A question about the funding...
Will MaNI only be working the extra hours when the day countdown is finished or when the funding reaches progress points?
From my understanding of the comments he has other contract work to finish and wouldn't be able to start doing the extra hours even if all 50 btc was given tomorrow?
The answer lies somewhere in the middle - if it were to fund immediately I would be able to work quite a lot of the extra hours immediately while it would take some time (a month or two) to gradually ramp up to 100% of the full hours from the funding.
Likewise if the funding takes the full time allocation to fund I probably would not start immediately on the full hours either but would transition to them.
At the same time as we are already heading to the 7h/w mark - I will already start trying to transition towards that (I won't wait until the end of the funding to do so)
So in short - the world will not end if we don't complete the funding today, any funds paid are already seeing benefit for the project. However at the same time if you are planning to buy, sooner is always better, if we did suddenly get the full funding today or a large boost in the funding today it would be a good thing for the project and ultimately would lead me to working more hours sooner.
Hope that answers the question.
MaNI can you make a $ total for your work? This will make life less volatile for the funding.My guess is funding will dry up completely with bitcoin at these prices.