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Standalone AcceptXMR

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+layout: fr
+title: Standalone AcceptXMR
+author: busyboredom
+date: February 31, 2023
+amount: 14
+milestones:
+  - name: Maintenance
+    funds: 14
+    done:
+    status: unfinished
+payouts:
+  - date:
+    amount:
+---
+
+# Standalone AcceptXMR
+Another payment gateway CCS proposal.
+
+## Summary
+I would like to create a standalone, dockerized, AcceptXMR-based payment gateway with wordpress
+support.
+
+AcceptXMR ([demo](https://busyboredom.com/projects/acceptxmr),
+[docs](https://docs.rs/acceptxmr/latest/acceptxmr/),
+[repo](https://github.com/busyboredom/acceptxmr/)) is a payment gateway library (or crate, in rust
+lingo) I wrote as a hobby project and have made available to the community. While my library serves
+its purpose well, I understand that most merchants are not programmers therefor cannot use
+AcceptXMR.
+
+This proposal aims to make AcceptXMR usable for anyone capable running a docker container and
+installing a wordpress plugin.
+
+## Why AcceptXMR
+Lots of reasons!
+* View pair only, no hot wallet.
+* Subaddress based (as opposed to the older integrated addresses).
+* Pending invoices can be stored persistently, enabling recovery from power loss.
+* Ignores transactions with non-zero timelocks.
+* Zero-conf works out of the box.
+* No local node, wallet RPC, or block explorer needed. Just pick a public remote node.
+
+And of course, I am already intimately familiar with it.
+
+## How It'll Happen
+I will dedicate a portion of my weekends (you can expect about 10 hours a week on average) to
+completing the following milestones. There will be some weeks with more progress and others with
+less, but that's the average I'll be aiming for.
+
+### Dockerize AcceptXMR
+_14 XMR from xmrSale's abandoned funding._
+
+This is the largest milestone. I'll be taking the webserver and frontend work you see in my demo,
+cleaning it up significantly to bring it up to production standards and dockerizing it for easy
+setup. I will also provide documentation on how to perform that setup.
+
+### Wordpress Plugin
+_10 XMR from xmrSale's abandoned funding._
+
+Wordpress is popular, and it has a plugin system that supports custom payment gateways. I will write
+a wordpress plugin for the freshly dockerized AcceptXMR implementation. I will also provide
+documentation on how to use the plugin.
+
+### Maintenance for 1 Year
+_20 XMR total, with 6 XMR coming from xmrSale's abandoned funding and the remaining 14 XMR coming
+from this CCS proposal._
+
+Both rust and monero have rapidly changing ecosystems. Left alone, my work would likely be out of
+date by the end of the year due to breaking changes in my library's dependencies if nothing else.
+Keeping AcceptXMR up-to-date and functional is something I currently do for free, but building out a
+full standalone gateway adds overhead. For this reason, I've bookmarked 20 XMR for maintenance for 1
+year from the funding date.
+
+I am hesitant to provide target dates for first  two milestones above, but I have been maintaining
+AcceptXMR for over a year now and I don't plan on ghosting on it now.
+
+## Stretch Goals / Future work
+I'm not promising any of the following happens, but I'm putting it here to let the community know
+it's on my radar and I want to do it if I get the opportunity:
+* TOR support for the daemon RPC connection.
+* A no-JS frontend. I have an example with this implemented on github, but I'll have to clean it up
+a bit and integrate it into the new dockerized setup.
+* ZMQ support as a more performant alternative to polling the remote node.
+
+## Prerequisites
+Before I start work on this CCS, I'll need to wrap up changes I'm making with v0.12.0 of AcceptXMR.
+I'm not charging for that work, I'm just disclosing here that I need to resolve the issues in that
+milestone before I start work on this CCS.
+
+## License
+AcceptXMR is dual-licensed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. I am not planning on changing the
+license. It will always be under a permissive license.
+
+## About Me
+Busyboredom is _not_ an anonymous alias, you can see my minimally-redacted resume on my personal
+website [busyboredom.com](https://busyboredom.com).
+
+Proposal Expiration: January 1st, 2025.
+
+Note: This CCS was originally intended to be funded entirely by the 30 XMR leftover from the abanoned
+xmrSale project. At the request of the community, I have extended my maintenance commitment and
+increased the maintenance budget by 14 XMR. This change allows CCS donors to act as a final check on
+whether this proposal goes forward.