hinto-janai full time work (3 months)

What

Work full-time for 480 hours on:

• Cuprate
  • Alpha release cycle 1 2
  • User book 1 2 3
  • Project roadmap Q1/Q2 goals 1 2 3
  • Misc. review work
• Monero
  • FCMP++ related review 1 2 3

Cuprate is preparing its first alpha release, with a 4-week cycle. A progress report for 2024 is here, the roadmap for 2025 is here. I will be buying/renting a variety of hardware for testing/development and will post receipts for all hardware acquired at the time of exchange within this CCS.

If developer resources becomes a bottleneck for FCMP++ activation on monerod, I will switch priority when/where possible. This was discussed here. Otherwise, I will continue working on Cuprate Q1/Q2 goals noted in the project roadmap, specifically: user book, release cycle, RPC integration 1.

Who

hinto-janai

Previous proposals:

• !422 (merged)
• !456 (merged)
• !484 (merged)

Funding

186 XMR.

$65 + 0.1 XMR per hour for 480 hours at $225/XMR.

Hardware

I will be buying/renting a variety of hardware for testing/development and will post receipts for all hardware acquired at the time of exchange within this CCS.

CPU/Model	Threads	Memory	Disk	Cost	Purchase date	Buy/rent	Notes
Intel Xeon E5 2698 v3	16	32 GB	HDD	3.26 XMR	2024-06-19	1 year rent	Purchased during !456 (merged); Used for moo, benches, and cuprated/monerod testing
Raspberry Pi 5	4	8 GB	Micro SD	0.96 XMR	2025-02-07	Buy
AMD EPYC (QEMU, 2.0GHz)	6	8 GB	NVMe SSD	1.65 XMR	2025-03-07	1 year rent
Mac Mini	10	16 GB	SSD	4.61 XMR	2025-03-07	Buy

resolved all threads

mentioned in commit 5d9edaea

merged

Milestone 1

232 hours, update:

• v0.0.1, v0.0.2 releases
• User book for above releases
• Merged PRs since last update

I did not and do not expect to do much FCMP++ related things soon although I am still planning to / would like to help out 9440 & 9436 when they are ready. I've also updated this comment with the hardware I've rented/purchased so far, they are all running cuprated and various other services. Currently I am continuing on misc work and RPC, more discussed here 1 2 about the rough plan for that. I expect after 422 is complete and some testing is done, I will have a rough estimation for cuprated + monero-wallet-cli compatibility.

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I am requesting payout of the first milestone (62 XMR) to 44hintoFpuo3ugKfcqJvh5BmrsTRpnTasJmetKC4VXCt6QDtbHVuixdTtsm6Ptp7Y8haXnJ6j8Gj2dra8CKy5ewz7Vi9CYW.