December 2017 IT expenses (payroll)

[Rob Andrews]

For the month of December I am attempting to recover IT expenses for web hosting, AWS integration, our wikipedia and some payroll.


The linux web hosting fee for one year for the non-wiki site (http://www.biblepay.org):
$140.58
http://pool.biblepay.org/SAN/Expenses/WebHostBiblepay2017.png

Next, the linux web hosting fee for one year for the wiki site (http://wiki.biblepay.org):
$63.83
http://pool.biblepay.org/SAN/Expenses/WebHostWiki2017.png


Next, the Zinc integration fee for October and November 2017 (did not receive the bill for December 2017 yet) - this allows us to integrate with the amazon storefront for in wallet purchases:
$200.00

http://pool.biblepay.org/SAN/Expenses/ZincOct2017.pdf
http://pool.biblepay.org/SAN/Expenses/ZincNov2017.pdf


Next I am only asking for 120 hours of payroll for doing the initial git push for biblepay at $40.00 per hour totaling $4800.00:
https://github.com/biblepay/biblepay
https://github.com/biblepay/biblepay/commits/master?after=db75cc7a1cfde21cf694dc882f731783f28a0ae7+34

(This is for programming time based on the commits checked in for the month of September 2017). 

TOTAL:  $5204  from the IT budget
    Or
867,333 BBP (@ .0006 per bbp)

[togoshigekata]

The main pool has integrated features: faucet, gospel links, orphan letter writing, proposal system
This is why I haven't really advertised the MinersOfMen pool since Id like people to use this main pool for those abilities, specially the orphan letter writing.
I think at some point these features could be moved out, but I like that it is all in one place, one stop shop. And that there is a mining reward for letter writing.
So I think payment for pool development work is definitely warranted, is definitely IT and definitely part of development.
I don't think Rob listed any pool work here though, I think his documents he linked are stored on the pool.

[togoshigekata]

Sorry as well for hijacking the thread.

I forgot to add that I do agree with your conflict of interest concerns on the pool 616,
there has been a lot of FUD around the fact that Rob is running the main pool, which potentially scares some miners and investors, especially since there are some targeting BiblePay that have been amplifying this concern. (similar concern has come up recently about charity fund in the subreddit, sigh) [but I do think the reduced mining fee for writing letters gets a lot of miners writing letters who otherwise wouldnt write any letters]

I think the masternode letter writing is a neat idea, but I think it might be too small of a pond to just have masternodes writing letters (currently 84 masternodes), when there are potentially hundreds or thousands of others out there in the future that may be interested in writing letters (as well in the future there may be thousands of orphans to write to, even tens of thousands). Though I do understand more people more problems and there have been some already trying to game the current system. Hopefully a similar system that youve brought up could be applied to all users (though it is very hard to pinpoint anonymous users over the internet, as they can change IP addresses / email addresses, etc and keep attempting to game the system)

[togoshigekata]

Woops I misread, sorry!
I think same scaling issue could happen though, once there are thousands to tens of thousands of letters, will be hard for a small group of people to check them all. I still think its a good idea, just if we could somehow apply it to everyone where we identify programatically users who are good at checking. I see your point of reducing the workload on Rob since he is currently the final gatekeeper, but it looks like any sort of solution will also require some dev work.

[Rob Andrews]

The main pool has integrated features: faucet, gospel links, orphan letter writing, proposal system
This is why I haven't really advertised the MinersOfMen pool since Id like people to use this main pool for those abilities, specially the orphan letter writing.
I think at some point these features could be moved out, but I like that it is all in one place, one stop shop. And that there is a mining reward for letter writing.
So I think payment for pool development work is definitely warranted, is definitely IT and definitely part of development.
I don't think Rob listed any pool work here though, I think his documents he linked are stored on the pool.

Not sure where Klondike (Slovakia) got that idea- I never even posted expenses for the pool yet.

I only posted hours for the initial github push of the core client in September.

Klondike please click on links and read before spreading new FUD.