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.
- Ongoing discussions and research around the idea of offering a certain level of decentralization to this forum by @emi_dm and @Leandrodimarco. Related brainstorming with Discourse co-founder and initial/exploratory tests.
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 2021-06-30, 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 0.77544821 BCH at 2021-06-30.
For reference, here is the 2021 ledger file: 2021BCHResearch.ledger (7.5 KB)
Checksum: SHA256: 73AF1FF75A653E10E953AAB4C9433819741FA634B32850BB8AABB6046CE4B540
Thanks a lot to the owners of the following addresses for their kind donations:
qqm30jqq8avmqqtwg2qfn9h2k5lstcgftc7tv2upd7
qzzjjpgawstrmvkezgyacmwp3447h3ukfgpgmks4zc
qqnc9hnneaqmjlcc4ske4kxe92udmykmduxq5tydk0
qrjc9zjf45qw0uql34633v7m69tknsr9ps9v9j7u8m
qz6eqqxwrkr6ge5lhl8mhe23fgptp3yyhv80hflc4j
qr90r0petz06mmtpuza49ppvg69tn9e4r59wyck4gx
qqfxhye8fx79ysmx74rzk92g0tm94xmkq5n5f0qvu6
qz4dhw6mv0ylqxk74f2jheu7ucpmhxd9fsd6mpc22k
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: 16 (all donated time).
VII. Statistics
–Thanks to all contributors who believe that small details can create significant changes and trigger positive network effects.