[bisq-network/roles] Founder (#1)

[Manfred Karrer]

##2018.06 report

We tried to redistribute some roles from Chris to take workload from him due his health issues as well as to push the process of decentralization of the organizational elements of Bisq. Unfortunately not too many new contributors have taken over some of those roles so those contributors who have already too many roles got now even more. 

I supported Christoph for preparing his first release.

Beside that I tried to actively find developers and it looks promising. Chi will help us on the BSQ-DAO specially for adding unit tests and later integration/system tests probably with using and implementing the gRPC API. Beside that we had a lot of interesting discussions related to many other open features (e.g. reproducible builds, fee estimation service, Bitcoin Core in SPV or other alternatives to BitcoinJ, monitoring, gRPC API,...).   

I was in contact with Florian the developer who will work on the P2P network and he will start soon working on Bisq. He was delayed in his plans due personal reasons with moving to another flat.

I approached Oscar Guindzberg who is busy atm with another projects but signaled interest. He is a main contributor to BitcoinJ and worked on Rootstock (RSK).

I implemented the merit/reputation part for voting in the BSQ-DAO. I also started to work on padding to allow BSQ transfer below dust limit (below 546 satoshi) but it turned out that this would make the whole system much more complex and error prone so I kept that in a separate branch and did not merge it. Atm it is not planned to support padding.

I am in contact with Neiman who helped a lot with conceptual feedback and review of the BSQ-DAO.
Neiman started a high level document about the BSQ-DAO where he designed an interesting mental model for the system. Very promising and a missing part for a document which will help us to communicate the BSQ-DAO concept to people in the crypo space who are quite familiar with the technology and concepts (e.g. for inviting a code reviewer).

He also recommended a developer with whom he is working and we had a long call discussing a lot of aspects of the BSQ-DAO. He is busy atm with other projects but hopefully will contribute in future.

Beside that I am a "mentor" for the Bisq notification mobile app and gave some conceptual feedback as well as did some basic tests. The prototype for iOS is already in a good shape and Joachim is working on the Android version right now. The main missing parts will be the Bisq UI integration (see proposal for it) and the relay server node (similar like pricenode).

I also try to support Bernard with the API work but I think he is atm busy with other stuff.

I try to find the right balance of getting enough progress on the BSQ-DAO code as well as not ignoring problems with the running application. As we got more reports of problems with failed trades and/or lost messages I decided to prioritize that area and implemented Acknowledge messages for all P2P network messages which should help us to find more out about the error cases as well as to give feedback to the user if the message has arrived.

A user had unfortunately a charge back case that month with Zelle of about 400 USD. We don't know much as the bank only stated that the other bank reversed the transfer due fraud but did not say which type of fraud it was. It might likely be a "stolen bank account" fraud. 
We should continue to look into additional protection schemes, either implement those from the proposal or find better solutions.



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