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BCHN Financial Report 2022-12-08

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). https://bitcoincashnode.org/#donate All our spending transactions are on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain except when we dispose of non-BCH coins, received through airdrops or other means, which we may 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. https://www.electroncash.org/ https://plaintextaccounting.org/ https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bchn-project-management/bchn-pm-public/-/blob/master/finance/bookkeeping/bchn.journal 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 2022-12-08 The statements below cover transactions up to and including on December 08, 2022 (more precisely, up to block `770,107`). `3188.93124188` BCH was held by the project at the time of writing. This represents an decrease in available funds of `1235.13339528` BCH since the previous report in June 2022. The project remains in a good financial state. Since project start, a total of `2578.28881336` BCH has been spent so far, broken down as indicated. assets:crypto 0.13141780 ABC bchabc 3188.93124188 BCH bitcoincash 2578.28881336 BCH expenses 2164.41198537 BCH development 87.97578591 BCH backporting 40.54174199 BCH bounty 0.25000000 BCH doc 0.50000000 BCH feature 6.09334702 BCH review 11.00000000 BCH security 6.75000000 BCH test 15.94839497 BCH website 62.65460295 BCH daa 1932.22806063 BCH general 5.71632624 BCH general verification 35.29546765 BCH website 6.80363425 BCH flipstarter 20.54222098 BCH general 7.94961242 BCH i18n 249.75377220 BCH external:verification:scaling 7.98748784 BCH infrastructure 5.10000000 BCH marketing mining fees 0.00846524 BCH bch 0.00705620 ABC bchabc 148.77246084 BCH pr 146.77246084 BCH representative 2.00000000 BCH video 2.25464187 BCH translation income -5602.51852793 BCH donation -0.16663168 ABC donation_replay -5.09999336 BCH refund:marketing -2063.99958445 ABC equity:abc_fork Income Currently BCHN derives its income entirely 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 `5.83834617` BCH in new donations was received during this reporting period. A small amount of previously donated `1000` USDT was converted to BCH during this period, resulting in another `5.51186990` BCH, for a total income of `11.35021607` BCH during the period. A negligible amount of BCHA/ABC/XEC) was received as a result of replayed BCH donation transactions (this can be seen in the replay journal file). A total of `5602.51852793` BCH had been received in donations since the start of the project in February 2020. About 17% 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. Thereafter some big anonymous donations have been received: https://bitcoincashnode.org/en/newsroom/bchn-flipstarted https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bchn-project-management/bchn-pm-public/-/raw/master/finance/funding/campaigns/2020-q2-flipstarter/pdf/Bitcoin_Cash_Node_Flipstarter_Funding_Proposal_v1_1.pdf `1000` BCH in August 2020 `1000` BCH in January 2021 `1000` BCH in February 2021 `1000` BCH in November 2021 `200` BCH in May 2022 The remainder was received from several business and personal donations. Some of our biggest known donors include ASICseer.com, Marc de Mesel, Georg Engelmann and 'zveda'. 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 June 7, 2022. They amount to `1246.48344103` BCH over that period, or about 208 BCH / month (compared to ~ 203 BCH / month over the previous report's period). The mining fees have been excluded. 2022-07-02 ex:development:website:general 4.35626804 BCH 2022-07-02 ex:development:general 9.95916741 BCH 2022-07-02 ex:development:general 14.93428912 BCH 2022-07-02 ex:development:general 119.31987670 BCH 2022-07-02 ex:development:general 21.03960396 BCH 2022-07-02 ex:pr:representative 12.01923077 BCH 2022-07-07 ex:external:verification:scaling 73.48300971 BCH 2022-08-01 ex:development:general 18.95306859 BCH 2022-08-01 ex:development:general 47.84775386 BCH 2022-08-01 ex:pr:representative 9.05797101 BCH 2022-08-03 ex:external:verification:scaling 33.13239886 BCH 2022-09-01 ex:development:general 86.39545056 BCH 2022-09-01 ex:pr:representative 10.86956522 BCH 2022-09-01 ex:development:general 13.15789474 BCH 2022-09-09 ex:external:verification:scaling 51.20294916 BCH 2022-10-01 ex:development:general 50.57803400 BCH 2022-10-02 ex:development:general 30.70472641 BCH 2022-10-04 ex:pr:representative 10.50420200 BCH 2022-11-01 ex:pr:representative 10.82063711 BCH 2022-11-01 ex:development:general 82.25820417 BCH 2022-11-01 ex:development:general 129.84764542 BCH 2022-11-01 ex:development:general 102.17391304 BCH 2022-11-01 ex:development:general 10.86956521 BCH 2022-11-01 ex:development:general 36.02620087 BCH 2022-11-30 ex:development:general 11.06194690 BCH 2022-12-01 ex:development:general 88.02032266 BCH 2022-12-01 ex:pr:representative 11.16071429 BCH 2022-12-01 ex:development:general 17.29910714 BCH 2022-12-01 ex:development:general 52.45535714 BCH 2022-12-02 ex:development:general 13.63636364 BCH 2022-12-02 ex:development:general 59.36073059 BCH 2022-12-05 ex:development:general 3.40909091 BCH 2022-12-05 ex:development:website:general 0.56818182 BCH In the time since the last report, BCHN activity was directed towards: review and implementation of CHIPs and related application changes for the May 2023 Bitcoin Cash network upgrade bug fixing optimization improvement of tests and benchmarks code cleanup general backports technical investigations and reports on various node client software architectures user support No bounties were awarded in this period, but a bounty process is in development. `64.4323204` BCH were spent on user relations, covering six monthly payments to our representative. This amount is relatively higher (in BCH) due to the worse conversion rate of USD/BCH during this period. `1019.30831304` BCH were spent on client software development and maintenance. `4.92444986` BCH were spent on website maintenance and content. `157.81835773` BCH were spent on an external contract with Software Verde to conduct scaling tests with various software infrastructure components. This is a concluded contract which ran from 1 April 2022 to 31 August, with final payment being made on 9 September 2022. It is categorised as 'external' in the above expenses. Software Verde reported their contractual progress on this work on the Bitcoin Cash Research site. Basic statistics about BCHN project ledger These are derived from hledger tool's statistic report. Main file : bchn.journal Included files : prnc2exht3zxlrqqcat690tc85cvfuypngh7szx6mk.journal pp03e95qz7yene7v4vdx2vfsqx4qsq4wfvw8z3pkjf.journal prnc2exht3zxlrqqcat690tc85cvfuypngh7szx6mk_replays_to_abc.journal Transactions span : 2020-02-22 to 2022-12-07 (1019 days) Last transaction : 2022-12-06 (2 days ago) Transactions : 2539 (2.5 per day) Transactions last 30 days: 16 (0.5 per day) Transactions last 7 days : 10 (1.4 per day) Payees/descriptions : 1 Accounts : 28 (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. It is now traded under the symbol XEC and branded as "eCash" on most exchanges / explorers. 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 4 USD, the decrease from the last report being due to bear market and price fluctuation 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 🌶️ , `5` USDH and few other tokens have been sent to the address. `1000` USDt held previously have been converted to BCH (refer to Income section above). 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. SmartBCH The project does not, at this time, keep a SmartBCH wallet. We will keep you informed of developments and post any related information, such as a SmartBCH donation address, on the project website. Links https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2021-11-24-2fd7a1a4#links Previous financial overviews: Financial overview in report of 14 March 2020 https://read.cash/@freetrader/bchn-lead-maintainer-report-2020-03-14-84f2992d#financial-overview Financial overview in report of 31 March 2020 https://read.cash/@freetrader/bchn-lead-maintainer-report-2020-03-31-1e0a4c39#financial-overview Financial overview in report of 15 April 2020 https://read.cash/@freetrader/bchn-lead-maintainer-report-2020-04-15-449fc115#financial-overview BCHN Financial Report 2020-06-03 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2020-06-03-d2a0232f BCHN Financial Report 2020-07-07 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2020-07-07-d04c7e65 BCHN Financial Report 2020-09-03 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2020-09-03-a477d4e2 BCHN Financial Report 2020-10-20 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2020-10-20-85ecb54c BCHN Financial Report 2020-12-05 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2020-12-05-db64dbdf BCHN Financial Report 2021-02-08 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2021-02-08-ae9d834d BCHN Financial Report 2021-04-17 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2021-04-17-d849b874 BCHN Financial Report 2021-06-11 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2021-06-11-b114bb7c BCHN Financial Report 2021-11-24 https://read.cash/@bitcoincashnode/bchn-financial-report-2021-11-24-2fd7a1a4 Flipstarter funding proposal: English, v1.1 (PDF) https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bchn-project-management/bchn-pm-public/-/raw/master/finance/funding/campaigns/2020-q2-flipstarter/pdf/Bitcoin_Cash_Node_Flipstarter_Funding_Proposal_v1_1.pdf Chinese, v1.1 (PDF) https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bchn-project-management/bchn-pm-public/-/blob/master/finance/funding/campaigns/2020-q2-flipstarter/pdf/Bitcoin_Cash_Node_Flipstarter_Funding_Proposal_v1_1_CN.pdf Spanish, 1.1 (mediawiki) https://gitlab.com/bitcoin-cash-node/bchn-project-management/bchn-pm-public/-/blob/master/finance/funding/campaigns/2020-q2-flipstarter/proposal/proposal-es.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) https://read.cash/search?q=%23bchnode 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 Follow us on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bchnode Image credits: Lead background image based on work by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/users/geralt-9301/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=5180477