vtnerd 2021 Q1 Proposal

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Super happy to see @vtnerd proposing to continue work on Monero's code. Both his level of expertise and familiarity with Monero are hard to match. Yay!

• I will support this personally.

• Independently, the core team will likely allocate some funds from the General Fund to support this proposal.

PS: Depending when it moves to funding required, it could be considered to adjust the XMR amount due to large price variations in the last days.

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PS: Depending when it moves to funding required, it could be considered to adjust the XMR amount due to large price variations in the last days.

@binaryFate The proposal is now in the funding required stage and I never changed the exchange rate due to the recent volatility. The current spot price (on Kraken) is now ~3.8% higher than the CCS quoted rate. The 14-day moving average (on Kraken) is ~5.8% higher than the spot price. So the original rate is closer to the spot price, with the rate going "in my favor". I'm not sure if it can be changed at this point (without me redirecting XMR back to the general fund), but the 30-day moving average is ~2.2% higher than the CCS rate and ~1.6% lower than spot.

@vtnerd is a valuable community member and I'm honestly impressed on his skills. He really masters C++ development; if I were rich, I would totally fund his CCS because he's the person that Monero repo wants (along with moneromooo and the developers that work full time on monero-core repository).

Any improvement on RPC would be great since it takes a lot (and everyone complains about this correctly) to get a node synchronized. I know, there's crypto stuff and much more behind "monerod" but I believe there's a lot to do before considering the daemon fast. Proposing some tasks (such as "Determine a technique for safely returning std::weak_ptr/std::shared_ptr") denotes a detailed experience on software development. I totally support him!

I have recently discovered monero-lws repository and that project is amazing! For people that haven't heard about this yet, it's a backend implementation of Mymonero using epee and LMDB database. I tried to play with that tool a little bit and it's super fast, even in a remote virtual server with few resources (1 GB of RAM and the cheapest CPU I could find). I wish to have a self-hosted and secure instance to manage my Monero wallets in a local web-server that I can take up or down when I want. Unfortunately, as many projects related to Monero, monero-lws requires maintenance! In addition to this, monero-lws could be a game-changer for more "centralized" exchanges too!