Boog900 submits CCS proposal for 4 months of full-time Cuprate dev work

Boog900¹ has submitted a new CCS proposal² looking to continue full-time development work on Cuprate³ for 3 months and also get compensated for January work:

I will work for 3 months on Cuprate with an initial focus on releasing an alpha cuprated [..] 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. [..] I am asking for 40 XMR for my work in January.

Total funding: 160 XMR ($55/h @ 480 hours).

ETA: ~3 months.

January work overview

• #344 finished the init PR
• #366 worked on improving consensus API
• #382 Started working on issue 174
• #377 Investigated why monerod was syncing the first 100,000 blocks faster than cuprated
• Started working on changing monero-oxide’s tx type to use compressed points⁴
• Started working on fast-sync⁵

To learn more about Boog900’s work, consult their most recent progress report⁶.

To share your feedback, ask questions and support this CCS, visit !544².

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.