Bitcoin Cash Research promotes and operates under a standard of transparency towards the ecosystem. This report works in the direction of that principle. It details relevant aspects of the operation and welcomes any feedback that helps to fulfill the proposed vision.
I. Activity Highlights
- General maintenance and database backups by @emi_dm.
- Migration to Discourse 2.7.0.beta8 on development environment and test by @emi_dm.
- Migration to Discourse 2.7.0.beta8 on production environment by @emi_dm.
II. Activity Lowlights
- Discussions and research around the idea of offering a certain level of decentralization to this forum on hold by @emi_dm and @Leandrodimarco. This is due to the high degree of activity from other tasks and projects during the reference month. Progress is thought to continue asap.
III. Next Steps
Proposed actions under analysis and consideration.
- Increase the number of moderators under an expected userbase expansion.
- Progress in the platform’s decentralization and build the necessary resources to make the platform even more capture resistant.
- Define a policy for the release of periodic backups while protecting users’ private information.
- Define a policy for access to the server.
IV. Financial
Bitcoin Cash Research maintains its accounts using plain text accounting and hledger software via a ledger file (in attach at the end of this section), which will henceforth be included in a public repository as soon as possible.
Based on this public ledger, Bitcoin Cash Research is able to account for all its financial movements and produce suitable reports using auditable open-source software.
By 2021-04-30, our accounts and their respective funds are as follows.
Our expenses for this period are described by the following.
Based on our operational expenses, income and liabilities derived Balance Change, Income Statement and Balance Sheet are as follows.
Resulting in a Net of 0.03557169 BCH at 2021-04-30.
For reference, here is the 2021 ledger file: 2021BCHResearch.ledger (4.5 KB)
Checksum: SHA256: 88697CDEFDA3D2124C0FD59A4CF83CAC77E25648C80EDF7ABB1641F1173D9C06
Many thanks to the owners of the following addresses for their kind donations:
qzl7nm2w48rcxrpwa9kp0gaatl6k8sf09vxc20mcyx
qrl594k7g44ucv65t34uyvxwkvwkc6gvzuafrkqrmu
qrelay2vzcmu7akh8mznjjj9lv8g92d3egnhj7g9t4
Thanks to @bitcoincashautist for the pizza!
OP_RETURN: Pizza time! – bitcoincashautist
V. Funding
Project funds are held by team members in a 2-of-3 multisig Electron Cash wallet:
bitcoincash:pzjue7kdusgh706ns3sh0yu3dw9jv5h5ly2u0zqxh5
This wallet intends to receive donations and cover operational expenses.
VI. Personnel
Total man hours for this period: 12 (all donated time).
VII. Statistics
–Thanks to all contributors who believe that small details can create significant changes and trigger positive network effects.