MoneroSignerResurrection.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: "Monero Signer Resurrection: Reviving and Enhancing the Monero Signing Project"
+author: Thor a.k.a vthor a.k.a DiosDelRayo
+date: May 24, 2024
+amount: 55.38
+milestones:
+  - name: Monero Signer basics on emulator
+    funds: 5.38 XMR
+    done: 19 June 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: Monero Signer working with companion Application
+    funds: 5 XMR
+    done: 28 July 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: Cleanup and production ready
+    funds: 35 XMR
+    done: 12 August 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: Monero-GUI integration
+    funds: 10 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 20 June 2024
+    amount: 5.38
+  - date: 29 July 2024
+    amount: 5
+  - date: 13 August 2024
+    amount: 35
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+# Monero Signer Resurrection: Reviving and Enhancing the Monero Signing Project
+
+## Proposal
+This project has been stagnant since [December 28th, 2023](https://github.com/Monero-HackerIndustrial/polyseed.py/commit/2887588a1ebb6ccc6a48772595891175b5ce3c25). In taking over, I have updated the original proposal to include essential features for the current Monero ecosystem, such as:
+
+Adding UR (Unified Resource) support
+Integrating with [polyseed](https://github.com/DiosDelRayo/polyseed-python')
+Interfacing with the Monero GUI
+I have already made progress on some of these components, visible in my GitHub repositories, listed at the end of the proposal.
+
+I propose to take over and finish the Monero Signer project, which was funded but never really started. After learning about Monero Signer and researching the existing work, I found it to be a stale project that was never truly initiated. I aim to complete the project by delivering what was originally promised, with some modifications to make it more useful and avoid wasting time on potentially unnecessary features.
+
+I will complete all the work myself, as I prefer to move quickly, keep things streamlined, and discard unnecessary elements. Security and usability are my top priorities, followed by features and fancy extras. This approach leads to more secure and maintainable code, better user experience, and reduced documentation needs.
+
+
+## Features
+### Monero Signer
+- [x] Monero seed generation by dice rolls (without password)
+- [x] Monero seed generation  camera (without password)
+- [x] Monero seed generation by picking 24 words (without password)
+- [x] Polyseed generation by dice rolls
+- [x] Polyseed generation by camera
+- [ ] Full Polyseed support
+- [ ] Wallet import with seed words (Monero/Polyseed)
+- [ ] Wallet import with QR code
+- [ ] Wallet export via Seed~~/hex~~/QR code
+- [ ] View key only wallet export
+- [ ] Receive via QR code unsigned transactions
+- [ ] Sign transaction
+- [ ] Send via QR code signed transaction
+
+Reasoning why this is proposal is without password encryption for monero seeds:
+```
+On using monero-python there is no password protection implemented and after investigating a little bit,
+the reason behind is probably, that the encryption/decryption is not really mad in a "standard" way.
+So to be compatible with Monero-CLI and Monero-GUI the encryption must be implemented in CryptoNight and
+another propiatary way to add and substract the mask of the CryptoNight password hash.
+This will be a rabbit hole I can estimate.
+
+Why not another encryption instead? I dislike to have various standards until nobody knows anymore what and where to use.
+A temporary password encryption would in my opinion also only make the things worse on reaching compatibility with the
+original implementation. Because now, what to do, support two different standards? Remove the way, people protected the
+password of there seeds before?
+
+If there is interest, and somehow funding for it I will implement it later in the monero-python fork (the original was archived) for MoneroSigner. But until then password encryption for seed will only supported for Polyseed.
+```
+
+### Monerosigner companion application (Desktop):
+- [ ] Prepare unsigned transaction
+- [ ] Send unsigned transaction via QR code
+- [ ] Receive unsigned transaction via QR code
+- [ ] Publish signed transaction
+
+### Monero-GUI integration (Optional)
+- [ ] Send unsigned transaction via QR code (hidden but accessible)
+- [ ] Receive signed transaction via QR code (hidden but accessible)
+- [ ] Check transaction and publish to network
+- [ ] Process flow in `Send` for view key only wallet, to make the workflow natural as possible
+
+### Documentation:
+- [ ] Short and simple step-by-step guide
+- [ ] README on how to use the automatic build process, including `git clone`, `make`, `make install`, and troubleshooting
+
+### Tools and Scripts:
+- [ ] Build image for target device
+- [ ] Build emulator
+
+I want to express that I will try to minimize the need for documentation by making the process easier to build and use. Nobody wants to read a book to get something done.
+
+### ~~PortableMoneroQR:~~ dropped in favor of UR's
+- [ ] ~~Well-defined data protocol~~
+- [ ] ~~Targeting low-end cameras and screens~~
+- [ ] ~~Targeting high speed~~
+- [ ] ~~Application agnostic~~
+- [ ] ~~Library Python~~
+- [ ] ~~Library Java/Kotlin~~
+
+There is no need for that, I was not aware of Blockchain Commons’ Uniform Resources (URs), but that is the way to go. Sending and receiving data will be implemented using URs.
+
+## Milestones and Timeline
+### Monero Signer basics on emulator (5.38 XMR) (10 days from now)
+- [x] Emulator easy start
+- [x] implement Polyseed in (pure) Python
+- [x] Monero seed generation by camera
+- [x] Monero seed generation on dice rolls
+- [x] Polyseed generation by camera
+- [x] Polyseed generation by dice rolls
+- [x] Wallet export Seed~~/hex~~/QR code
+- [x] Build script to generate executable (For macOS only Docker provided and I have no way to verify)
+
+### Monero Signer working with companion Application (5 XMR) (25 days from now)
+- [ ] Monero signer companion Application finished
+- [ ] All missing Monero signer functionality
+- [ ] ~~PortableMoneroQR stable~~
+- [ ] UR's implemented
+
+### Cleanup and production ready (35 XMR) (45 days from now)
+- [ ] Tools
+- [ ] Scripts
+- [ ] Documentation final version
+- [ ] Final cleanup Monero Signer
+- [ ] Final cleanup companion Application
+- [ ] ~~Final cleanup PortableMoneroQR~~
+
+### Monero-GUI integration (10 XMR) (60 days from now from, until PR)
+- [ ] Fork
+- [ ] Modify
+- [ ] PR
+
+The given timeline reflects the upper bounds, but I target myself:
+- Milestone 1: 7 days from now, June 1, 2024
+- Milestone 2: 14 days from now, June 8, 2024
+- Milestone 3: 30 days from now, June 24, 2024
+- Milestone 4: 45 days from now, July 9, 2024
+
+I kindly request that the payouts be made promptly upon completion of each milestone to allow me to concentrate fully on delivering Monero Signer successfully.
+
+An expiration date for the proposal is set for 70 days from now, August 3, 2024.
+- Milestone 4: 45 days from now, July 9, 2024
+
+I kindly request that the payouts be made promptly upon completion of each milestone to allow me to concentrate fully on delivering Monero Signer successfully.
+
+An expiration date for the proposal is set for 70 days from now, August 3, 2024.# Monero Signer Resurrection: Reviving and Enhancing the Monero Signing Project
+
+Progress can be watched at:
+[MoneroSigner](https://github.com/DiosDelRayo/MoneroSigner)
+[Emulator](https://github.com/DiosDelRayo/monerosigner-emulator)
+[polyseed python](https://github.com/DiosDelRayo/polyseed-python)
+[monero python Todo, where is no work at the moment, but tracked about password encryption](https://github.com/DiosDelRayo/polyseed-python/Todo.md)
+
+(will add with time other repositories, as soon there is code to see)
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0xfffc-2024Q1.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "0xfffc part-time C++ development (3 months, February, March, April, 2024)"
+author: 0xfffc
+date: 8 Jan 2024
+amount: 45
+milestones:
+  - name: 80 hours
+    funds: 15
+    done: 29 February 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: 80 hours
+    funds: 15
+    done: 30 March 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: 80 hours
+    funds: 15
+    done: 30 April 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 4 March 2024
+    amount: 15
+  - date: 9 April 2024
+    amount: 15
+  - date: 2 May 2024
+    amount: 15
+---
+
+### What
+
+I propose to spend 20 hours a week for 3 months working on Monero Core. Here are some areas, in tentative order of descending importance/specificity, that I'd work on:
+- Will focus on reviewing and testing different PRs.
+- Work with @selsta to fix different issues. 
+- Work with @hyc to fix incoming issues and improve our LMDB usage in Monero.
+- Improve Doxygen documentation.
+- Improve general documentation of the codebase.
+- General improvements to our codebase. Like removing dead code, and simplifying the codebase, especially the [epee module](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9090).
+- Investigate wallet2 API interoperability with other languages. As it comes up regularly in IRC dev channel discussions, we need to interoperability of wallet2 API. There have been suggestions like rewriting it from scratch or exposing C-style API from wallet2 C++ code. I am planning to investigate this issue and report to the community about the pros and cons of each approach and how much investment we need for each approach.
+- Go through the issue tracker and look into solving existing issues, will confirm issues to work with trusted developers in the community.
+- Analyze existing static analyzers (clangd-based analyzer, NASA/ikos, Facebook/infer, etc) and report to @selsta about the possibility of adding one of them as a workflow to our GitHub repository. Target will be running static analysis on submitted PR as workflow.
+
+### Who
+
+I am anonymous; you can call me 0xFFFC; after I finished my Master's degree in compilers, I worked as a C++ engineer (9-5) in a big-tech software company for 3 years on a product with more than 1 billion active users, chances are you are using it right now as you reading this text. But over time I realized that I wanted to work on crypto, because I believe in Monero's mission. My technical background is mostly in Compilers (GCC) and Operating Systems (Linux kernel). But I have always followed cryptography and now I am switching to cryptocurrency as my long-term career plan.
+
+I have already finished [one bounty](https://bounties.monero.social/posts/75/6-500m-blake2b-c-dev-challenge-seraphis) and have [another bounty](https://bounties.monero.social/posts/91/1-000m-twofish-addition-to-monero) in the pipeline. Submitted different [PRs](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9090). and multiple reviews, including [9103](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9103), [9084](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9084), [9061](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9061), [7935](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/7935).
+
+Helped @hyc to close bug report LMDB side [9378](https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9378#c14), working on [9920](https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9920) at the moment. With the help of @selsta, I am managing labels for all the incoming PRs and issues on our repo too. 
+
+I will provide regular updates at each milestone. Including details regarding (a) how much time I have spent on each specific problem, (b) what I have done,  (c) what I am currently doing, and (d) what is my plan for the next milestone. Each update will provided publicly and will be reviewed by trusted developers in the community.
+
+### Funding
+
+- 15xmr/mth * 3 months = 45xmr
+- Schedule: 20hr/week * 12week
+
+
+
+Freedom wins.
+0xFFFC
+

0xfffc-2024Q2.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "0xFFFC full-time C++ development (3 months, May, June, July, 2024)"
+author: 0xFFFC
+date: 21 March 2024
+amount: 90
+milestones:
+  - name: 160 hours
+    funds: 30
+    done: 17 June 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: 160 hours
+    funds: 30
+    done: 16 July 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: 160 hours
+    funds: 30
+    done: 14 August 2024
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 20 June 2024
+    amount: 30
+  - date: 19 July 2024
+    amount: 30
+  - date: 26 August 2024
+    amount: 30
+---
+
+### What
+
+The bulk of my focus will be on opportunities related to performance improvement. To find out performance improvement opportunities a performance test suite is necessary for the Monero project.
+
+I have been experimenting with the idea of performance tests with Monero past few weeks ( [perf script](https://github.com/0xFFFC0000/monero-perf), [small C++ code to benchmark monero](https://github.com/0xFFFC0000/benchmark-project), [monero rpc test](https://github.com/0xFFFC0000/monero/pull/17)  ). and I believe a RPC client that stress tests the daemon is the way to go.  My intended goals first this CCS:
+
+- Performance benchmarks. The performance benchmark test I am working on right now is stress testing Monerod under an intense load that tries to mimic a real-world heavy node. Right now it is in very early shape. The end goal is to mimic real-world wallet usage on the Monero daemon.
+- Completion of Read/Write Lock PR [#9181](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9181). PR 9181 is a huge change to the core of the blockchain implementation of the Monero project. It requires a lot of careful analysis and testing. Task 1 and Task 2 are kind of depend on each other. I use benchmarking results from task 1 to test/improve/debug 9181. @jeffro256_ has implemented an important and sensitive part of the 9181 code and has improved the PR with his suggestions.
+- Seraphis wallet LMDB storage. Based on our discussion in the IRC #monero group, it seems porting the entire wallet2 storage to LMDB at this point is not a wise decision. Instead of that, we should start implementing the Seraphis wallet cache with LMDB. Once I am finished with Task 1 and 2, my next big goal is to start focusing on this task. The target of this task is to have Seraphis wallet only using LMDB as its cache/storage engine.
+- Static analysis. This task hasn't been finished from my previous CCS by the time I am submitting this CCS. I am hopeful I will finish it before the end of my previous CCS. But in case I am not able to finish it, this is one of the tasks I have on my todo list: "Analyze existing static analyzers (clangd-based analyzer, NASA/ikos, Facebook/infer, etc) and report to @selsta about the possibility of adding one of them as a workflow to our GitHub repository. Target will be running static analysis on submitted PR as workflow."
+
+If all milestones are not claimed within 100 days of start of the CCS, then this CCS will automatically expire and remaining funds should return to GeneralFund Wallet.
+
+### Who
+
+
+I have been contributing to the Monero core repository for the past few months with a total of multiple ([PRs]( https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A0xFFFC0000+)) merged commits thus far. Because i have been averaging over 40 hours a week, I have decided to change my CCS to full time work. Some ongoing contributions:
+
+- Implemented Read/Write lock mechanism for core blockchain implementation. [9181](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9181).
+- Helped review multiple [PRs](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pulls?q=is%3Apr+reviewed-by%3A%40me).
+- Helped to review and fix multiple HackerOne reports with @selsta.
+
+A special thanks to all community members who are always available to help me with technical questions.
+
+Previous Proposals:
+
+- [429](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/429)
+
+### Funding
+
+- 30xmr/mth * 3 months = 90xmr
+- Schedule: 40hr/week * 12week
+
+
+Freedom wins.
+0xFFFC
\ No newline at end of file

0xfffc-2024Q3.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: "0xfffc full-time C++ development (3 months, Sep, Oct, Nov, 2024)"
+author: 0xfffc
+date: 14 Aug 2024
+amount: 111
+milestones:
+  - name: 160 hours
+    funds: 37
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: 160 hours
+    funds: 37
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: 160 hours
+    funds: 37
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+  
+### What
+
+The bulk of my focus will be on opportunities related to performance improvement. To find out performance improvement opportunities a performance test suite is necessary for the Monero project. Here is a list of tasks I have on my todo list:
+
+- Dynamic BSS: The issue is dynamic BSS (block-sync-size) size. If BSS goes over a threshold, then we hit the packet limit size (100mb). I expect to hit the serialization limit (https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9433) too at some point if we fix the packet size limit. This one hopefully will be solved by the time this CCS kicks in.
+
+- Bandwidth-Efficent Transaction Propagation Usage: Work on the @boog900 proposal ( https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/9334 ). And reduce the communication load between peers when syncing. The final goal is to merge a PR that uses this mechanism in Monero P2P subsystem. 
+
+- OOM: Spend time on finding the root cause of OOM. Report to community and eventually submit PR fixing it.
+
+- Exclusive incoming ip: --exclusive-incoming-ip flag: (a) Require --add-exclusive-node to be set. (b) Be able to be set multiple times.
+
+- Cleanup the sleepwait: Remove this _sleep_wait_ and change it to condition variable: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/blob/cc73fe71162d564ffda8e549b79a350bca53c454/src/daemon/daemon.cpp#L198
+
+- Sync time estimation: When calculating how long it will take to finish the sync, is uses a number of blocks. Example: 200 blocks remaining, synced 20 blocks in 1 min = 10 mins remaining. It should use the size, instead of the block number.
+
+- Performance benchmarks. The performance benchmark test I am working on right now is stress testing Monerod under an intense load that tries to mimic a real-world heavy node. Right now it is in very early shape. The end goal is to mimic real-world wallet usage on the Monero daemon.
+
+- Completion of Read/Write Lock PR [#9181](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9181). PR 9181 is a huge change to the core of the blockchain implementation of the Monero project. It requires a lot of careful analysis and testing. Task 1 and Task 2 are kind of depend on each other. I use benchmarking results from task 1 to test/improve/debug 9181. @jeffro256_ has implemented an important and sensitive part of the 9181 code and has improved the PR with his suggestions.
+
+- Seraphis wallet LMDB storage. Based on our discussion in the IRC #monero group, it seems porting the entire wallet2 storage to LMDB at this point is not a wise decision. Instead of that, we should start implementing the Seraphis wallet cache with LMDB. Once I am finished with Task 1 and 2, my next big goal is to start focusing on this task. The target of this task is to have Seraphis wallet only using LMDB as its cache/storage engine.
+
+- Static analysis. This task hasn't been finished from my previous CCS by the time I am submitting this CCS. I am hopeful I will finish it before the end of my previous CCS. But in case I am not able to finish it, this is one of the tasks I have on my todo list: "Analyze existing static analyzers (clangd-based analyzer, NASA/ikos, Facebook/infer, etc) and report to @selsta about the possibility of adding one of them as a workflow to our GitHub repository. Target will be running static analysis on submitted PR as workflow."
+
+### Who
+
+I have been contributing to the Monero core repository for the past few months with a total of multiple ([PRs]( https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A0xFFFC0000+)) merged commits thus far. Some ongoing contributions:
+
+- Helped review multiple [PRs](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pulls?q=is%3Apr+reviewed-by%3A%40me).
+- Implemented Read/Write lock mechanism for core blockchain implementation. [9181](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9181).
+- Helped to review and fix multiple HackerOne reports with @selsta.
+
+A special thanks to all community members who are always available to help me with technical questions.
+  
+Previous Proposals:
+  
+- [429](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/429)
+- [438](https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-proposals/-/merge_requests/438)
+
+### Funding
+
+- 37xmr/mth * 3 months = 111xmr
+
+- Schedule: 40hr/week * 12week
+
+
+Freedom wins.
+0xFFFC

1lovera-create-educational-content.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "Create Educational Content in Spanish"
+author: Lovera
+date: December 15, 2022
+amount: 10.5
+milestones:
+  - name: Milestone 1 - Videos and Educational Articles
+    funds: 3.5 XMR
+    done: 7 March 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: Milestone 2 - Videos and Educational Articles
+    funds: 3.5 XMR
+    done: 11 April 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: Milestone 3 - Videos and Educational Articles
+    funds: 3.5 XMR
+    done: 16 May 2023
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 16 March 2023
+    amount: 3.5
+  - date: 15 April 2023
+    amount: 3.5
+  - date: 19 May 2023
+    amount: 3.5
+---
+
+### Introduction
+
+Hi Monero community, Lovera here! this is my third proposal for my work. As you know I am dedicated to create content about Monero in Spanish, in this period I would like to dedicate more time to Monero so I would like to have the support of the community. I want to be as transparent as possible. I am seeking funding from the community to working on Monero related projects all days full time. Im truly thankful for all the support i have received from the community and my sponsor Cakewallet who currently makes it possible to publish 5 videos per month about monero on my main channel.
+
+But if I am going to dedicate myself full time to Monero i will need much more, so the plan is to take the leap full-time again!
+
+#### Clarification:
+
+All the videos proposed here are a completely separate work from cakewallet's sponsorship. This means that in these videos there will be no advertising to any sponsor of the channel, in fact the monetization will be turned off. However it is not guaranteed that there will not exist ads by YouTube because since 2020 they introduce ads in any video, even if it is not monetized. 
+
+### Who?
+I'm Lovera, creator of satoshilov.com and YouTube Channels LoveraTV and LoveraXMR I'm a big enthusiast, supporter and contributor of Monero. Since 2019 I am actively sharing educational content about Monero on my social networks. I’m creating educational videos about Monero, writing guides and tutorials in Spanish. I also translate into Spanish everything related to Monero and post it on my website. You can check my Guides and articles here:
+
+* [Monero Blog](https://satoshilov.com/monero/)  
+
+And my Videos about Monero
+
+* [Monero Videos in LoveraTV](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGX_LoM5yemgt3ppLXvNBKYf6IuFI7BPS)
+
+* [Monero News on LoveraXMR](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Lfro_oKAVHxYdbD_6RkNnda8HGbKOgg)
+
+* [LoveraXMR YT Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@loveraxmr)
+
+
+### ¿What is the proposal about?
+- Create quality educational content for the Spanish-speaking community. The objective is to transmit the benefits, characteristics and importance of Monero for financial privacy, through guides, articles, videos and in general written and audio visual material.  
+- These video tutorials will not only help new Spanish-speaking users coming to Monero, but will also raise awareness of the only currency that protects users' privacy by default, yes, you could even call it marketing?  
+- I will share all this content in my social networks:  
+  - LoveraTV YT Channel: 15,000+ suscribers  
+  - LoveraXMR YT Channel: 500+ suscribers  
+  - TikTok Channel: 20,000+ suscribers  
+  - Telegram Channel: 1000+ suscribers  
+
+### Milestones and projected schedule
+
+* Create a weekly video about Monero News on LoveraXMR and shorts on LoveraTV  
+* Create a weekly video on the most common Q&A about Monero on LoveraXMR and LoveraTV 
+* Create at less 2 video per month about Monero Mining and promote the use of P2pool on LoveraXMR and LoveraTV  
+* Create at less 3 Video tutorial per month about Monero (Wallets, Node in differents OS, using tools like monero bash, GUPAX when will finished, i2p, xmr.sh, etc) on LoveraTV and LoveraXMR 
+* Create a weekly short video About monero News on TikTok and Instagram  
+* Create quality educational content by my self for the Spanish-speaking community. The objective is to transmit the benefits, characteristics and importance of Monero for financial privacy, through guides and articles. (at less 1 per month)  
+* Review and update all past tutorials  
+* promotion of Monerokon 2023 to my audience in my social media (TikTok, LoveraXMR, LoveraTV and Telegram groups)
+* maintance of the site  
+
+### Why it is important for Monero and the community?
+
+Monero is an incredible project, but there are many false beliefs and ignorance about it in the Spanish-speaking community. By providing more quality content in Spanish, we will be able to raise awareness in the Spanish community about the importance of financial privacy, about the importance and role that Monero plays in our financial activity.
+
+### How much and Payouts?
+
+A good work must be paid or rewarded, specially if this contribute to a good cause. payment on first days of every month during 3 months for my upcoming work. The price is fixed in Monero and regardless of market fluctuation (downward or upward) it will not affect the achievement of the milestones. 3.5 XMR per month for 160 hours of work, to be fair usually i spend much more time. In total: 3.5 XMR per moth - 10.5 XMR for three months. Starting from January.
+
+Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the comments.
+
+Thanks

36c3.md

 ---
-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: 36C3 Supplies
 author: rehrar
 date: 8 November 2019
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ amount: 560
 milestones:
   - name: Disperse to discretionary, multisig wallet
     funds: 560
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 16 November 2023
+    status: finished
 payouts:
   - date: 16 December 2019
     amount: 280
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 27 November 2023
+    amount: 280
 ---
 
 What up guys? It's rehrar with another CCS proposal, but this time it's not about me. We're talking about the big C3 conference.
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ We are requesting that this XMR be released immediately to a 2/3 multisig wallet
 
 Any questions or concerns can be raised on this MR, or at our weekly C3 meetings.
 
-Thanks everyone. I hope we can all make this happen!
\ No newline at end of file
+Thanks everyone. I hope we can all make this happen!

Archive-monero-code-in-uncensorable-way.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Archive Monero Github code on a self-host onion instance and sia network
+author: monero_archive
+date: August 19, 2022
+amount: 1.5
+milestones:
+  - name: Tor gitea mirror
+    funds: 1.3
+    done: 26 September 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: Sia network archive
+    funds: 0.2
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 26 September 2022
+    amount: 1.3
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+### Proposal closed
+
+The remaining funds (0.2XMR) have been donated to the general fund.
+
+Recently tornado cash is sanctioned and its github repo is deleted. Monero code should be mirrored on censorship resistant platforms to avoid being vaporized by a government order. I plan to setup a gitea hidden mirror to mirror all monero code on github as a backup, and regularly pack monero source code and upload them on sia network. Sia network is a file storage network that allows you to host large files in a very cheap and decentralized way. Unlike IPFS it guarantees your file will always be online. Funds received will be mainly used to maintain the server that host the onion gitea site. This can sustain around 1 year if the monero price does not drop too much.

DTuman_6months_full-time_on_monero-projects.md

 ---
-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: Douglas Tuman Working full-time on Monero Projects (6 months)
 author: Douglas Tuman
 date: August 30, 2021
@@ -7,23 +7,19 @@ amount: 240
 milestones:
   - name: Month 1 and 2
     funds: 80
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 13 December 2023
+    status: finished
   - name: Month 3 and 4
     funds: 80
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 13 December 2023
+    status: finished
   - name: Month 5 and 6
     funds: 80
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 13 December 2023
+    status: finished
 payouts:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 11 January 2024
+    amount: 240
 ---
 **INTRO**
 

Getting-to-grips-with-Monero.md

 ---
-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: "Curation of Getting to grips with Monero mini series"
 author: Monero-Guides
 date: November 16, 2021
@@ -7,25 +7,23 @@ amount: 12
 milestones:
   - name: Importing public keys and verifying hashes
     funds:
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 25 April 2022
+    status: finished
   - name: Setting up a node
     funds: 5 XMR
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 25 April 2022
+    status: finished
   - name: Using Monero as money
     funds:
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 25 April 2022
+    status: finished
   - name: Using monero with enhanced privacy
     funds: 7 XMR
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 25 April 2022
+    status: finished
 payouts:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 25 April 2022
+    amount: 12
 ---
 
 ## Preface 

Lovera-Create-Educational-Content.md

 ---
-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: Create Educational Content in Spanish
 author: Lovera
 date: November 06, 2021
@@ -11,19 +11,19 @@ milestones:
     status: finished
   - name: January
     funds: 33.33% (XMR 4.5)
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 31 January 2022
+    status: finished
   - name: February
     funds: 33.33% (XMR 4.5)
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 28 February 2022
+    status: finished
 payouts:
   - date: 6 January 2022
     amount: 4.5
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 16 February 2022
+    amount: 4.5
+  - date: 21 March 2022
+    amount: 4.5
 ---
 
 ### Introduction

Lovera-Create-educational-content-Spanish.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: Create Educational Content in Spanish
+author: Lovera
+date: August 28, 2023
+amount: 10.5
+milestones:
+  - name: Videos and Educational Articles
+    funds: 3.5 XMR
+    done: 7 November 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: Videos and Educational Articles
+    funds: 3.5 XMR
+    done: 3 January 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: Videos and Educational Articles
+    funds: 3.5 XMR
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 11 November 2023
+    amount: 3.5
+  - date: 15 January 2024
+    amount: 3.5
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+### Introduction
+
+Hello friends and Monero Fam, Lovera Here!
+
+This is my fourth funding request for my work. As you know I am dedicated to create content about Monero in Spanish. Im truly thankful for all the support i have received from the community. As you already know, all the videos proposed here are a completely separate work from cakewallet's sponsorship. This means that in these videos there will be no advertising to any sponsor of the channel, in fact the monetization will be turned off. However it is not guaranteed that there will not exist ads by YouTube because since 2020 they introduce ads in any video, even if it is not monetized.
+
+### Who
+
+I'm Lovera, creator of satoshilov.com and YouTube Channels LoveraTV and LoveraXMR I'm a big enthusiast, supporter and contributor of Monero. Since 2019 I am actively sharing educational content about Monero on my social networks. I’m creating educational videos about Monero, writing guides and tutorials in Spanish. I also translate into Spanish everything related to Monero and post it on my website. You can check my Guides and articles here:
+
+* [Monero Blog](https://satoshilov.com/)  
+
+And my Videos about Monero
+
+* [Monero Videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGX_LoM5yemgt3ppLXvNBKYf6IuFI7BPS)
+
+* [Monero News Videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGX_LoM5yemgVhlwCEn_Z5m0LPMxQgNZj)
+
+* [Monero Pods](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGX_LoM5yemhq5KMyPeUr6JzJSqkqjzHL)
+
+* [Monero News in LoveraXMR](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Lfro_oKAVHxYdbD_6RkNnda8HGbKOgg)
+
+### ¿What is the proposal about?
+
+Create quality educational content for the Spanish-speaking community. The objective is to transmit the benefits, characteristics and importance of Monero for financial privacy, through guides, articles, videos and in general written and audio visual material.
+These video tutorials will not only help new Spanish-speaking users coming to Monero, but will also raise awareness of the only currency that protects users privacy by default,
+
+I will share all this content in my social networks:
+
+LoveraTV YT Channel: 15,000+ suscribers
+LoveraXMR YT Channel: 900+ suscribers
+TikTok Channel: 20,000+ suscribers
+Telegram Channel: 1000+ suscribers
+Instagram Channel
+
+
+### Milestones and projected schedule
+
+LoveraXMR YouTube Channel
+
+Milestones
+
+* Go From 1000 to over 2k Suscribers on YouTube
+
+* Created 4 short Videos per month about Monero News (weekly)
+
+* Created 2 Short Video per month on the most common Q&A about Monero
+
+* Created at less 1 Video Tutorial about Monero per Month (Wallets, GUI Wallet, Node in differents OS, etc)
+
+* Created at less 1 Video per month About Monero Mining and promote descentralized p2pool 
+
+* Continue to improve our studio and production quality
+
+
+LoveraTV YouTube Channel 
+
+Milestones
+
+* Created 4 full Videos per month about Monero News (weekly)
+
+
+TikTok, Instagram :
+
+* Create a weekly short video About monero News on TikTok and Instagram
+
+
+Satoshilove (Website)
+
+* Create quality educational content by my self for the Spanish-speaking community. The objective is to transmit the benefits, 
+
+characteristics and importance of Monero for financial privacy, through guides and articles. (at less 1 per month)
+
+* Work in Moneropedia in satoshilov.com/moneropedia 
+
+* maintance of the site 
+
+### Why it is important for Monero and the community?
+
+Monero is an incredible project, but there are many false beliefs and ignorance about it in the Spanish-speaking community. By providing more quality content in Spanish, we will be able to raise awareness in the Spanish community about the importance of financial privacy, about the importance and role that Monero plays in our financial activity.
+
+### ¿How much and Payouts?
+
+A good work must be paid or rewarded, specially if this contribute to a good cause. payment on first days of every month during 3 months for my upcoming work. The price is fixed in Monero and regardless of market fluctuation (downward or upward) it will not affect the achievement of the milestones. 3.5 XMR per month for 160 hours of work, to be fair usually i spend much more time. In total: 3.5 XMR per moth - 10.5 XMR for three months. Starting from October.
+
+Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions in the comments.
+
+Thanks

MoneroKon-2022-CCS.md

 ---
-layout: fr
+layout: cp
 title: "MoneroKon 2022 CCS"
 author: midipoet
 date: December 7, 2021
 amount: 328 XMR
 milestones:
-  - name:
-    funds:
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+  - name: Funds paid out
+    funds: 328
+    done: 21 February 2022
+    status: finished
   - name:
     funds:
     done:
     status: unfinished
 payouts:
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 21 February 2022
+    amount: 328
 ---
 
 # MoneroKon 2022 Funding

MoneroSigner.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: "MoneroSigner. Fork of seedsigner for Monero."
+author: Monero-HackerIndustrial
+date: June 08, 2022
+amount: 55.38
+milestones:
+  - name: seedsigner emulator audit
+    funds: 0 
+    done:
+    status: Finished
+  - name: moneroSignerLibraries
+    funds: 0 
+    done:
+    status: inprogress
+  - name: PortableMoneroQR research and standard creation
+    funds: 14.2 
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Monerosigner Beta Build
+    funds: 28.4 
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Companion Application
+    funds: 7.1
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: DIY scripts & docs
+    funds: 5.68
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+----
+### Proposal Closure/Transferral 17th June 2024
+
+All remaining funds (55.38 XMR) have been transferred to/repurposed for: [MoneroSigner Resurrection](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/%20MoneroSignerResurrection.html)
+
+Effective immediately:
+
+- HackerIndustrial is hereby terminated from this project and relinquishes any claim to the remaining CCS funds.
+- The project will now proceed under vthor, who has already achieved significant progress in a matter of weeks, demonstrating the competence and dedication required.
+
+----
+
+The Monero community could benefit from a fork of [seedsigner](https://seedsigner.com/) to supports Monero. Seedsigner uses an air-gapped Raspberry Pi Zero to sign for Bitcoin transactions. The project aims to make it easy for anybody to make a dedicated offline signing device out of low-cost commodity computer components (raspberry pi zero). This helps in reducing the need to trust hardware verndors. The most private hardware wallet, is the only only **you** know about.  
+
+Seedsigner is focused only on Bitcoin, because of this, the UI/UX and features are not very helpful to Monero users.
+
+### Why?
+
+Supplychain poses a significant attack vector to hardware manufacturers, this threat is exacerbated when dealing with cryptocurrency devices. Monerosigner offers a DIY hardware wallet built out of easy* to source over the counter general hobbyist parts. This makes it easier for users to self custody their keys on their own devices. 
+
+### Proposal 
+
+I plan on creating a Monero specific fork of seedsigner called Monerosigner. Monerosigner is an offline signing hardware wallet built around the raspberry pi zero SBC. The hardware comes with a companion desktop application called Monerosigner Companion. With the companion application users are able to send unsigned transactions via QR codes to Monerosigner. 
+
+### Who:
+HackerIndustrial, I recently created some Monero themed decorative circuit board meant to be hung as [Christmas ornaments](https://genesisboards.com/crypto-circuit-ornaments/4-monero-light-up-circuit-board.html). I have done work in the web3 space and noticed a lack of self custody hardware devices. 
+
+### What:
+
+A Monero centric version of "seedsigner". I am forking the codebase and removing the bitcoin compnents and replacing them with Monero/Privacy specific features. 
+
+Monerosigner features:
+- Generate seed from dice rolls
+- Generate seed from mnemonic phrase
+- Import seed from QR code 
+- Generate Addresses from accounts 
+- Load unsigned transactions via QR 
+- Sign unsigned transactions 
+- Upload signed transactions to companion app via QR codes 
+- Generate view only wallet & Export 
+~~- GPG key generate ~~
+~~- GPG PUBkey share ~~
+
+Monerosigner companion application (Desktop):
+- Transfer unsigned transactions via QR code 
+- Transfer signed transactions and upload to network 
+
+Monerosigner self custody Documentations:
+- Help users built their own images 
+- Help users build their own devices
+- Help users with opsec/security best practices 
+
+PortableMoneroQR:
+- Data transfer standard for QR codes with a focus on lower end cameras and screens
+- Variable data sizes with different frame rates 
+- Application agnostic
+
+
+### Milestones 
+
+#### Milestone (-1)- monerosigner-emulator
+
+I forked the seedsigner emulator from https://github.com/enteropositivo/seedsigner-emulator. I did a simple audit of the code and hosted my version at following location: https://github.com/Monero-HackerIndustrial/monerosigner-emulator
+
+The emulator should help development and testers be able to use monerosigner without needing hardware. 
+
+#### Milestone 0 - moneroSignerLibraries
+
+I created a monerosigner core libraries. These libraries are then used on the device for all monero related function. Having the libraries as a separate project helps with portability of the code base. Many of the functions on the library will be used for the companion application
+
+#### Milestone 1 - PortableMoneroQR 
+
+https://github.com/Monero-HackerIndustrial/PortableMoneroQR
+The portable QR standard is a compression/pagination standard for data frames for offline data transfer. There has been a lot of different projects through the years but they didn't deal with the smaller device constraints. (Smaller devices contain smaller screens and cheap/lowres cameras). 
+This is a research project with 2 deliverables after research:
+1. Standard definition 
+2. Sample library in python. 
+
+
+#### Milestone 2 - Monerosigner Alpha Release  
+
+I will have created a beta version with all the Monerosigner features listed above. This version can be made available as an image build for flashing to sd cards. The source code will be available on github but requires some technical knowledge to setup and troubleshoot. This is considered an early alpha build for testing. 
+
+
+#### Milestone 3 - Monerosigner Companion Application 
+
+I will create a very barebone desktop application that allows the generating of unsinged transactions into QR codes. The application will also be able to get signed transactions from the Monerosigner device via QR codes and a webcam. 
+
+
+#### Milestone 4 - Monerosigner DIY scripts and documentation
+
+I will create scripts to make it easier for less technical users to be able to build their own images without having to rely on my prebuilt images. The scripts come with documentation for helping users get started. 
+
+
+~~~~#### Milestone 4 - USB gadgetmode
+I will integrate usb gadgetmode which will help signing of large messages and will not require a webcam.~~~~
+I am saving the usb gadget mode for future proposals. This is not included in this proposal
+
+
+
+Code will be published on github. Any of the code I contribute can be of the preferred community license. Any code forked will be a fork of the original license. (Someone more experienced with different license types can chime in).

Rucknium-OSPEAD-Fortifying-Monero-Against-Statistical-Attack.md

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ amount: 171
 milestones:
   - name: Milestone 1 - Deliver fully specified estimation plan to scientific review panel
     funds: 67
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 23 September 2022
+    status: finished
   - name: Milestone 2 - Deliver initial probability density function to scientific review panel
     funds: 74
     done:
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ milestones:
     done:
     status: unfinished
 payouts:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 24 September 2022
+    amount: 67
   - date:
     amount:
   - date:

Rucknium-Statistical-Research.md

+---
+layout: wip
+title: Rucknium Statistical Research
+author: Rucknium
+date: March 28, 2024
+amount: 204
+milestones:
+  - name: Month 1
+    funds: 33% (68 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Month 2
+    funds: 33% (68 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Month 3
+    funds: 33% (68 XMR)
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+## What
+
+I propose to carry out statistical research to improve Monero's privacy, guide protocol decisions, and respond to Monero developer requests for statistical analysis of code changes where needed. In the short term I will complete in-progress analysis of the suspected transaction spam attack to provide a comprehensive view of the options to defeat this attack and possible future ones. This involves producing a Monero Research Lab research bulletin from the draft of ["March 2024 Suspected Black Marble Flooding Against Monero: Privacy, User Experience, and Countermeasures"](https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Black-Marble-Flood/pdf/monero-black-marble-flood.pdf). I will work with ArticMine to evaluate changes to ring size, fees, and block size scaling parameters to balance privacy, usability, and decentralization. Some items to complete the draft research bulletin:
+
+- Derive the tradeoff function between ring size and transaction fees, i.e. how does a marginal increase in each variable affect the cost to a potential attacker?
+- Simulate the combined black marble attack and Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition from Vijayakumaran (2023) to evaluate vulnerability to chain reaction analysis.
+- Estimate any changes in the real spend age distribution during the spam incident using OSPEAD techniques. Movement toward more recent outputs suggests more evidence for the spam hypothesis.
+- Create a node network crawler that seeks the source of large transaction volumes. Possibly combine the crawler with statistical analysis techniques of Sharma, Gosain, & Diaz (2023).
+- Finish the research literature review.
+
+Once the black marble flood analysis is completed, I would move to other research priorities:
+
+- PocketChange privacy evaluation
+- Ring member binning
+- Fee discretization and fee prediction
+- Safety of adjusting the 10 block lock
+- Preparation of a paper describing OSPEAD for peer review and research journal publication
+- EAE/EABE attack and churning
+- Network privacy through steganography
+
+I will not be able to complete all of these projects during this work period. Research priorities can be modified at Monero Research Lab meetings due to new events or findings.
+
+I am nearing completion of [the OSPEAD improvement to Monero's decoy selection algorithm](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/Rucknium-OSPEAD-Fortifying-Monero-Against-Statistical-Attack.html). OSPEAD probably can only be safely implemented at a hard fork boundary because multiple decoy selection algorithms being used at the same time is [a potential threat to user privacy](https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Fungibility-Defect-Classifier/pdf). In the short them, analysis of the suspected flood attack is a higher priority. After, I will put hours into finishing the OSPEAD CCS proposal. Then after OSPEAD I will return to putting hours into this CCS proposal.
+
+## Who
+
+I am an empirical microeconomist. My recent contributions to Monero include:
+
+- [Discovery of a mining pool misconfiguration. Sped up average time to first transaction confirmation by 60 seconds.](https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/11nu4aj/monero_transaction_confirmations_are_now_60/)
+
+- [Privacy vulnerability report to Exodus Wallet about nonstandard fees. Successfully resolved.](https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/176e1zr/privacy_advisory_exodus_desktop_users_update_to/)
+
+- ["Discussion Note: Formula for Accuracy of Guessing Monero Real Spends Using Fungibility Defects"](https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/blob/main/Monero-Fungibility-Defect-Classifier/pdf)
+
+- [Identification of privacy-reducing nonstandard transaction fees](https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/tree/main/Monero-Nonstandard-Fees)
+
+- [Analysis of the privacy impact of Mordinals (Monero NFTs)](https://reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/12kv5m0/empirical_privacy_impact_of_mordinals_monero_nfts/)
+
+- [Monerotopia 2023 presentation: "A Statistical Research Agenda for Monero"](https://github.com/Rucknium/presentations/blob/main/Rucknium-Monerotopia-2023-Slides.pdf)
+
+- [Statistical privacy analysis of P2Pool coinbase outputs in ring signatures](https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/109)
+
+- ["Closed-form Expression of Monero's wallet2 Decoy Selection Algorithm"](https://github.com/Rucknium/misc-research/tree/main/Monero-Decoy-Selection-Closed-Form/pdf)
+
+Pull requests reviewed for statistical issues:
+
+- [wallet: mitigate statistical dependence for decoy selection within rings](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/9023#issuecomment-1802593848)
+
+- [wallet2: prevent duplicate outs](https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/8047#issuecomment-967113046)
+
+- [monero-serai: fix decoy selection algo and add test for latest spendable](https://github.com/serai-dex/serai/pull/384#issuecomment-1870597406)
+
+## Budget
+
+I will work 20 hours/week for three months (13 weeks). My fiat-equivalent labour rate is the same as my previous proposal, adjusted for the lower purchasing power of the USD today: 110 USD/hour. The average daily opening USD/XMR exchange rate for the last 14 days (2024-03-15 to 2024-03-28) according to CoinGecko was 139.49.
+
+The above numbers compute to `20 * 13 * (110/139.49) = 205.0326`. Rounding down to get whole numbers for the three milestones sets the total budget for this proposal to 204 XMR paid in three milestones of 68 XMR each. This proposal expires on January 1, 2025.
+
+## References
+
+Sharma, P. K., Gosain, D., & Diaz, C. (2023). "On the Anonymity of Peer-To-Peer Network Anonymity Schemes Used by Cryptocurrencies." Proceedings 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.
+
+Vijayakumaran, S. (2023). "Analysis of CryptoNote Transaction Graphs using the Dulmage-Mendelsohn Decomposition." 5th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2023), volume 282 of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs).

The-Monero-Moon-CCS-Proposal-March2022-John-Foss.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Funding for The Monero Moon Newsletter - 2022
+author: John Foss
+date: March 2, 2022
+amount: 36
+milestones:
+  - name: Publish issues #34 through #39
+    funds: 12 XMR
+    done: 21 April 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: Publish issues #40 through #45
+    funds: 12 XMR
+    done: 2 June 2022
+    status: finished
+  - name: Publish issues #46 through #51
+    funds: 12 XMR
+    done: 21 July 2022
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 1 September 2022
+    amount: 36
+---
+
+THE MONERO MOON NEWSLETTER - Funding
+
+WHAT: The Monero Moon is a free weekly news publication created in 2018 in an effort to keep the Monero community up to date on all the latest news and developments related to Monero. I aim to achieve this by aggregating all the relevant information into one convenient location in an easy-to-digest format. I sift through the noise so you don’t have to. I also endeavour to cross promote other Monero initiatives as much as possible, while also encouraging others to participate in or support the Monero project.
+
+The Monero Moon is independently published by myself on Medium. I have already published 32  issues. View previous issues 1-32 here. I am in the middle of trialling different newsletter platforms such as Ghost and Substack, however am yet to make the switch to a different platform. 
+
+Weekly readership has been varied, and it has appeared that readership increases the more social media promotion gains traction.
+
+Issues from 2018 regularly had on avg 1.5k views per issue, and issues #12 to #32 have averaged 1.2k views per issue. The number of views appeared to be correlated to the price of XMR, meaning the higher the price or the more upwards trajectory the price showed correlated to view count. The most views a single issue has received was approximately 2.5k views (issues #22 & #27) 
+
+WHO: I am John Foss. Like many of you, I am a firm believer and supporter of the Monero Project. I have previously written Monero articles on Medium, a couple of How To Buy Monero Guides for the Monero.How website, and wrote Your Guide to Monero, and Why It Has Great Potential back in 2018 which I posted to r/cryptocurrency and had over 25k views and received 1.5k upvotes. Besides that, I have been following Monero for a fair while now, generally hanging out on r/xmrtrader and Twitter, and I also occasionally venture over to the IRC channels.
+
+WHY: As Monero continues its journey, I believe it is extremely important for everyone (community members and outsiders looking in) to be able to closely follow along with all the latest news and developments surrounding Monero, whether it's the latest community update from the developers, or if Monero was featured in a large media publication. And I believe The Monero Moon will help bridge that gap. I believe that the Monero Moon will be extremely beneficial for the growth and adoption of Monero as the newsletter will continue to help spread awareness.
+
+THE PROPOSAL AND MILESTONES: As stated in my previous CCS, as Monero grows in popularity, it takes more and more time to put together an issue from start to finish. It currently takes me about 10 hours of work per issue. This involves me researching and collating the information, writing it up, then publishing and promoting it via social media platforms.
+
+I am proposing to publish The Monero Moon for 2 XMR per issue from 16th of March until late July 2022, or whenever the CCS is complete. At the current exchange rate of approximately $163USD per XMR based on the 20 day moving average, that comes out to ~$346 per issue which I believe is fair compensation. For example, 1000 readers is equivalent to ~0.34c per read. The milestones are straightforward, for every 6 issues I publish, payment is released. This comes out to 3 milestones in total.
+
+Milestone 1: Publish issues #34 through #39 - 12 XMR 
+Milestone 2: Publish issues #40 through #45 - 12 XMR 
+Milestone 3: Publish issues #46 through #51 - 12 XMR
+
+There may be periods where I miss a week due to life commitments, however I will endeavour to cover all the recent news in one big bumper newsletter issues, and this will still just count as one issue. The newsletter issues will carry on from previous publications. Additionally, at the end of this period of 18 issues published I will re-evaluate whether I shall continue the newsletter.
+
+Cheers, 
+John Foss
+
+

VOSTOEMISIO-Continuation-of-Core-Monero-Concepts-A-Series-of-Animated-Explainers.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: Continuation of Core Monero Concepts - A Series of Animated Explainers
+author: VOSTOEMISIO
+date: October 3, 2023
+amount: 1
+milestones:
+  - name: Random X and Understanding the significance of ASIC resistance
+    funds: 18
+    done: 26 June 2024
+    status: finished
+  - name: Nodes and why every Monero enthusiast should consider running one.
+    funds: 18
+    done: 8 April 2024
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date: 30 April 2024
+    amount: 18
+  - date: 16 July 2024
+    amount: 18
+---
+
+Hey all!
+
+Thank you for the amazing reception and feedback of our first ccs-proposal and the Tail Emission video. We've seen a lot of excitement and engagement with over 7,000 accumulated views in just the initial days.
+
+Our vision is to keep diving deeper into Monero's complex and sometimes tricky and misunderstood features, translating them into short, engaging, and most importantly, understandable animated videos. Here's what we suggest to cover in this proposal:
+
+•	Random X: Understanding the significance of ASIC resistance
+
+•	Breaking down the how-to and the rationale for P2Pool.
+
+•	Nodes: Why every Monero enthusiast should consider running one.
+
+•	Fungibility: Explaining its essence in the context of Monero.
+
+Quality & Timeline: 
+
+As we've showcased in our recent work, we promise high-quality output, similar to our Tail Emission video ( https://youtu.be/sRwSqM0YBto?si=vAFA7iRUWAvaV5Wi ). In this proposal, we are committing to an accelerated timeline and we aim to finalize and release one video per month. Therefore, we aim to wrap up the entire series in just 4 months after proposal’s approval. However, acknowledging the potential for unforeseen challenges, we request an additional 2 months as a buffer, making the total proposed timeline 6 months. We estimate each video to be approximately 2 minutes in length.
+
+Budget & Collaboration: 
+
+Given the scope, we propose 18 XMR per video, a total of 72 XMR for the entire series, broken down across milestones. As with our first video, we will collaborate with Xenu, sharing 5 XMR per video of the funds with him. This collaboration ensures the technical soundness of our scripts and storyboards, guaranteeing that each video is not only engaging but also accurate. As always, we are open to adjustments based on feedback and the evolving requirements of the project.
+
+Open Source & Community:
+
+Post-completion, all materials and animations will be open-sourced for the community's further use and reference.
+We're eager to dive deep and clarify these essential Monero concepts with everyone. Your feedback, suggestions, and enthusiasm drive us, and we're all ears for what you have to say.
+
+//VOSTO
+
+ www.vostoemisio.com
+
+2CA8 85AC 923F 07A3 3656 8425 83F1 9CFF 27BE A177
+
+

VOSTOEMISIO-FCMP-Animated-Explainer.md

+---
+layout: fr
+title: "VOSTOEMISIO - FCMP Animated Explainer Video and Remake Introductory Video"
+author: VOSTOEMISIO
+date: July 29, 2024
+amount: 33
+milestones:
+  - name: Complete Introductory Video
+    funds: 13
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+  - name: Complete FCMP Video
+    funds: 20
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+Hey Everyone,
+
+After receiving the community’s feedback, we're excited to announce our revised proposal: two videos, one explainer about FCMP (Full-Chain Membership Proofs) and a remake of the outdated "What is Monero?" video. This will be our 4th and 5th video for the Monero CCS. 
+
+Our previous videos covering core Monero concepts like Tail Emission, the importance of running a node, and RandomX have been informative, engaging, and uploaded on Getmonero.org, shared across X and YouTube. We believe that visual learning and breaking down complex ideas into digestible formats are highly effective, and we aim to do the same with FCMP and the introductory video.
+
+Although we haven't finalized the script yet for the FCMP video, we're committed to delivering a high-quality video approximately 2-3 minutes long, or however long it needs to be to effectively explain the concept. We're proposing a budget of 20 XMR for this video. This is slightly higher than our initial proposal since we agreed to extend the scope to include both dark and light backgrounds. As before, Xenu will assist with the script and storyboard, with 5 XMR allocated for his contribution. Additionally, we've reached out to kayabaNerve (Luke Parker) for fact-checking the script to ensure accuracy, and he's agreed to help us. A big thanks to him for his support.
+
+Additionally, we have been approached and encouraged to refresh the introductory video on the website about "What is Monero?". The current information is outdated and incorrect, and the visuals could definitely be improved. This is the first video people who visit the website will watch, and it likely has the most views of any Monero video. We are ready to refresh the script, update the technical information to ensure accuracy, and make the branding cohesive with the other animated explainer videos we have created through the Monero CCS, all of which have already been uploaded to the Getmonero website. We are seeking 13 XMR to complete this part of the proposal. 
+
+As always, we will open-source our project materials after completion.
+We believe we've done a good job of gathering the community's feedback so far in our previous proposals, and we'll continue to do so by posting our script and storyboards on Matrix and here in the repo.
+
+If anyone has any questions or suggestions, please feel free to chime in.
+
+Thanks!

VOSTOEMISIO-TailEmission-Concept-Video.md

+---
+layout: cp
+title: VostoEmisio Animated Tail Emission Core Concept Video
+author: VOSTOEMISIO
+date: May 12, 2023
+amount: 9
+milestones:
+  - name: Complete Script
+    funds: 3
+    done: 26 September 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: Complete Look and feel
+    funds: 3
+    done: 26 September 2023
+    status: finished
+  - name: Complete Video
+    funds: 3
+    done: 26 September 2023
+    status: finished
+payouts:
+  - date: 6 November 2023
+    amount: 9
+---
+
+Hey everyone!
+
+Since this is my first CCS proposal, I thought I'd give you a quick intro to who we are:
+
+I run a marketing company in the traditional space. Here, we work under the name "VostoEmisio,". We've already done some work for Monero and other privacy-centric projects. Our journey began in early 2022 when we helped Rucknium revamp the logo and branding for these two projects:
+https://bchmempool.cash/
+https://beta.redteam.cash/
+
+This year, we won the Monerokon 3 Design Proposal (www.monerokon.com), and we're currently working on brand refreshing and marketing for Firo: https://forum.firo.org/t/fcs-proposal-firo-3-month-trial-marketing-contract/2905/4
+
+However, we haven't had the chance to show off our skills in motion assets and animation yet. As a long-time Monero user, I find it frustrating when browsing crypto-Twitter and seeing basic misconceptions like "infinite supply," "can't scale," and "dynamic block size???" still being spread, particularly by the uninformed "BTC maxis."
+
+So, I propose that we create an animation series featuring short (1 min or so), ELI5-style explainer videos that break down the key concepts of how Monero works in a simple and digestible way that could easily be shared every time we, the community, face misleading comments. I suggest we start with one video and, if the result is satisfactory, create more based on the community's preferred topics.
+
+### Promise and assurances:
+
+- With the budget for this proposal, we're confident we can deliver quality on par with this example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYOSfEgF32Y&ab_channel=XPLAI
+- Completion expiry date set to 4 months post-approval for this proposal
+- Open-sourcing the project materials after completion
+
+If that sounds good to you all, I'd be happy to jump into the details and start working on the script and storyboard. I would like to start with ( as our name vosto emisio also springs from), the tail emission concept. 
+
+Regarding the budget, we're not sure, but we're willing to try this out for 9 XMR for the first video. We can adjust the amount up or down after we see how the first project goes since this would be our first official collaboration with the community. I believe this project will take about a month to complete, maybe a bit longer since this is our first time working with the community.
+
+Any questions or thoughts?
+
+
+    

adrelanos-debian-package.md

 ---
-layout: wip
+layout: cp
 title: "Monero Debian Package Repository for 2 years"
 amount: 73
 author: Patrick Schleizer
@@ -11,19 +11,19 @@ milestones:
     status: finished
   - name: "Monero Debian Package Maintenance 2021"
     funds: 25% (18 XMR)
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 31 December 2021
+    status: finished
   - name: "Monero Debian Package Maintenance 2022"
     funds: 25% (18 XMR)
-    done:
-    status: unfinished
+    done: 13 March 2023
+    status: finished
 payouts:
   - date: 18 February 2021
     amount: 37
-  - date:
-    amount:
-  - date:
-    amount:
+  - date: 21 March 2022
+    amount: 18
+  - date: 21 May 2023
+    amount: 18
 ---
 
 ### Importance to the Monero Community