I will pledge another 100XMR so long as it can be done and released by the end of July
I want Monero to be as usable as possible for the average Chinese user before August 8th
I'll throw some funds in on this if someone steps up. I assume they'll go through the funding process on the getmonero forum?
not to be the negative nelly, but I think funds would be better spent on a full time developer. Re: cryptonote GUI - does anyone know how compatible it will be? Does anyone know what the lifespan of it will be, considering the underlying core is set to change ... a lot?
If you want to get this going on the monero forum funding system, start an idea thread. See if a developer will step up to the plate.
re: bolded- what usability do you want? if our reference is bitcoin, does the average chinese user go through the trouble of setting up a full node in order to hodl? Or do they just get a wallet on blockchain.info etc? mymonero.com = usable.
I believe smooth stated that it would be fairly straight forward to adapt the cryptonote GUI to monero (please correct me if I misunderstood or my memory is incorrect).
I'm pledging my portion of the bounty to the cryptonote qt GUI because it would be familiar to most people already in crypto.
RE: Hiring a full time developer. I don't support this, unless it's already a core team member or a heavy contributor to the XMR repository. If that is the case, then I definitely do support the idea and will contribute to that effort as well.
[1] I can recall him saying this too, however I think we must not spend too much funds on this, since funds can be better spend on other developments.
[2] Regarding the bolded part, I certainly agree. I don't like to "hire" someone with our funds who isn't even familiar with the codebase, since that will most likely be a 6 month waste of our funds (him getting familiar with the codebase).