the monero-gui just uses monero-wallet-rpc as its backend, right?

Not exactly. Wallet2 api (no wallet-rpc is ever started)

ah ok. but it doesn't involve monerod.

trying to help preland with that bounty... i see you on the thread too :)

gingeropolous the original PR for adding i2p here, i2pzero is used which requires java so alot more moving parts, i2pd should be a drop in replacement monero-project/monero-gui #2418/files dsc the only reason he stopped was because users would have to wait for several minutes for i2p to connect, but if they want to use it,

that seems fine, maybe dsc would pick it up again now with i2pd? with the SAM stuff as an optional feature later.

monerod-gui can manage a local moenrod though - starts/stops/restarts it . the p2pool integration will restart monerod if the required flags are not in use

well dsc better hop on it quick before that bounty is achieved