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moneromoo is well-known contributor with a string of commits and good pull requests: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master?author=moneromooo-monero

I personally support his application for funding, as does the rest of the core team. He has committed to working for 260 hours over 6 months or so (until they run out) at a total cost of 7800 XMR, ie. 30 XMR per hour. This is obviously a vastly reduced rate for a competent C / C++ developer, and moneromoo is taking on the effort in his spare time in the hopes that the XMR will be worth significantly more some day.

Milestones will be time based, with 1300 XMR released every 45 hours worked (or 35 hours for the last bit). As with all funding using the FFF (forum funding system) the funds will only be released to him on completion of a milestone and on a general community agreement that there was work done in that period. He will not be expected to put in a timesheet, per se, but he will be expected to provide a list of things he worked on and associated PRs / commits for that period.

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moneromooo edited 8 years ago Weight: -94 | Link [ - ]

That's the last milestone gone - 35 hours, smaller than the previous one - to reach 260 hours total.

  • some more hard fork voting code (it seems to never end)
  • adding various missing IPC to the 0MQ branch, and reviving all the missing daemon commands (not yet fully merged)
  • some wallet refresh performance work, which overflowed onto the new dev contract

Thanks for the sponsorship!

nioc posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -95 | Link [ - ]

Monermoo thank you for your work. Looks like the funding for the next contract is right on time! I was more than happy to make a small contribution.

Does the hard fork voting code need to be finished before 0.9 is released?

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moneromooo posted 8 years ago Weight: -95 | Link [ - ]

The voting code will stay as is for now. It will need changing to work with alt chains after the fork, but it's not quite clear how that's going to be done yet, as the naive version would use a lot of memory, so we're not going to wait for that.

Thanks :)

Bassica posted 8 years ago Weight: -95 | Link [ - ]

Bravo!

moneromooo posted 8 years ago Replies: 2 | Weight: -122 | Link [ - ]

I dumped several days full time into monero, and I'm already at 225 hours, with the following done since last milestone:

  • last (hopefully) change on the hard fork voting code for compatibility for old daemons
  • a database dump tool to help spot differences between LMDB/BDB and the original in memory DB
  • fixes for a few RPC commands not working from the bitmonerod command line
  • conformance checks for words list (turns out the Spanish words list needs fixing, so not pushed yet)
  • versioning for LMDB and BDB formats
  • and the usual string of random fixes/tweaks
  • one can now set a custom default mixin in simplewallet

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master

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Gingeropolous posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -121 | Link [ - ]

is someone trying to finish their funded proposal so they can make another proposal while monero's cheap? :)

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moneromooo posted 8 years ago Weight: -121 | Link [ - ]

Yes, I will be post about an extension very soon. I hope monero's cheap, yes. But then I was hoping it was last time too, so who knows. If I wanted a cheap price though, I think I could just announce "some time off" instead of putting so much time in, that'd work a lot better I think :P

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Lloydimiller4 posted 8 years ago Weight: -121 | Link [ - ]

Doing an awesome job there Moneromooo! I'm so glad to have you working on Monero, you have been playing a vital role in helping shape things up. Looks like you will finish soon and then maybe be able to go for a second round of development funding. :D

moneromooo edited 8 years ago Weight: -137 | Link [ - ]

Now at 180 hours, with the following since last update:

  • more work on the hard fork code (functional changes (mixin/dust recommendations), and speedups on the initial scan)
  • a check_tx command (to complement the get_tx_key command)
  • blockchain_export can now export the blockchain's block hashes in a format that can be used by NoodleDoodle's fast sync code
  • improvements to existing tx/block query RPC to return JSON representations, and fixing print_block
  • misc other tweaks and fixes

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master

moneromooo edited 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -201 | Link [ - ]

Another 45 hours down.

This was mostly filled with the hard fork voting code, which turned out to be a larger chunk of work than I thought at first: https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/hard-fork

I also debugged and fixed the lingering issue with bitmonerod running out of file descriptors, along with misc improvements I found while doing so: https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/fd-leak

Another interesting bit was the mnemonics seed test, which failed on me. The test itself was actually wrong, and would fail with low probability: https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/seed-test

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dEBRUYNE edited 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -202 | Link [ - ]

> Another interesting bit was the mnemonics seed test, which failed on me. The test itself was actually wrong, and would fail with low probability: https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/seed-test

Could you elaborate a bit here? Does that mean some seeds are invalid and can't be restored? Sorry, not really tech-savvy here, hence my question.

Great work btw, keep on going :)

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moneromooo posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -202 | Link [ - ]

Some strings of words from the list are invalid, as they cannot be generated by any key. But any seed generated from a key is valid. The test was using a random set of words, and assuming it was valid, which it turned out is incorrect with a very low probability.

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dEBRUYNE posted 8 years ago Weight: -201 | Link [ - ]

Thanks for clarifying that!

moneromooo edited 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -243 | Link [ - ]

I reached 90 hours now, and with the following to show for the latest 45:

  • 64 bit encrypted payment IDs: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/a2d7a5fb49dedd6c7e024701eefc4c0beade1edd
  • misc fixes for print_tx being broken: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/1d678b1ee286b07fbe3904e5f282354b4ffc3810
  • use of smooth's triangular distribution to select fake outputs in the DB code: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/275894cdefeb80095b4b3463ec732c6e728f91b9
  • misc fixes to bring the new code closer to the original CN code to diminish the risk of accidental hard forks: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/533acc30eda7792c802ea8b6417917fa99b8bc2b, https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/e63b85496790b458ac8b49d9d26c9de75b84859c, and a few more
  • A command to refresh spent status for your outputs: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/aa5bc351d422fd31e66e01a46b166952ef91e958 (this leaks information to the daemon, so not for use with a third party daemon, there will be a flag for this later)
  • Per tx keys can now be optionally stored in the wallet cache, and retrieved later: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/6c995710d8cdc8dbbb3da2d11dc8dfe335074ec9. https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/e20a3ae011dcc8724d8131ba245141a6ef2c16e3
  • the cache file is now encrypted, as it contains private information: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/f19759992cbd70db8736e1485138f0af647cc047
  • misc other small fixes and improvements, the full list of commits is at https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/f19759992cbd70db8736e1485138f0af647cc047
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Gingeropolous edited 8 years ago Weight: -237 | Link [ - ]

bravo sir! 64 bit encrypted payment IDs... i need to play around with this.

I'd argue its time to make it rain!

nioc edited 8 years ago Weight: -282 | Link [ - ]

It seems like dEBRUYNE's post that moneromoo responded to doesn't show for me. I can see part of it by hovering over Reply to:

Yes more development would be great. I feel it's not a choice of either moneromoo or somebody else later on but more devs both now and later on.

Looks like moneromoo was busy over the weekend.

moneromooo edited 8 years ago Replies: 2 | Weight: -294 | Link [ + ]

I've reached the first 45 hours, ahead of schedule, so I get some buffer for the next few months already :)

These 45 hours included:

Plus random other smaller changes dotting https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master

The new tx construction code is not PRed yet, I'm waiting for comments about this. It's a fairly complex change that has implications on anonimity and blockchain size.

Encrypted payment IDs are not done yet. While the commit above works, encrypted payment IDs will be decreased to 64 bit, also on blockchain.

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dEBRUYNE posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -283 | Link [ - ]

At first I want to say you are doing great work and I greatly appreciate it!

Your finishing ahead of schedule got me contemplating a bit. I for instance wouldn't mind if you kept on working (if you have time left to do this) and finish the 260 hours in let's say 4-5 months instead of 6 months. Of course pay would stay the same since you put the same amount of hours into it, but this shortens the total time span. If you finish your total amount earlier, we could put you up for funding again (if you are still interested by then).

This is just a thought and I would like to hear your and other's opinions on this.

PS: Congratulations on the 25% price increase ;)

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moneromooo posted 8 years ago Replies: 1 | Weight: -283 | Link [ - ]

Thanks :)

I'd thought about possibly applying for an extension, maybe a month before finishing. However, maybe another coder may want to give this a go. I was surprised nobody from the core team replied to the original post. Maybe one of them might want to in a few months' time.

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dEBRUYNE edited 8 years ago Weight: -282 | Link [ - ]

An extension would be great in my opinion! There is enough room to work simultaneously and collaborate right?

Regarding the core-team: I think they currently don't have much free time to apply for this, but perhaps this will change in the future. Also, see smooth's comment regarding this -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg12090063#msg12090063

Perhaps @fluffypony could clarify a bit more? I would greatly appreciate if one of the core team members would pitch for x hours per week as well, even if it is at a higher rate or only for a few hours.

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antw081 edited 8 years ago Weight: -293 | Link [ + ]

Wow, great work!

dEBRUYNE edited 8 years ago Replies: 2 | Weight: -307 | Link [ + ]

Came back from vacation and to my pleasant suprise the target is already met! Any ideas what I should do with the 100 XMR I pledged? Should I just keep it for the next funding proposal?

@Moneromooo, it would be nice if you could give us an update every once a week (or two weeks). I hope this is feasible for you :)

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moneromooo edited 8 years ago Weight: -300 | Link [ + ]

I'm still in the middle of changes to the tx construction code. While it works, it can still be better.

If you want the latest, you can hang around IRC. And https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/branches lets you know the very latest, before even it gets PRed.

I'll also put a recap on this thread whenever I reach a milestone, which will be kinda redundant with the "this week on github" posts I make on BCT, but only for my stuff.

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rocco posted 8 years ago Weight: -307 | Link [ + ]

there will sure be new projects that need funding too :-) the monero about page needs content too, and yesterday there was discussion about CN internal functionallity on BCT, so new, understandable material on that is needed too.

smooth edited 8 years ago Weight: -316 | Link [ + ]

I will be funding the remaining 410 shortly

EDIT: sent

moneromooo posted 8 years ago Weight: -316 | Link [ + ]

Thanks everyone!

Just to let you know, I'm currently hacking on the tx construction code, to make it less prone to problems when sending large amounts. I've got it working now (it can be used as the new "transfer_new" command in simplewallet), and I'll be making further modifications after feedback from smooth and fluffypony.

hillbilly posted 8 years ago Weight: -317 | Link [ + ]

Sent some more on top of @sylviaplathlikestoblake 's contribution. Keep doing the good work.