Monthly Progress Report - August 2020

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.
  • Update to Discourse 2.6.0.beta2 by @emi_dm.
  • Progress in the project to integrate CashID to the forum by @Jimtendo. Addition of email_verified field to OIDC response to prevent services from automatically linking accounts.
  • Installation of Discourse OpenID Connect plugin at production environment by @emi_dm.
  • Configuration of Discourse OpenID Connect plugin by @Jimtendo and @Leandrodimarco.
  • CashID availability for login and signup including web app at production environment by @jimtendo (still experimental).
  • Registration of research.cash domain by initiative of @fast_badger.
  • Redirection of research.cash to bitcoincashresearch.org by @Leandrodimarco.

II. Activity Lowlights

Nothing to report.

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 2020-08-31, our accounts and their respective funds are as follows.

Our expenses for this period are described by the following, considering that some of them are represented with minimum symbolic prices as they were part of donated time by collaborators.

Based on our operational expenses, income and liabilities derived Balance Sheet and Income Statement are as follows.

Resulting in a Net of -2.16080638 BCH at 2020-08-31
Ledger file: 2020BCHResearch.ledger (9.4 KB)
Checksum: SHA256: 08E4DE51F4CAA73FF2B324D6ACCA6A003296168A016B1DC151DB08342D9367A0

V. Funding

Project funds are held by team members in a 2-of-3 multisig Electron Cash wallet:

bitcoincash:ppnkcswttvpdlpcqar9qtlkzuqwann949y2t5fyd5d
qr-code 200
This wallet intends to receive donations and cover operational expenses.

VI. Personnel

Total man hours for this period: 20 (all donated time).

VII. Statistics

–Thanks to all contributors who believe that small details can create significant changes and trigger positive network effects.

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