News

• Comment from the technocratic council regarding Igno’s absence. Grin’s founder needs to be away for a while for personal reasons.

• Twitter user @ArminVanBitcoin offered some thoughtful analysis regarding this week’s Libra announcement:

  A v B@ArminVanBitcoin

  Libra is the new Grin. Today we all talk about it, tomorrow no one gives a shit. #bitcoin

  June 19th 2019

  44 Retweets490 Likes

Dev 

• There are 126 open issues in /grin, and 44 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 1 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors

• v2.0.0 beta binaries were released for node and wallet.

• A hard fork practice round was conducted successfully on a private testnet.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jun 25 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

• In the last governance meeting, we covered bug bounties, @hashmap was added as contact person in our security vulnerability disclosure process, and discussed the new governance process proposal.

• On the back of that, we begun iterating on an RFC process, improvements welcomed as PRs directly to the newly created repo.

• The proposal to put later POW phaseouts on hold was tabled, and will be picked up in Tuesday’s dev meeting. Stakeholders and other interested parties are invited to participate.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 02 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Ecosystem

Any mention of a project in this section should not be seen as an endorsement. 

• @DavidBurkett, developer of Grin++, is conducting a fundraiser for a security audit.

• He also proposed GrinJoin, a transaction joining service.

• Praise in the community for the grinbox:// transaction building protocol and service.

Upcoming events

• July 16, London, UK: 4th Grin Meetup

• July 23, Seoul, KR: Grin Meetup

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