title:XMRChat - a service for content creators to receive messages and tips in Monero.
author:FiatDemise
date:December 8, 2024
amount:114
milestones:
-name:Milestone 1 - MVP (minimum viable product) using LWS
funds:40
done:August 4, 2024
status:finished
-name:Milestone 2 - video display of xmrchats with Streamyard and OBS, find creator page, private xmrchats, making repo open source
funds:30.56
done:November 20, 2024
status:finished
-name:Milestone 3 - creator specific minimum tip amount, links to more creator content + new tab UI for that and other settings, audio tip received notification, How To section in FAQ, old xmrchats expiration, admin page, site monitoring.
funds:17
done:
status:unfinished
-name:Milestone 4 - on screen special effects and notifications based on tip tier, moderator / cohost page, feature currently live streams, fee system
funds:27
done:
status:unfinished
payouts:
-date:19 March 2025
amount:70.56
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_Note: 70.56XMR has been awarded to XMRChat from [TipXMR](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/tipxmr.live.html)_
Who?
Douglas Tuman - Host of popular YouTube show, Monero Talk. Host of weekly show Monerotopia livestreamed in multiple platforms. Creator of Monerotopia annual conference - monerotopia.com. Creator of the Copamonero annual Monero-sponsored soccer tournament - copamonero.com. Sets up booth/tent at Libertarian party conventions and Porcfest to spread Monero awareness. Creator of gratuitas.org coffee beans business (and coffee brewer/bartender at XMR meetups/conventions. Founder of xmrbazaar.com online, p2p marketplace. Founder of plug-n-play XMR node implementation, the Nodo - moneronodo.com. X handle @DouglasTuman.
FiatDemise - Guy with project management experience that joined the Monero community in 2020. Helped save Kuno (kuno.anne.media) and volunteers time there as a moderator. Contributed to testing and provided feature feedback for xmrbazaar. Created a Monero for All brochure that is available in several languages and was distributed at Porcfest 2024. X handle @FiatDemise.
Saeed - Front-end web developer found via Monero Jobs & Proposals Telegram group, GitHub https://github.com/sa8ab. Developed dex alcor.exchange, github.com/avral/alcor-ui. Created raceroms.com. Has a network of other front and back end developers he partners with.
What?
XMRChat is website that provides content creators with a service, allowing them a way to receive messages and tips in Monero. We launched https://xmrchat.com/ on 8/4/2024, using it for the first time in MoneroTopia episode 177, where Doug interviewed Saeed, going over the project and what the site is capable of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1sy8ICsgBQ. We are looking to raise a total amount of 114 XMR at this time, split in 4 milestones as seen above.
Website: https://xmrchat.com/
X Account: https://x.com/xmr_chat
Code: https://github.com/sa8ab/xmrchat
How we got started?
In early 2024, FiatDemise was watching a streamer, one that accepts tips from viewers and reads their messages as part of their show. They accept fiat using YouTube Superchats, Rumble Rants, and Streamlabs. They publicly stated they’d like to accept crypto too. FiatDemise started a conversation with their staff to try to get them to use Luke Smith’s Shadowchat. FiatDemise volunteered to pay for a company to install and configure it too. After some promising back and forth, FiatDemise got a response saying the team’s web dev / admin was too busy with current projects and they didn’t want to devote any time towards installing or managing Shadowchat. FiatDemise learned that the market wanted a very simple solution that doesn’t require any installation, hosting, or technical knowledge.
At the time, FiatDemise was volunteering as a tester for xmrbazaar and raised the idea of a simple, hosted superchat solution in that Matrix group. Doug supported it right away, and we began working on requirements and giving shape to the vision with a Balsamiq wireframe. We worked with one developer to create a rough proof of concept. Then we found Saeed, a talented developer who could take the project to the next level. We saw the limitation of RPC, only being able to monitor incoming tips for one wallet, which wouldn’t work with the goal of hosting a solution for many content creators. After research, trial and error, and consultations with VTNerd and Radanne, we got LWS to work. After several more updates, the MVP was launched.
_All remaining funds (36.67 XMR) have been transferred to [Monerotopia 2024 marketing and publicity](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/monerotopia2024publicity.html)_
A big thanks again to everyone who supported Round 2 of funding for Monero Outreach! Final report can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/bonpt3/monero_outreach_round_2_ccs_final_report_see_what/).
We have made significant progress in our ability to support and enhance the outreach efforts of the Monero Community, and are beginning to receive requests for support from various areas of the Monero ecosystem. We are honored to be able to support Monero in this way, and we look forward even more to what is ahead!
Below is a breakdown of what we intend to work on for Round 3. Please note the Ongoing Project Tasks that we are working on now, during, and in between our CCS proposals. We have continued to volunteer on this important endeavor in between proposals.
# WHO:
#### Monero Outreach
We are a workgroup of creators, writers, technicians, translators, and visionaries. This is our Mandate:
- Drive greater Monero adoption and awareness through a variety of outreach-related activities; particularly public relations, education, and marketing.
- Respect the work done by the Core Developers and community workgroups, the founding principles of Monero, and the Monero ethos at all turns in the road so we do not jeopardize the integrity of what makes Monero great.
- Make the world a better place through Monero. We are motivated by the question: "How can we expect to prepare our children to live in this world, if we haven't prepared the world for our children”?
Learn more about us on our website: [https://www.monerooutreach.org/about.php]
# WHAT:
We will work toward the following milestones:
### Milestone group 1:
- Develop a quicksheet for core developers and community leadership with suggestions for communicating with the press.
- Create support materials for merchants.
- Ongoing project tasks.*
### Milestone group 2
- Develop a public calendar of events to showcase all Monero related events throughout the year.
- Develop communications with journalists from non-english speaking countries and influence Monero publications.
- Enhance and strengthen Press Kit section of getmonero.org.
- Ongoing project tasks.*
### Milestone group 3
- Strengthen SEO for projects within the Monero ecosystem.
- Produce a report on the economic modeling we’ve used for localization translators, highlighting the strengths, weaknesses, and lessons learned.
- Create a database/directory of all Monero accepting businesses.
- Improve Monero’s page on Wikipedia.
- Ongoing project tasks.*
### Ongoing Project Tasks:
- Connect journalists interested in writing about Monero to the relevant core developers and community contributors.
- Seek and publish professional opinions on Monero in regard to legal and financial advisement and recommendations.
- Connect relevant Monero contributors to conference representation requests.
- Support the Monero ecosystem with coordinated press releases.
- Maintain an annual Monero events calendar (to be built).
- Maintain a directory of Monero accepting businesses (to be built).
- Write original Monero articles and share widely via social media and journalist/publication email list (Goal of 1-2 new high quality stories per month).
- Translate all new content (minimum Spanish, French, and Portuguese).
- Merge content w/ getmonero.org and improve Press Kit section of website.
- Continuously update toolkits and Quick Facts sheet.
- Post Monero updates on Twitter, Reddit, Blockfolio Signals, CoinGecko Beam, etc.
- Attempt to secure new revenue streams so we are not continually relying on CCS (Designs for Monero branded clothing, partnerships with mining pools or businesses, etc.).
- Seek and organize experts for developing the Monero Transmissions Lab, which exists to solve problems related to transmitting Monero transactions through decentralized, open source infrastructure.
- Seek and organize experts for discussing how to actively bring Monero adoption to countries like Venezuela and other economically challenged regions of South America and Africa (communication channels established and individuals recruited).
- Continue seeking methods to innovate and move forward on our [Roadmap](https://www.monerooutreach.org/about.php).
# HOW MUCH:
### Totals:
Thunderosa (Design Lead): 30 XMR
Lh1008 (Coordinator): 20 XMR
Almutasim (Editor): 20 XMR
Xmrhaelan (Organizer): 15 XMR
High Quality Writers: 11 XMR (1 XMR at current prices for each piece written)
Translators: 14 XMR (0.1 XMR at current prices per 1,000 words translated)
title:Monero Outreach quarterly and ongoing task funding
author:xmrhaelan
date:January 31, 2019
amount:84
milestones:
-name:January
funds:28
done:31/01/2019
status:finished
-name:February
funds:28
done:28/02/2019
status:finished
-name:March
funds:28
done:31/3/19
status:finished
payouts:
-date:31 December 2018
amount:28 XMR
-date:07 March 2019
amount:28 xMR
-date:15 May 2019
amount:28
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A big thanks again to everyone who supported our initial FFS!(final report) We learned a lot during the first round, have created a solid foundation, and are ready to jump back in for a new round of Outreach related awesomeness. We hope the Monero community is as enthusiastic as us about what’s ahead! Below is a breakdown of what we intend to work on. Please note the Ongoing Project Tasks that we are working on now, during, and in between our FFS proposals. We have continued to volunteer on this important endeavour in between proposals.
WHO:
Monero Outreach. We are a team of creators, writers, technicians, translators, and visionaries. This is our Mandate:
Drive greater Monero adoption and awareness through a variety of outreach-related activities - particularly public relations, education, and marketing.
Respect the work done by the Core Developers and community workgroups, the founding principles of Monero, and to the Monero ethos at all turns in the road so we do not jeopardize the integrity of what makes Monero great.
Make the world a better place through Monero. We are motivated by the question: "How can we expect to prepare our children to live in this world, if we haven't prepared the world for our children?"
Learn more about us on our website: https://www.monerooutreach.org/about.php You can see what Monero Outreach has produced here, here, and here.
WHAT:
This is what we will be working on for the next few months (please note these did not start until ffs was funded in January):
November
- Update code on backend of website to make future content and localization projects more efficient and streamlined
- Add page on website for investors and family offices for purchasing XMR
- Finish creating the French and Spanish versions of monerooutreach.org
- Ongoing project tasks.*
December
- PSA- Run Your Own Node campaign
- Finish PDF Generator on backend of website to automatically update Quick Facts data and other toolkits
- Recruit volunteer for translation/localization oversight
- Ongoing project tasks.*
January
- Publish Monero SWOT Analysis
- Finish Portuguese (and work toward Chinese) version of monerooutreach.org
- Ongoing project tasks.*
* Ongoing Project Tasks:
- Write original Monero articles and share widely via social media and journalist/publication email list (Goal of 3 new stories per month)
- Translate all new content (minimum Spanish, French, and Portuguese)
- Merge content w/ getmonero.org and improve Press Kit section of website
- Continuously update toolkits and Quick Facts sheet
- Post Monero updates on Twitter, Reddit, Blockfolio Signals, CoinGecko Beam, etc.
- Attempt to secure new revenue streams so we are not continually relying on FFS (Designs for Monero branded clothing, partnerships with mining pools or businesses, etc.)
- Seek and organize experts for discussing feasibility of MONSAT (Monero Orbiting Node Satellite) and other space initiatives (communication channel establish and individuals recruited)
- Seek and organize experts for discussing how to actively bring Monero adoption to countries like Venezuela and other economically challenged regions of South America and Africa (communication channel establish and individuals recruited)
- Continue seeking methods to innovate and move forward on our Roadmap
HOW MUCH:
Totals:
Thunderosa (Design Lead): 21 XMR
Lh1008 (Coordinator): 15 XMR
Xmrhaelan (Organizer): 3 XMR
High Quality Writers: 13.5 XMR (1.5 XMR at current prices for each piece written)
Translators: 22.5 XMR (0.1 XMR at current prices per 1,000 words translated)
-name:Functioning Monero payment processor with docker image install and woocommerce store
funds:25
done:2 October 2021
status:finished
-name:Text tutorial docs and website with woocommerce demo store
funds:10
done:1 November 2021
status:finished
-name:Zeronode mode viewkeys
funds:20
done:10 March 2021
status:finished
-name:RPC via tor hidden service
funds:10
done:
status:unfinished
-name:Another webstore plugin
funds:20
done:
status:unfinished
payouts:
-date:18 October 2021
amount:25
-date:22 November 2021
amount:10
-date:17 March 2022
amount:20
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### Proposal closed
The remaining funds (30XMR) have been absorbed by https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/374
# What
[xmrSale](https://github.com/xmrsale/xmrSale) is a lightweight Monero payment processor that connects to your own Monero node, striving to be modular and lightweight. xmrSale has an accessible API written in python that talks to your own Monero node, uses RPC to generate new addresses, and monitors payment success with your own copy of the Monero blockchain.
xmrSale will make it easy to embed Monero donation buttons into your website with an HTML iframe tag, accepting donations from your supporters and community. Through an xmrSale Woocommerce plugin, we are going to allow anyone to self-host their own Monero accepting online store. Monero has been thriving in the "host your own tools" niche of the internet, and self-custody payments are crucial in this mission. Existing Monero eccommerce processors are custodial, sacrificing the privacy of you and your customers.
You can explore a demo of xmrSale here: [https://try.xmrsale.org](https://try.xmrsale.org)
** Please do not donate using the demo, please donate via the CCS **
# Who
As an anonymous developer, to prove my intention and dedication I have already put significant work into establishing the project to a working state (experimental!), and am somewhat close to achieving the first milestone.
# Milestones
With your support, I will continually work to ensure that xmrSale remains up-to-date with the SatSale project (from which we are based on), and also build above and beyond Monero specific features as listed below.
**Functioning Monero payment processor with node connection and docker image** (September)
* Get the project into a functioning state, where anyone running a Monero node could clone the repository, edit the config, and run xmrSale themself.
* Docker image installation option
* Instant payments
* Functioning xmrSale woocommerce plugin
**Text tutorial docs and website** (September)
* Write coherent and easy to follow installation instructions, aligned to various node configurations.
* Multiple example configs. Tor & HTTPS configurations. Nginx
* A functioning wordpress Monero store, with a demo store hosted 24/7
* Text tutorial
* Basic HTML and CSS website
**Zeronode mode viewkeys** (December)
* A mode that does not require a node to run, uses block explorers and viewkeys to check payments.
**RPC via tor hidden service** (December)
* Rather than use SSH to bridge to node, add option for Tor hidden services.
**Build a plugin for another ecommerce site** (Q1)
* Community can decide! Perhaps shopify? Let us know!
# Further development and research (not current milestones)
* Improved user interface
* More consistent price feeds (preload price too)
* Single click install container that deploys to a VPS with a node
* Any developments in the monero payment protocol. Including any layer 2.
* Security analysis
* Stress test under concurrent payments
* Improved user experience with payment timeouts
* Video installation tutorials
I will take community desire very seriously to guide this project, so if there is something you want but don't see here then please let us know! This proposal will expire 1 March, 2022.