Boog900 full time work on Cuprate (3 months) + January

Who

I am Boog900, you can see my last CCS here.

What

I will work for 3 months on Cuprate with an initial focus on releasing an alpha cuprated, the basic roadmap can be seen here: https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/issues/376. I plan to work on what I think is best to advance the project.

I am also asking for payment for the hours I worked in January. We had some discussions about changing the way we get funded, potentially making a combined "cuprate CCS", however we decided against it, this lead to the delay of this CCS. A list of things I did during January:

• finished the init PR: https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/pull/344
• worked on improving our consensus API: https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/pull/366, to prepare for fast-sync.
• Started working on issue 174: https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/pull/382
• Investigated why monerod was syncing the first 100,000 blocks faster than cuprated, which lead to this PR: https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/pull/377
• Started working on changing monero-oxide's tx type to use compressed points: https://github.com/Cuprate/serai/tree/monero-comp-points
• Started working on fast-sync: https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/tree/fast-sync

All the tasks that have been started are pretty much ready just need to be cleaned up, they are all used in the fast-sync branch which a few people have tested syncs on, the quickest sync so far was just over 4 hours.

Funding

I am asking for 40 XMR for my work in January.

$55/hr for 480 hrs at $220/XMR: 120 XMR

total: 160 XMR