0 sats \ 5 replies \ @earnbitcoin 6 Apr 2022 \ parent \ on: NYDIG Launches Bitcoin Task Bounties, Issues 10 Bounties Worth Over $30K Combined bitcoin
List of tasks showing Available at this moment:
makeseeds.py improvements Improve the Python tool that generates the default peer-to-peer seeds. $600.00
Add a blocks-only option to addnode Allow blocks-only network links to be specified when adding a peer from the CLI. $3,000.00
Avoid spurious BIP30 error in DB consistency checks Solve a spurious warning generated during fine-grained consensus checks. $3,750.00
Add BPF tracepoints for the mempool Add monitoring tracepoints to mempool operations to allow performant, fine-grained measurement. $4,500.00
Remove undefined behavior in net sockaddr usage Remove potential undefined behavior in networking code. $2,250.00
Prune configuration doesn't work during import Fix pruning functionality during -reindex or -loadblock, which are mechanisms that allow rebuilding chainstate without redownloading blocks. $3,750.00
Investigate and resolve reindex corruption Investigate possible corruption of chainstate data during the reindex process. $7,500.00
Add unit tests for Taproot interpreter code Add granular unittests for Taproot script interpreter code. $1,500.00
Surface "too-long-mempool-chain" in send/sendtoaddress RPC error Surface the correct mempool error when submitting a transaction through the RPC interface. $2,250.00
Verify blockfilters when reading from disk Shepherd an existing PR to merge which validates compact block filters in a more performant and comprehensive way when loading them from disk. $1,800.00
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 6 Apr 2022
I’m always curious are these bounties in line with the hourly salary of a developer. The average salary is $48 an hr. So the last bounty someone can complete it in 37.5 hours. Seems like these tasks take longer than a weeks worth or development
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 6 Apr 2022
Each bounty on the site includes an estimated time to completion. Many are quoted as only a few hours of work, some are a few days.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @earnbitcoin 6 Apr 2022
The best and most motivated talent who might accomplish this for this may not be in an area where "the average salary is $48 an hr."
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 7 Apr 2022
Yea that’s what I mean if you want a bounty put real capital behind it! NYDig putting out crumbs that anyone with real skills won’t tackle
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @earnbitcoin 7 Apr 2022
anyone with real skills won’t tackle
I am of the opinion that these bounties offered, globally, will result in sufficient talent to be found, and successful completion of the work, at the amounts offered.
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