01:17:41 <needbrrrrrrr90> https://twitter.com/CakewalletXMR/status/1262079532137418761
01:17:41 <monerobux> [ Cake Wallet (Stay Home) on Twitter: "#Monero is not an altcoin. #bitcoin cannot do what #monero can do - thus not an "alternative".… " ] - twitter.com
01:17:45 <needbrrrrrrr90> I like that.
01:18:11 <needbrrrrrrr90> If Monero is an altcoin, it's an alternative to something for it's use
01:18:31 <needbrrrrrrr90> and there realistically isn't anything that Monero is currently an alternative to, in it's use
10:02:11 <h4sh3d[m]> Hi Monero Community!
10:02:12 <h4sh3d[m]> I would like to probe wheter the Monero community would be ready to finance a week of research on atomic swaps?
10:02:13 <h4sh3d[m]> So far, I've carried out the latest research on my spare time. I can now use my working time to continue, but for that, I need financial support.
10:02:17 <h4sh3d[m]> The research would focus on adapting a variant of the protocol presented at 36C3 (https://github.com/h4sh3d/xmr-btc-atomic-swap/tree/dl-proof) to include ECDSA adaptor signatures.
10:02:31 <h4sh3d[m]> If the research results in an implementable protocol, I will also be interested in making a reference implementation in Rust, based on rust-bitcoin and monero-rs (my library).
10:02:38 <h4sh3d[m]> If the feedback you give me goes in this direction, I will register a request on the CCS.
10:02:40 <h4sh3d[m]> Long live Monero and to the moon!
10:02:47 <h4sh3d[m]> (You can find the latest discussion I had in #monero-research-lab here https://monerologs.net/monero-research-lab/20200513#c69049-c69076)
10:06:56 <ErCiccione[m]> I think many would be interested. How much are you planning to ask as reward?
10:09:34 <ErCiccione[m]> h4sh3d[m]: ^
12:09:06 <h4sh3d[m]> I would say around 1.1k USD
12:09:50 <h4sh3d[m]> *equivalent in USD
12:11:41 <selsta> h4sh3d[m]: I would write a proposal
12:11:50 <selsta> I’m sure the community wants atomic swaps :)
13:46:37 <hyc> just out of curiosity - what is your track record of previous work on Monero, or other open source projects?
13:59:16 <h4sh3d[m]> hyc: on Monero I've worked on Rust libraries (https://github.com/monero-rs), atomic swaps, and I also did one PR on the monero wallet RPC. On Bitcoin I did some little contribution on rust-bitcoincore-rpc.
14:07:51 <hyc> thanks
16:34:28 <TrasherDK> I don't get why anybody would want to swap, atomically or otherwise, perfectly good Monero into potentially filthy surveillance coins. Laundromat for tainted crap.
16:38:53 <hyc> yes, that's still the big puzzle to me too.
16:39:03 <hyc> I personally would never do it