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layout: cp
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title: xiphon part time coding (3 months)
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author: xiphon
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date: 5 April 2019
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amount: 111
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milestones:
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- 1st-month:
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funds: 33% (37 XMR)
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done: 18 June 2019
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status: finished
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- 2nd-month:
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funds: 33% (37 XMR)
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done: 4 October 2019
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status: finished
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- 3rd-month:
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funds: 33% (37 XMR)
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done: 4 October 2019
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status: finished
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payouts:
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- date: June 22, 2019
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amount: 37 XMR
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- date: 4 October 2019
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amount: 74
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# What
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Part time Monero coding for 3 months. Have a couple of distinct things i want to address and start working on first:
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1. Decentralized remote node scanning/selection for both CLI and GUI wallets
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Provide an easy to use option for Monero remote node users. A feature to sync the wallet and send transactions without relying on any centralized service or specific remote node.
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2. Improving GUI requests processing to prevent GUI unresponsiveness and lagging.
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Improve communication between GUI wallet and the daemon, hardware wallets.
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Is an important issue that affects UX and overall product quality.
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3. Additionally will be working on the GUI and CLI code, submitting bug fixes and addressing the ongoing issues, putting my efforts where it is appropriate
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# Who
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I'm Xiphon, pretty familiar and contributed to Monero core and GUI codebase, helped to implement subaddress support and other missing parts in CCS backend.
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Feel free to check the following links to inspect my Monero-related commits:
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- https://github.com/monero-project/monero/commits?author=xiphon
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- https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/commits?author=xiphon
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- https://repo.getmonero.org/monero-project/ccs-back/commits/master
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- https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/pull/2422 (Monero address validator for Bisq)
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# Proposal
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10 hours per week at 55 USD/hour rate for a total of 111 XMR. XMR/USD rate is based on the 14-day moving average exponential on Kraken from 5 April 2019, which is approximately 59.36 XMR/USD.
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## Decentralized remote node scanning/selection for both CLI and GUI wallets
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As a part of this approach I've implemented `--public-node` (already merged) mode. Once it is enabled user's daemon starts to advertise its public RPC port to others through P2P.
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And also committed `--no-sync` cli switch that optionally prevents a daemon from downloading the blockchain.
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Regarding the proposal I plan to introduce `--bootstrap-daemon auto` mode that will lookup for available public nodes (collect the list over P2P) and then proxify (utilizing current `--bootstrap-daemon` implementation) any incoming RPC request to automatically selected remote node.
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Both used in conjunction `--no-sync --bootstrap-daemon auto` on the wallet side and having enough volunteers running their nodes in `--public-node` mode will achieve the specified goal (CLI wallet).
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Finally, I will integrate it into GUI wallet to enhance the Simple Mode.
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## Improving communication between local daemon and GUI wallet
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Current GUI wallet lags and UI becomes unresponsive for quite a noticeable and annoying time during wallet operations. Hardware wallet communications (Ledger/Trezor) freeze the UI as well.
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Will locate the code parts that block the UI in order to implement background and/or kind of async requests processing. Might involve some related optimizations and speedups. |