, who found the cycle and has expressed domain expertise). Barring finding another party for the latter, I would have to personally learn how to implement efficient modulo arithmetic and step up (a problem left to the future).
+
+### Failure
+
+If the work within this CCS for any reason fails, the funds raised and remaining (held by core, per the rules of the CCS) will roll over into a general MRL research fund to sponsor further research and development, such as proofs for and review of Seraphis. The direction of and process for this new fund will be decided and agreed upon such a roll over occurring by core and discussions within MRL. The idea for this was premised on the idea of hiring researchers, Cypher Stack specifically, on retainer with the MRL having discretion over how those hours were spent. That was discussed at the same meeting as this proposal (proposal as in cryptographic idea, not proposal as in CCS proposal) with sufficiently well reception for me to propose it as the fallback here.

fcmp++-research.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: "Full-Chain Membership Proofs + Spend Authorization + Linkability Research CCS"
+author: kayabaNerve
+date: April 13, 2024
+amount: 2000
+milestones:
+  - name: Provide a soundness proof for the proof using Elliptic Curve Divisors (MAGIC/Veridise)
+    funds: 70
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Formally verify the gadgets
+    funds: 0
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Prove the composition to be unlinkable, unforgeable, and non-malleable
+    funds: 0
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Audit the Implementation of GBPs
+    funds: 0
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Audit the Elliptic Curve Divisors Library
+    funds: 0
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Audit the implementation of the gadgets
+    funds: 0
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Audit the implementation of the circuit
+    funds: 0
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Audit the implementation of the Towering Curve Cycle
+    funds: 0
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Audit the implementation of the Generalized Schnorr Protocol
+    funds: 0
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 22 May 2024
+    amount: 198
+  - date: 30 May 2024
+    amount: 70
+  - date: 13 August 2024
+    amount: 38
+  - date: 25 November 2024
+    amount: 38.5
+  - date: 13 December 2024
+    amount: 118.5
+  - date: 7 March 2025
+    amount: 53.43
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+This CCS is to prove, review, and audit Full-Chain Membership Proofs (a trustless solution based on Generalized Bulletproofs) into Monero under RingCT, replacing the existing CLSAG. This is distinct from prior intents to integrate FCMPs into Monero with Seraphis, and was prior discussed in a MRL meeting with well reception. That same meeting organized the [funding of security proofs for Generalized Bulletproofs](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/cypherstack-gbp-security-proofs.html), a critical component for FCMPs (under both this proposal and Seraphis). The review and audits here would also lay the ground work for FCMPs with Seraphis as well.
+
+All of these milestones have "?" for their required funds. The goal of this CCS is to raise the funds necessary to contract various external parties. All XMR will be held per the usual CCS policy, by core, until the necessary agreements are made for each milestone. The intention of this is to prevent needing to file several CCSs (addng delays) and to minimize the amount of confusion re: funding efforts. I do not want to have to justify to the community, after 5 CCSs for audits, why a 6th one is still justified and FCMPs aren't a black hole of endless fundraises for audits.
+
+Unfortunately, that last note cannot be completely unavoided. Since there are not auditors ready for each and every milestone, this CCS may run out of funds prior to completion of all milestones (requiring another CCS). The amount chosen (2000 XMR, roughly 230k USD) was chosen on the belief it's reasonable for the scope described. Due to the subject matter (ZK proofs and circuits) currently being one of the hottest fields in the cryptocurrency space at large, with both startups and VCs, I'm unable to provide any such guarantee.
+
+With that note, it may sound optimal to do individualized CCSs. That'd not only add weeks/months to the process (as some of these audits are serialized, so a delay in one adds to the delay in the next), it'd risk being unable to contract certain auditors. In my experience, auditors schedule as long as months out *from time of agreement*. In the time it takes to discuss the proposal and raise the funds, auditors' availability schedules may shift dramatically, including in rates (shifting the amount necessary/adding a deadline for the discussion and fundraising). Hence this proposal.
+
+kayabaNerve and jberman are the people primarily expected to find such parties, with the actual agreement on parties and amount to be by their endorsement, and a general agreement within MRL that the proposed expenditure is reasonable. The word choice of reasonable means that the proposed parties are reasonably trusted to be able to adequately perform the work proposed, the amount to be paid is understandable and amenable, and if there are other potential parties, none are clearly, completely, and definitively better choices. 
+
+If the work within this CCS for any reason fails, or completes with a remaining balance, the funds raised and remaining (held by core, per the rules of the CCS) will roll over into a general MRL research fund to sponsor further research and development, such as proofs for and review of Seraphis. The direction of and process for this new fund will be decided and agreed upon such a roll over occurring by core and discussions within MRL. The idea for this was premised on the idea of hiring researchers, Cypher Stack specifically, on retainer with MRL having discretion over how those hours were spent. That was discussed at the same meeting as this proposal (proposal as in cryptographic idea, not proposal as in CCS proposal) with sufficiently well reception for me to propose it as the fallback here.