Well, I don’t see how the situation has changed. The plugin should work now (if it doesn’t, we can fix it). This proposal mentions a hypothetical usage increase if merchants use it.
I’m with @_eric , “If Namecheap uses it, the grant recipient unlocks the funds”.
However, the technical work should not depend on the marketing since it is out of the developer’s control.
As of a costing from my perspective,
- Working with BTC Payserver infrastructure (.NET + dockers) was very unfamiliar to me. I’d rather not do that again.
- CI and automated testing should be added (to avoid 1.)
- regtest should be added as a runtime flag
- orchard and ua seems to be a highly requested feature
All in all, if someone is willing to work with me on 1., I think 2-4 should be ~20k for me. They can add their costing on top of it.
PS: I’d love to see an ongoing grant for a “salesperson” who gets some kind of commission on every successful deployment of zcash + btcpayserver.