For Cycle 20

[freimair]

Summary

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• BSQ requested: 4286
• USD requested: 3000
• BSQ rate: 0.70 USD per BSQ
• Previous compensation request (if applicable): For Cycle 20 #709

Contributions delivered

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Title	Team	USD	Link	Notes
Reduce bandwidth requirement on Bisq startup	dev	3000	bisq-network/projects#25	the project got completed recently, and given the design is the design I came up with, I claim compensation for the feasibility study, the proof of concept implementation (bisq-network/bisq#4233), and some overhead + reduced to chimp's suggestion of being 50% of the projects initial value

A sidenote to this: It is pretty sad that Bisq treats his contributors that way. First, the desperately needed measures get delayed, then project proposals are required, then the proposals get ignored, then delayed and finally, after the work is done, someone comes along, uses the production-ready code to create a similar PR which then gets merged and all the work done over months are denied compensation. It seems like again Bisq only values a written line of code - not the data collection, investigation, design steps to create a proper solution.

Besides that, I know, I already left the project. And there are people in Bisq which seem to be very keen to get me out. And after I am gone there is no point in compensating anything really - it is at least common practice in the industry. And I firmly believed that Bisq is different, yet, Bisq steals from me. 1k5$ (#709 (comment)) for the project is not compensation, it is a message - and I got it the first time around.

That being said, may Bisq prevail, I certainly hope so. Yet, I fear that there are some radical changes necessary which might not come in time.

Contributions in progress

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[MwithM]

Proposal phase ended, this proposal should be submitted for Cycle 20. Please edit the title.

[freimair]

@MwithM @ripcurlx this cr is not in the review project. Any reason for that?

[MwithM]

No, I just forgot to put it into, sorry.

[freimair]

Since time is running short and it seems like this CR is not going to get a nACK/ACK in time (again), I file the CR anyways and thereby trust the Bisq community to come to a proper conclusion.

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[MwithM]

Cycle 20 DAO vote failed. Submit a new DAO request for next cycle.