What are the updates on the code rebase? Is there a rough timeline that we can follow? I reckon the people working on it do not have the experience in Cryptonote related projects, how can smooth make sure that they can really do it?
Everyone is welcome to try. If they don't produce anything of value then nothing is lost.
I'm a little disappointed with the lack of visible progress. If there isn't any soon I will start pushing some of my own work to the rebase repo. If that means I end up entitled to the bounty (which as mentioned earlier may be divided among usefully contributing efforts) it will go back into the donation fund.