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News

• A massive thanks to the anonymous donor who donated another Bitcoin Coinbase reward from 2010 to Grin's General Fund. The core team is grateful for your show of support and will work to use the funds wisely.

Dev

• There are 103 open issues in /grin, and 32 open issues in /grin-wallet.

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

• Yeastplume’s weekly update. 

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Nov 12 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• In the last governance meeting website onboarding improvements, assignment of RFC shepherds, and a review of open research problems were covered.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Nov 19 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

• [NEW!] Payment Proofs [wallet-dev]

Open

• Improved Wallet State Management [wallet-dev]

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

• Node API v2 [node-dev]

• Enable faster sync [node-dev]

Final Comment Period

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Accepted

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Closed

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Events

• Nov 22 2019, Berlin, DE: grincon1

• Dec 07 2019, Fort Lauderdale, FL: Grin USA meetup

“Grin Cell” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/72-a-sign-of-support-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Gitter.

Donations are kindly accepted via wallet713: 
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News

• Speaker schedule for grincon1 was announced, packed to the max with speakers on a wide range of topics.

  • Grincon1: Annual Grin Developer Conference. November 22, Berlin.
    Sign up for free and see you there!

• Last chance to participate in Grin’s 2020 roadmap planning process - share your ideas before Nov 10.

• The last Grin Talk episode featured Charlie Lee of Litecoin.

• Charlie also announced that the Litecoin foundation will be supporting the ongoing development of Grin++ and that @DavidBurkett will be leading the effort of getting MW extension blocks integrated into Litecoin.

Dev

• There are 103 open issues in /grin, and 32 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 7 in /grin | 1 in /grin-wallet | 5 unique contributors

• Support for Homebrew thanks to @quentinlesceller. Node and wallet can now be installed on the Mac by running brew install grin grin-wallet.

• Scope for Grin v3.0.0 was frozen. 🥶

• In the last development meeting v3.0.0 was scoped and a v2.1.1 patch of the node agreed.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Nov 12 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Nov 05 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

• [NEW!] Wallet Update Process Enhancements [wallet-dev]

Open

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

• Node API v2 [node-dev]

• [NEW!] Enable faster sync [node-dev]

Final Comment Period

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Accepted

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Closed

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Events

• Nov 22 2019, Berlin, DE: grincon1

• Dec 07 2019, Fort Lauderdale, FL: Grin USA meetup

“Snail Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/71-grincon1-speaker-schedule-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Gitter.

Donations are kindly accepted via wallet713: 
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News

• Take part in Grin’s 2020 roadmap planning process - publish your ideas before Nov 10.

• Last few days! Submit a talk proposal before Oct 30 to speak at this year’s grin developer conference grincon1 in Berlin.

• Registration for grincon1 is now open (and free of charge) - get your seat while there is still room.

• Grin South Florida meetup event announced for December 7 in Fort Lauderdale.

• New Grin Talk episode with Diego Salazar from the Monero community.

• A new grin-only webshop for mainland China...

• …powered by a soon to be open sourced Grin payment processor by the developer behind Niffler.

Dev

• There are 104 open issues in /grin, and 30 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 2 in /grin | 0 in /grin-wallet | 1 unique contributors

• Grin v2.1.0 node and wallet was released.

• Grin v3.0.0 release planning: Last chance to submit scope proposals.

• Yeastplume weekly status update.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Oct 29 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Help define open research problems for Grin, to solicit help from researchers and academic institutions.

• In the last governance meeting roadmap planning, website updates, and open research problems for Grin was covered.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Nov 05 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

• Node API v2 [node-dev]

Final Comment Period

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Accepted

-

Closed

-

Events

• Nov 22 2019, Berlin, DE: grincon1

• Dec 07 2019, Fort Lauderdale, FL: Grin USA meetup

“Grin Park” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/70-grin-2020-planning-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Gitter.

Donations are kindly accepted via wallet713: 
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News

• Be a speaker at this year’s grin developer conference grincon1 in Berlin. Submit a talk proposal before Oct 30.

• Results from Grin’s second security audit have been published. Props to Coinspect and the grin developers for their work during this period, and a big thanks to all the grin donors who made this audit possible in the first place.

• Grin turned 3 years over the weekend. Happy birthday Grin, hope you are a proud parent, Ignotus. 🎈

• @kargakis giving a View on Grin at HCPP19 in Prague.

• @lolliedieb interviewed on Grin Talk.

• For all the Swedish speaking readers, I appeared on the Konsensuspodden podcast to talk about Grin.

• Grin was mentioned in a Forbes article by the CEO of one of the top three Bitcoin mining pools.

• You can now buy Grin sneakers.

Dev

• There are 103 open issues in /grin, and 30 open issues in /grin-wallet.

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

• Following grin-wallet beta5 all issues are resolved. Release of Grin v2.1.0 for node and wallet is now imminent - likely within a few days of this update being written.

• Grin v3.0.0 release planning issue.

• Transaction building over TOR Hidden Services merged. Improves privacy during the tx building process, generates a receiving address, and resolves port forwarding / NAT traversal requirements.

• In the last development meeting, Security audit publication date, 2.1.0 release, 3.0.0 planning, and release packaging was discussed.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Oct 29 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Oct 22 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

• Node API v2 [node-dev]

Final Comment Period

-

Accepted

-

Closed

-

Events

• Nov 22 2019, Berlin, DE: grincon1

“Fruit Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/69-call-for-grincon1-speakers-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Gitter.

Donations are kindly accepted via wallet713: 
grinbox://gVwcktstZH4w2gfmZwCYkz2n9NdTG8vXxdbsJCTy5JaoeZXtVv18

News

• The grin website was permanently migrated to https://grin.mw (courtesy of @0xb100d) and with this also a new design (courtesy of @nijynot).

• Innosilicon recently announced delays to their planned G32 ASICs. The first batch is now expected in January 2020.

• Chronos walkthrough of withdrawing Grin from exchanges using Niffler’s hedwig relay.

Dev

• There are 103 open issues in /grin, and 32 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 7 in /grin | 3 in /grin-wallet | 5 unique contributors

• grin-wallet v2.1.0-beta4 was released.

• The official v2.1.0 release of node and wallet is due this week.

• Grin’s security process was revamped.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• There’s been good progress on adding TOR support to the wallet.

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

Governance

• The last governance meeting approved my funding request, the transfer to grin.mw, and the new website design.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Oct 22 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• Relative kernels [node-dev]

• Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]

• Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]

Open

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

• Node API v2 [node-dev]

Final Comment Period

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Accepted

-

Closed

-

Events

• Nov 22 2019, Berlin, DE: grincon1 at c-base space station

“Cute Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/68-grinmw-

This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Gitter.

Donations are kindly accepted via wallet713: 
grinbox://gVwcktstZH4w2gfmZwCYkz2n9NdTG8vXxdbsJCTy5JaoeZXtVv18