Proposal “DCG-COMP-APR-JUN24“ (Completed)Back
| Title: | Dash Core Group Operations April - June |
| Owner: | quantumexplorer |
| Monthly amount: | 5112 DASH (288855 USD) |
| Completed payments: | 3 totaling in 15336 DASH (0 month remaining) |
| Payment start/end: | 2024-03-10 / 2024-06-08 (added on 2024-03-09) |
| Votes: | 569 Yes / 85 No / 8 Abstain |
Proposal description
Dash Core Group March 25th Funding Proposals
DCG is submitting 2 funding proposals for the budget cycle that pays out March 25th:
1) DCG Operations: 5,112 Dash per month (currently in month 1/3)
2) DCG Supplemental proposal: TBD on amount.
What does this specific proposal fund?
For the last year or so DCG only made proposals aimed for contributor compensation. We did this due to the fact that the amount in our infrastructure balance was sufficient to pay for our infrastructure needs.
We will continue to make one main proposal, however, from now on this proposal will be for what is essential for DCG to operate, this includes compensation, legal and infrastructure costs. This does not include any business development deals or marketing costs, however since DCG is now primarily a software development organization we do not anticipate any proposals related to business development or marketing in the future. We will however most likely make proposals to join specific conferences as we wish to put on full display the benefits of Dash Evolution once it is released.
This proposal funds Dash Core Group's ongoing operating costs - this includes compensation, legal and infrastructure costs. This is a multi-month proposal that will cover operating costs for April through June 2024.
What is the proposal funding?
As of March 1st, 2024, DCG has 22 paid staff at full time/close to full time associated with the project and 3 part time contributors. In addition, we have 2 volunteers who have decided to work for no compensation and 2 people who have decided to work at minimal compensation. The amount of developers we currently have is given below.
We estimate that our projected run-rate for March for compensation will be around $156,000 and around $8,000 for infrastructure. We also expect to have to pay legal expenses in the upcoming months as we transition DCG's shares to be owned by the DIF (approved by a previous proposal). With this current proposal, we are asking for total funding of $204,466 per month.
What does DCG's current structure look like?
DCG has evolved to primarily be a tech focused organization that can be grouped into 2 main parts, technology and technology support.
Technology:
Core:
Communication / Business Development / Marketing (no change):
If you have any questions, please direct them to @quantumexplorer at dashcentral to ensure we are notified of your request.
Requested funding is as follows for the March through May budget cycles:
DCG is submitting 2 funding proposals for the budget cycle that pays out March 25th:
1) DCG Operations: 5,112 Dash per month (currently in month 1/3)
2) DCG Supplemental proposal: TBD on amount.
What does this specific proposal fund?
For the last year or so DCG only made proposals aimed for contributor compensation. We did this due to the fact that the amount in our infrastructure balance was sufficient to pay for our infrastructure needs.
We will continue to make one main proposal, however, from now on this proposal will be for what is essential for DCG to operate, this includes compensation, legal and infrastructure costs. This does not include any business development deals or marketing costs, however since DCG is now primarily a software development organization we do not anticipate any proposals related to business development or marketing in the future. We will however most likely make proposals to join specific conferences as we wish to put on full display the benefits of Dash Evolution once it is released.
This proposal funds Dash Core Group's ongoing operating costs - this includes compensation, legal and infrastructure costs. This is a multi-month proposal that will cover operating costs for April through June 2024.
What is the proposal funding?
As of March 1st, 2024, DCG has 22 paid staff at full time/close to full time associated with the project and 3 part time contributors. In addition, we have 2 volunteers who have decided to work for no compensation and 2 people who have decided to work at minimal compensation. The amount of developers we currently have is given below.
We estimate that our projected run-rate for March for compensation will be around $156,000 and around $8,000 for infrastructure. We also expect to have to pay legal expenses in the upcoming months as we transition DCG's shares to be owned by the DIF (approved by a previous proposal). With this current proposal, we are asking for total funding of $204,466 per month.
What does DCG's current structure look like?
DCG has evolved to primarily be a tech focused organization that can be grouped into 2 main parts, technology and technology support.
Technology:
- CTO Samuel Westrich - quantumexplorer (making this proposal)
Core:
- Lead C++ Software Engineer
- Lead C++ Software Engineer
- Senior C++ Software Engineer
- Senior C++ Software Engineer
- C++ Software Engineer
- Lead Android Software Engineer and Principal Developer
- Sr. Android Software Engineer
- Android Software Engineer (Part time)
- Sr. iOS Software Engineer
- Sr. Go Software Engineer
- Lead Rust/JS Software Engineer
- Senior Rust Software Engineer
- Rust/JS Software Engineer
- Rust Software Engineer
- Rust Software Engineer (we are looking for a new software engineer for this position)
- Sr. Rust/JS Software Engineer
- Lead Tech Research Engineer
- Tech Research Engineer
Communication / Business Development / Marketing (no change):
- Business Development Manager (very part time (1h/week) )
- Lead Technical Content Developer
- HR Specialist
- Lead Infrastructure Engineer
- Infrastructure Engineer (new hire)
- Web Developer
- Lead SM / Project Manager
- SM / Project Manager (part time)
- Head of Product
- QA Engineer
- Lead Support Engineer
- Support Engineer
If you have any questions, please direct them to @quantumexplorer at dashcentral to ensure we are notified of your request.
Requested funding is as follows for the March through May budget cycles:
- 5,111.66 Dash for core team compensation per month ($204,466 USD @ $40.00 per Dash)
- 0.33 Dash / per month proposal reimbursement
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qwizzie 2 points,14 days ago
As i understand it, this whole 'releasing a stable version of Platform to Testnet and invite everyone from the Dash community to attack it, was planned for this month ?
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quantumexplorer (proposal owner) 1 point,14 days ago
Yep, we are very close to that right now. I would say about a week away.
Respected quantumexplorer (proposal owner)
Please tell us how are you doing at work?
At what stage is the platform and when is the final?
It would be nice to see a proper stress test actually influencing these metrics : http://metrics.testnet.networks.dash.org/grafana/public-dashboards/5b1f9fc67dee4cad94a19b3dcbe1d24d?orgId=1
wenn tools ?
22 employees
AVERAGE SALARY about 11582 USD !!!!!
DCG is a pure gold digger, thanks to the unthoughtful votes of the Masternodes!
Vote the numbers!!!!!
https://mnowatch.org/votethenumbers/
Maybe put the 100000 USD into your pocket, while keeping the 10% underpaid employees in their status? Something else maybe?
I would like you to clearly state what are you planning to do this month with the remaining 100000 USD you are asking from the budget, and also provide the necessary transparency so that everybody could verify your claim and and confirm that you are not yet another big promisses's scammer .
I also take way under market rate for my position, about 50% of what people would probably expect, mainly because I place the needs of the project first. This means that I see much more value in having more developers, vs my own pay.
And by the way, how do we know that the 25 developers are real persons and not imaginary puppets of yours? Have they ever passed any proof of personhood test?
We should force the dash developers to pass a proof of personhood test, otherwise the developers may be fake!
Vote for Encointer, stupid masternodes!!!
https://mnowatch.org/encointerUBI
Also we have 16 devs not 25. 25 is everyone.
Now, about the so called 25 employees.
Here they are, here is where they were supposed to be https://www.dash.org/dcg/
Opps, I can count 32!!! We have 25 employees, we present 32. Is this professionalism?
Among the 32, we have 14 where the ONLY contact is their dash e-mail address!!!
So how can someone confirm that they are real persons and not sockpuppets?
As of March 1st, 2024, DCG has 22 paid staff at full time/close to full time associated with the project and 3 part time contributors. In addition, we have 2 volunteers who have decided to work for no compensation and 2 people who have decided to work at minimal compensation. The amount of developers we currently have is given below.
So that's 25 paid people, and 4 people who are getting nothing or a token amount. That's 29.
If we go into https://www.dash.org/dcg/ we can see that there are 2 board members that I didn't count in our staff. Ernesto and Anton.
I admit that our website needs to be updated for the recent changes over the last month or two as Wisdom is no longer a contributor, and Leon White is only an advisor, and we had a new hire Vivek, as well as Marina no longer being at DCG but instead at Dash Growth (She was a volunteer for a small time).
I explained how you can confirm that they are real people. In fact just google them.
For the address that holds our Dash reserves we use a wallet with advanced security features so that not 1 person has full control of the wallet, this wallet is a HD wallet so change addresses are not the main address where funds are received from the proposal.
This wallet holds about 40% of our reserves and the current address for the majority of our funds is here: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/dash/address.dws?7ojtcuzQnvSqkcoQ9TmqoCMXgRKaU4qsin.htm
The rest was converted to USD and to pay people, as our USD reserves were practically empty.
Currently our reserves are roughly at about 160k USD. 55k in Dash and 105k in USD.
https://mnowatch.org/votethenumbers/
Investors are unhappy and demand a calculation of your work at $430 for 1 DASH. That is, it is fair to pay you 10 times less coins.
I think this is fair! So that the team would also be interested in the growth of the value of the coin and wait for profits for years!!!
DCG is swimming in dollars regardless of the price of the DASH, and more than 2000 top addresses are in a multi-year and multiple dollar drawdown.
Dear itsdemo, he makes justified claims to you. It is obvious that voting is a conspiracy of large masternode owners and has long been centralized.
That is, you want paper dollars in abundance, and the investors of the entire community who have been starving for 6 years are indifferent to you and are in the way.
Instead of promoting advertising, marketing and trying to increase the value of the coin, a monstrous team with an organized centralized vote ruins the project and causes hatred among investors.
You rob the budget every month, so you will choke on these coins!
Rest assured that Mr Westrich is living on borrowed time and will, in time, face certain realities.
Remember that there are many people who voice what they want for DCG. I believe most wanted DCG to be a tech focused organization. DCG is now a tech focused organization. There is enough budget for other DFOs to flourish or be born that take on the other aspects needed for our project to succeed. We need people to make those proposals though.
https://mnowatch.org/proposalowners/?po=quantumexplorer
WEN EVO?
Recently AWS started charging charging us about 500$/month for IPv4 addresses. We are looking into buying a IPv4 /24 block for the Dash Testnet to save on long term costs. This will cost about 8k USD as a one time payment, which would be slightly less than 3k spread over 3 months.
Adding everything up we get slightly less than 8k, but we also have some minor expenses such as AI services to speed up development (around 200$/month) and some yearly software licenses.
Why is DASH using AWS ? Did you try to use Hetzner ? AWS is really expensive
Where is digital signature or something else ?
Also as we have seen before when someone tried to impersonate someone else, there would be a long list of people saying in the comments here if this proposal wasn't made by the expected author.
Hades is right, DCG should sign the proposal message by using their well known dash address.
DCG behaves very very unprofessional!
Anyways, maybe once Dash Platform is released on Dash mainnet, Dash Central can start using DPNS (Dash Platform Name Service).
Whatever the ownership claim in dashcentral is, the dashcentral administrator (or the hacker that managed to get access to the dashcentral server) can impersonate anyone.
This is of course something the Dash Central administrator is well aware off.
Same thing with hackers, who to this day never managed to exploit Dash Central in that regard.
You are completely irrational!!!
The comments in Dashcentral can be deleted!
The masternodes are irrational indeed, but qwizzie is one of the kings of irrationality.
Qwizzie is a poor dolphin and holds a few voting power.
https://mnowatch.org/qwizzie/
But imagine a parallel universe where qwizzie is a whale! The situation of Dash in this parallel universe would be even worse, and a system of punishing the irrational voters would be even more necessary.
We are close to reach 10% participation!!!!
https://mnowatch.org/encointerUBI/results.html
If the proposal passes the 10% participation threshold, then I will ask the following question to the masternodes:
https://www.dash.org/forum/index.php?threads/pre-proposal-would-you-like-this-proof-of-individuality-to-be-implemented-in-dash.15946/page-6#post-235992
....in hope that rationality will prevail and they will vote YES.
Yes, I know that you are an irrational person, so I dont expect a YES from you.
Pasta is part of Core Team, together with Odysseas and UdjinM6.