Moneroj.net improvements, articles and maintenance
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Some of you probably know me, or at least already know my work. I am the developer behind Monero.com (for Cake Wallet) and the creator of Moneroj.net, a website with Monero metrics. I started this project in 2021, over a year ago, after developing a method for calculating the value of Monero based on its daily transaction count (which I called Metcalfe's Law Method, considering it was based on that theory). I always felt that Monero lacked a dedicated website with some interesting metrics, so I started developing Moneroj.net around that time. When I started this project, I only had about six charts on the website and I never imagined I could put together so many metrics. Now the page has more than 30 charts.
Some of you probably know me, or at least already know my work. I am the creator of Moneroj.net, a website with Monero metrics, and also the developer behind Monero.com website (for Cake Wallet). I started Moneroj.net in 2021, over a year ago, after developing a method for calculating the value of Monero based on its daily transaction count (which I called Metcalfe's Law Method, considering it was based on that theory). I always felt that Monero lacked a dedicated website with some interesting metrics, in order to instigate adoption, so I started developing the project around that time. When I started, I only had about six charts on the website and I never imagined I could put together so many metrics. Now the page has more than 30 charts.
I started the project with my own resources, and promptly clarified that the project was not (and still is not) intended to make profit, as it was just a "tool" I was building to help the community and spread the word about this amazing cryptocurrency. I always believed that information should be freely provided, as it is difficult enough to convince people to improve habits.
Some community members donated some small sums to me when I first delivered the website, but now the project has completed one year and has grown much larger than anticipated. Now it needs some serious improvements as soon as possible. The server is not able to handle all the requests, and there is so much data on it that it takes a lot of time to load some of the charts. Part of this is because when I first developed the project, I made it as simple as possible, as it was not for profit, so I couldn't invest many hours of work in it.
But now things have changed, and I believe many like and use my work on a daily basis. The website is a tool to provide useful information to community members and also to awaken people to this wonderful form of money. The more I work on this project, the more optimistic I become about privacy. That said, I intend to do a complete restructuring of the website:
The community asked, and it makes a lot of sense, judging by the CCS rules, so I'm open-sourcing all the current code for Moneroj.net, with CC BY 4.0 license. This way all the work can be inspected and further developed in case something happens. The idea is to have a cool website for the community to use for free. You can take a look at https://github.com/cryptomorpheuss/moneropro.git. Just take it easy on the criticism, since this was done on my spare time last year, and I intend to do a much better job with my working hours. But all critics are welcome, anyway, and you can all leave a message to me on this platform or in any other, including e-mail.
The community asked, and it makes a lot of sense, judging by the CCS rules, so I'm open-sourcing all the current code for Moneroj.net. The idea is to have a cool website for the community to use for free. You can take a look at https://github.com/cryptomorpheuss/moneropro.git. Just take it easy on the criticism, since this was done on my spare time last year, and I intend to do a much better job with my working hours. But all critics are welcome, anyway, and you can all leave a message to me on this platform or in any other, including e-mail and on reddit.
As it was suggested by members of the community, I divided the original Proposal into two. The original was about three months work, so this one is intended to be around 45 days of hard work, dealing with half the contents of the original one. If this gets approved and funded, I intend make the next one with the second half of the work from the original. This way the community can easily keep track of the project.
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Total of 42 new charts. The website had 45 charts when I made the CCS Proposal on May 11, but since the CCS rules state that I can begin work before approval, **I already built 10 new ones from that list**. They are: Darknet adoption (DREAD forum users), Privacy marketcap (all privacy coins), Monero Marketcap dominance (against all coins), Coinmarketcap Ranking, Merchants acceptance (total numbers, clearnet), Merchants increase (absolute numbers, clearnet), Merchants increase (%, clearnet), Coincards usage, Daily Reddit Posts, and Daily Reddit Comments. On this Proposal I intend to make all the necessary works listed and build yet 10 charts. The website will be improved, and loading faster.
Later work) If this project gets funded, on the next proposal I'll keep building these charts listed. Pleople come with new ideas everyday, so expect this number to go much higher with time. On the next Proposal I'll also start developing the "Articles" section, where I intend to create a blog-like system where contributors can write articles about Monero and supervisors can review, approve, delete or modify posts. I also have a lot of good articles to write, mostly about banking and Monero adoption, including website metrics. I never had the time to write this, as the Moneroj page was a side project, but I imagine the community would highly approve its content. I also plan to build in the future a RSS feed for these articles so that others can embed them in their news source.
- Develop the "Articles" section, where I intend to create a blog-like system where contributors can write articles about Monero and supervisors can review, approve, delete or modify posts. I also have a lot of good articles to write, mostly about banking and Monero adoption, including website metrics. I never had the time to write this, as the Moneroj page was a side project, but I imagine the community would highly approve its content. I plan to write two articles a week, an article about Monero metrics and another about Economics and Monero;
Later work) There is so much that can be done with that website to promote the adoption of Monero, that I feel it would be very good to focus on improving Moneroj.net as a tool for our community. I am totally open to suggestions, so that this work can be improved over time. Not all metrics are possible to calculate, given the privacy-preserving nature of Monero, but I bet there are many others that can be plotted. I aim to make Moneroj.net a source of information that the regular Monero user can check daily.
There is so much that can be done with that website to promote the adoption of Monero, that I feel it would be very good to focus on improving Moneroj.net as a tool for our community. The most important right now is to improve server loading time (by rebuilding the database structure and investing on a better server). I am totally open to suggestions, so that this work can be improved over time. Not all metrics are possible to calculate, given the privacy-preserving nature of Monero, but I bet there are many others that can be plotted. I aim to make Moneroj.net a source of information that the regular Monero user can check daily.
This is my first CCS proposal, but I hope the community understands and believes in my mission. I hope the community can see that I have been working with the best intentions and transparency. I made Moneroj.net for the community out of my own pocket and time, over a year ago, and kept as much as I could updating and improving. I certainly believe that this is a project that deserves some investment, as it is very useful as a tool, and has been increasing in size. It's time for the next step, and that involves costs that I can't keep out of my own resources and time. The quality of my work can be seen on both Moneroj.net and Monero.com.
This is my first CCS proposal, but I hope the community understands and believes in my mission. I hope the community can see that I have been working with the best intentions and transparency. I made Moneroj.net for the community out of my own pocket and time, over a year ago, and kept as much as I could updating and improving. I certainly believe that this is a project that deserves some investment, as it is very useful as a tool, and has been increasing in size. It's time for the next step, and that involves costs that I can't keep out of my own resources and time.
As a last note, I must thank Cake Wallet for the opportunity they gave me to build Monero.com and I clarify that the work on this project is a completely different topic and with different methods. The license of Moneroj.net will be permissive, so any person that desires to use it afterwards will be free to do so. I intend to publish under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0), if that’s according to the CCS rules.