328 GRC bounty: notify users in Gridcoin wallet about important issues (new mandatory version, ...)

We've an open issue in the bugtracker since 13 months (August 2016) :-(

This is a feature we need with each update/upgrade for Gridcoin:  

• currently we do this - manually - over the existing communication media, but:  
  • this is slow
  • may not reach everyone

Current discussed approaches are:  

1. monitoring a burn address
2. making an "alert"
3. in case none of the mentioned/coming ideas work:

• think about an option that is "unsafe" but works (e.g. activate in  options, but tells clearly: "some of your data may leak for this feature  to work correctly" or so) :-(

If you would like to sponsor this issue, please send your GRCs to address (this resides in my wallet):  

• SF5s9HZBYc3fTPLRsVQtETfGktz6gR4mjK

As public sponsor your name will be listed in all related announcements:  

• e.g. you could also come to IRC  and tell me in private beforehand  how much you will donate, it might be hard to get your details  otherwise. My IRC nick is: Erkan_Yilmaz
• You can of course also donate anonymously.

Current sponsors:

• 150 GRC (by @personthingman2)
• 100 GRC anonymous donation
• 78.04 GRC (by @tomasbrod)

The bounty will be paid out to that person that:  

1. sends a merge request to the offical repo that works AND
2. is implemented in Gridcoin also:

• about 2.: e.g. option3 ("unsafe impl.") above might not be accepted?  
  • needs discussion: security of network vs. security of individual  (personally, "security of individual" is more important to me: I added  option3 only so we can "move forward" with the issue. Also, I link to  the fork warning which seems so far to prevent the issue going forward?)
  • if option3 would be selected: after discussion also needs voting on  community? but if it is per default off AND gives user clear info about  consequences when enabling: then probably not...

More bounties for Gridcoin can be found here.

Originally posted here.

Erkan (find me on IRC and twitter)