15:14:26 <m-relay> <r​ucknium:monero.social> Here is a draft of "Required possession duration of malicious hashpower for successful double-spend attack with a _z_ stopping rule." https://gist.github.com/Rucknium/37d772f7232aef3989bfd5b9c6d99596
15:14:39 <m-relay> <r​ucknium:monero.social> Direct link to table: https://gist.github.com/Rucknium/37d772f7232aef3989bfd5b9c6d99596#table-duration-of-meta-attack-to-achieve-attack-success-probability-of-50-percent
16:30:41 <m-relay> <j​effro256:monero.social> Diego Salazar: If possible, would you please be able to provide a estimate of the man-hours of work required, given that quote amount?
16:37:36 <m-relay> <d​iego:cypherstack.com> Sure. Although I was going to get back to you guys today that that was a bit of an overestimate (after further discussion this past weekend with my cryptographers). Price would be closer to 125 XMR.  Estimate somewhere around 120 man-hours. To deliver in a timely fashion some of those would need to be overtime hours. We've got quite the workload at the moment. Price can probably f<clipped message>
16:37:37 <m-relay> <d​iego:cypherstack.com> urther reduce if you're fine with a 2-3 month delivery time frame.
16:38:45 <m-relay> <d​iego:cypherstack.com> FYI, Cypher Stack is training up two interns (both with mathematics masters degrees, one with almost a PhD). Putting them through the Monero research gauntlet and more.
16:38:53 <m-relay> <d​iego:cypherstack.com> So hopefully these time bottlenecks will reduce soon.
16:39:17 <m-relay> <d​iego:cypherstack.com> Also looking for one more potential intern if you guys know of anyone to recommend. The goal is to get new blood into the privacy research game.
16:41:32 <m-relay> <j​ivanyan:firo.org> How much you pay to interns?
16:43:17 <m-relay> <d​iego:cypherstack.com> Message me for specifics.
16:51:32 <m-relay> <j​effro256:monero.social> Diego Salazar: Thanks so much for the update
16:52:30 <m-relay> <d​iego:cypherstack.com> You're welcome. Let me know what you all decide.