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