The Bitcoin Cash Node (BCHN) project practices and promotes transparent reporting.
Project funds are held by team members in a 3-of-5 multi-signature wallet.
This wallet is used to receive donations and pay for project expenses (general funding of BCH Node operations, including personnel, equipment and contracting).
All our spending transactions are on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain except when we dispose of airdropped equity caused by fork coins which we convert into BCH.
We use open source wallet software (Electron Cash) and maintain our accounts using plain text accounting in a ledger file which is part of the public project management repository on GitLab.
Based on this public ledger, the project can account for all its income and expenses and produce financial reports using auditable open source software.
Please refer to the Links section at the bottom for links to previous financial reports.
Project account details as of 2021-04-17
The statements below cover transactions up to and including on April 16, 2021 (more precisely, up to block 683,597
).
4016.79354612
BCH was held by the project at the time of writing. This represents an increase in available funds of about 907.4
BCH since the previous report in February 2021, primarily due to a very generous donation of 1000
BCH by an anonymous donor later in February 2021. The project remains in an excellent financial state.
All expenses below fall within the scope of our funding proposal (link above). Since project start, a total of 532.44113705
BCH has been spent so far, broken down as indicated.
assets:crypto
0.09918690 ABC bchabc
4016.81536272 BCH bitcoincash
532.44113705 BCH expenses
480.12615415 BCH development
87.97578591 BCH backporting
40.04174199 BCH bounty
0.25000000 BCH doc
0.50000000 BCH feature
6.09334702 BCH review
11.00000000 BCH security
6.25000000 BCH test
15.94839497 BCH website
62.65460295 BCH daa
259.79315983 BCH general
5.48696844 BCH general verification
24.17389503 BCH website
6.80363425 BCH flipstarter
9.42064836 BCH general
7.94961242 BCH i18n
7.98748784 BCH infrastructure
0.00781289 BCH mining fees
0.00781289 BCH bch
0.00705620 ABC bchabc
42.26504030 BCH pr
40.26504030 BCH representative
2.00000000 BCH video
2.05464187 BCH translation
-4389.65496582 BCH income
-4389.65496582 BCH donation
-0.13440078 ABC donation_replay
-2063.99958445 ABC equity:abc_fork
Income
Currently BCHN derives its income mainly from donations.
The donations below include those made directly to our project donation address and those forwarded from tips on this site.
A total of 4389.65496582
BCH had been received in donations since the start of the project in February 2020. About 22% of that was raised via the original Flipstarter campaign which successfully completed on 26 April 2020, yielding 978
BCH in funding for BCHN's initial project proposal. 1000
BCH was received in an anonymous donation in August 2020, another 1000
BCH in January 2021 and a 1000
BCH more in February 2021. The remainder was received from several business and personal donations.
There are many other anonymous donations making up the remainder, but some of our biggest known donors include ASICseer.com, Marc de Mesel and Georg Engelmann.
We thank everyone who has generously donated to us during the time since our last report.
Expenses
Below are the project's expenses since the last overview on February 8, 2021. They amount to 93.20576781
BCH over that period. The mining fees have been excluded.
2021-03-01 ex:pr:representative 2.59336099 BCH
2021-03-01 ex:development:general 1.03734440 BCH
2021-03-01 ex:development:general 4.97925311 BCH
2021-03-02 ex:development:general 7.26348547 BCH
2021-03-02 ex:development:general 7.29927007 BCH
2021-03-31 ex:development:general 12.07546170 BCH
2021-03-31 ex:development:general 21.17202268 BCH
2021-03-31 ex:pr:representative 2.35849056 BCH
2021-04-01 ex:infrastructure 1.10091743 BCH
2021-04-01 ex:development:website:general 0.56285178 BCH
2021-04-01 ex:development:general 0.02520183 BCH
2021-04-02 ex:development:general 15.88058519 BCH
2021-04-02 ex:development:general 4.14035088 BCH
2021-04-03 ex:development:general 11.71717172 BCH
2021-04-15 ex:development:bounty:security 1.00000000 BCH
In the time since the last report, BCHN activity was focused on removal of the unconfirmed transactions limits, implementation of multiple OP_RETURN and other general development in preparation for the May 15, 2021 network upgrade. This resulted in the release of BCHN v23.0.0.
One security bounty of 1
BCH was awarded in this period.
1.66376921
BCH were spent on website maintenance and infrastructure.
4.95185155
BCH were spent on public relations, covering two monthly payments to our representative.
85.59014705
were spent on client software (and documentation) development and maintenance.
Basic statistics about BCHN project ledger
These are derived from hledger tool's statistic report.
Main file : bchn.journal
Included files : prnc2exht3zxlrqqcat690tc85cvfuypngh7szx6mk.journal
prnc2exht3zxlrqqcat690tc85cvfuypngh7szx6mk_replays_to_abc.journal
pp03e95qz7yene7v4vdx2vfsqx4qsq4wfvw8z3pkjf.journal
Transactions span : 2020-02-22 to 2021-04-17 (420 days)
Last transaction : 2021-04-16 (1 days ago)
Transactions : 2320 (5.5 per day)
Transactions last 30 days: 57 (1.9 per day)
Transactions last 7 days : 10 (1.4 per day)
Payees/descriptions : 1
Accounts : 25 (depth 4)
Commodities : 3 (, ABC, BCH)
BCHA fork coin airdrop and policy
On November 15, 2020, Bitcoin ABC created a spin-off currency by forking away from the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) currency.
This new coins is referred to as 'ABC' or 'bchabc' in our ledger files.
The BCHN project received an amount of ABC's coin equal to the amount of BCH held in our wallet at the time and entirely converted these (approx. 2064
ABC coins at the time) into around 159.6
BCH by November 19, 2020.
Since then, the project holds virtually no more ABC coins except a minimal amount which has been received since due to replaying of regular donations made to our BCH wallet (the 'donation_replay' income position).
If ABC coin donations reach a significant amount, the project may convert them to BCH in the future as it does not intend to hold them. At time of this report the ABC coin holdings amounted to less than 7
USD, the increase from the last report being due mostly to a price increase of the ABC coin.
SLP donation address
The project has a SimpleLedger (SLP) token donation address.
simpleledger:qrjv4klcn9z5kqeye3ps64pr6aa4mzux8cy776pm6k
Currently, the project has received and is holding donations of 2,000,000 SPICE 🌶️ , 1,000 USDt and few other tokens have been sent to the address.
As we conduct our payments exclusively in Bitcoin Cash up to now, we have yet to set up a ledger file to account for token holdings. We may do so for main tokens like SPICE, but not generally for all random tokens sent our way, as this would be a way to spam the project.
Links
Previous financial overviews:
Report on security disclosure by Positive Security:
Flipstarter funding proposal:
English, v1.1 (PDF)
Chinese, v1.1 (PDF)
Spanish, 1.1 (mediawiki)
Getting in touch with BCHN:
Website: https://bitcoincashnode.org
Development & support Slack chat invite link: https://join.slack.com/t/bitcoincashnode/shared_invite/zt-egg3c36d-2cglIrKcbnGpIQFaKFzCWA
Telegram: https://t.me/bitcoincashnode (there is a bridge channel to our Slack)
IRC channel: Join #bchnode on Freenode (we see messages on our Slack via an IRC bridge channel)
Logs of our development Slack: http://logs.bchnode.org/
Main development repository on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bitcoin-cash-node
Easy download link via our website: https://bitcoincashnode.org/download.html
Full releases on Github: https://github.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bitcoin-cash-node/releases
Donation address: https://bitcoincashnode.org/#donate
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitcoincashnode
Image credits:
Lead background image based on work by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
So this how it works. It's still a bit confusing to me but I get a small gist of that. I just hope BCH wll reach $2000 once again and until then BCH supporters now will do buy and HODL.