For Cycle 41

[alvasw]

Summary

Specify the total amount of BSQ you are requesting, along with the USD total and BSQ/USD rate (don't include the brackets!):

• BSQ requested: 8000
• USD requested: 6000
• BSQ rate: 0.75 USD per BSQ
• Previous compensation request (if applicable): For Cycle 40 #1159

Contributions delivered

Add contributions you have delivered and roles you have performed here as new rows in the table below. Role line-items should include an asterisk (*) in the team column.

Title	Team	USD	Link	Notes
BitcoindMineInitialRegtestBlocks: Increase timeout to 1 minute	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#511
Let Bitcoin Core manage its wallet files	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#512	Currently, we store the Bitcoin Core wallet files in Bisq's data directory. The disadvantage of this approach is that we cannot run Bitcoin Core on another machine. This change lets Bitcoin Core fully manage all its wallet files.
Use one global bitcoind instance for all integration tests	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#513	At the moment, each test class starts its own Bitcoin Core instance. This causes slow CI tests and high resource usage.
Electrum: Enable Windows Support	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#514
Windows: Switch to regular Electrum executable	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#515	Switch from portable Windows executable to regular executable.
Electrum: Fix ElectrumX (server) hostname	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#516	Electrum assumed that ElectrumX (server) is running on the same host. This assumption is not true on Windows because ElectrumX is not officially supported on Windows. Most devs run the ElectrumX server in a Linux container or VM and connect to it from Windows.
GitHub Actions: Use absolute bin path (ElectrumX)	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#519
Create json-rpc library	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#520	The json-rpc library that we are currently using doesn't properly clean up all resources. On Windows it blocks the Electrum Daemon. It's better to create a new simple json-rpc client that supports batching and asynchronous calls.
Electrum: Migrate from CLI to JSON-RPC	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#521	We generated the config file using the electrum binary in the past which lead to several issues. Now, we manually generate the config file and no longer need to rely on the CLI.
Electrum: Switch to new JSON-RPC library	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#522	The old JSON-RPC library blocks Electrum on Windows after a few RPC calls. Adapting the old JSON-RPC library turned out to be harder than switching to a modern approach (supporting asynchronous calls, ...). Then new library is more flexible and performant.
Electrum: Remove Jackson Databind dependency	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#523	This dependecy was needed for the old JSON-RPC library.
BitcoindGetAddressInfoResponse: Follow field naming convention	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#524
Move AssertJ testing library to 'java-conventions' project type	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#525
JSON-RPC: Specify OkHttp lib version using BOM	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#526
Add HttpLoggingInterceptor to JsonRpcClient	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#527
JSON-RPC: Specify OkHttp BOM and Moshi in version catalog	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#528
Electrum: Remove setters in RPC response classes	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#529
GitHub Actions: Remove unused ids from build.yml	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#530
GitHub Actions: Rename 'setup-bitcoin-core' action to 'install-wallets'	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#531
Use single ElectrumXServer instance for all integration tests	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#532
Use single Electrum instance for all integration tests	dev		bisq-network/bisq2#533
	dev	6000		Total for items above.

[ripcurlx]

As dev team lead I approve this compensation request for dev. Please submit your CR to the DAO for voting and post the transaction ID here afterwards. Thanks!

@alvasw Do you have an idea how far we are away from getting Bisq 2 production ready with Bisq easy?

[alvasw]

@ripcurlx I'll PMed you a more detailed list. We're mostly feature complete. Chimp implemented almost everything before he left. I'm at the moment, verifying that Bisq 2 is working on all operating systems.

A rough roadmap/todo-list:

• There have been bugs that were only present on certain OSes. Linux and Windows work now. I'll test soon everything on macOS.
• We need a wallet UI, the current one sucks. It was a prototype for Bitcoin Core and Liquid.
• Look DDOS protection (chimp implemented this already, and it should work)
• Properly initialize and manage Tor
• Maybe I2P. c4talys7 used to work on I2P, but he left the project. It would be good to have I2P as a backup for Tor, but we could launch initially without it.
• Review the crypto code and if it's not too much work switch to Noise Framework (used by WhatsApp, WireGuard, Lightning, I2P, ...) instead of relying on our custom crypto.

[alvasw]

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[ghost]

Issuance by Team:

team	amount BSQ	amount USD
dev	8000.00	6000.00

Total Issuance: 8000.00 BSQ (equivalent to: 6000.00 USD)

[MwithM]

Closed as acceped.