Peak hype yet? Hard to say, all one can do is just try to catch them waves. 🌊🏄‍♀️
”When mainnet?” you ask? Well, https://itsalmo.st/grin-oclock. No matter where things go from here I feel privileged to have been able to contribute with the little I’ve could to the project, see it get to this stage, and learn a lot in the process. ”Is a launch ever really finished?”, I wondered in a group chat earlier today. I hope not. It’s been incredibly fun so far, and I wish it continues. Hats off to all the committers and contributors. Fingers crossed for a healthy Grin genesis tomorrow.
- Daniel

News

• Arjun Balaji did a Mimblewimble and mining deep dive for the Block.

• CryptoProfG explains Grin monetary approach in one of the better readings on the subject I’ve seen so far.

• “Cool tech, maybe not enough hype?”

  NiceHash@NiceHashMiningWhat is your opinion on @grinMW ? 🤔

  January 9 2019

  2 Retweets27 Likes

Dev

• There are 131 open issues in the Grin repo. 

• 29 pull requests were merged in the past week, by 15 unique contributors.

• @hashmap delivered OpenCL Cuckaroo29 plugin as promised.

• @photon managed to achieve 50-80% speedups on AMD GPUs and contributed it back to the community for use in default grin-miner. Like a boss. 🥇

• Getting started documentation got a massive facelift, courtesy of @yeastplume.

• @yeastplume also penned the definitive wallet user guide.

• And not only that, he also made several critical improvements to the wallet.

• Support your core developer. Funding campaign for @yeastplume Mar-Aug 2019. Many mining? Much dev donations. Very wow. 👍

• Latest dev meeting started planning for Grin v1.1.0.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Jan 22 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• New website redesign proposed by @nijynot.

• NOTE DAY CHANGE: The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Thursday Jan 17 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Mining

• How to mine Grin video.

• @tromp on pricing coins per second.

Projects

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

• Ironbelly, an open source wallet for iOS and Android, was announced by Cycle42.

• Grinmint mining pool announced details for their production launch.

• Mwgrinpool delayed their launch and restricted access to invite-only.

• Veil launches on Jan 15 as well and will support markets that track Grin’s price, hash rate, and important network events.

• @DavidBurkett working on the C++ implementation has been funded, but will not have wallet ready for mainnet.

• Grin-pool.org was announced, by @hendi: “Zero fees for me, but an optional fee for the Grin Dev fund later.”

• f2pool announced support for Grin.

• Sparkpool mining pool announced support for Grin.

• Bisq exchange introduced Grin support.

• Galleon exchange announced, donating up to 50% of Grin trading fees to the dev fund.

• Chainrift.com intends to list Grin soon after launch.

• BTC.com mining pool will support Grin for launch.

• smOS introduced support for Grin mining.

Telegram chat groups

• GrinHub

• GrinCoinRussian

• GrinItalia (Pun intended?)

• GrinMining

• GrinFans

• GrinShilling

• GrinPool

Upcoming events

• Jan 19, Beijing, China: Grin meetup.

• Jan 28, San Mateo, CA: Grincon(0)<US>. All proceeds go to Grin development fund.

• Jan 29, San Francisco, CA: Bay Area Meetup

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News

• Tibor Fisher of The Guardian mentioning Grin in a piece about the 10th anniversary of Bitcoin, calling it “…the best name for a currency in the history of money”.

• Grin made the front page of Hacker News on Jan 3rd.

• Mentioned on #15 of Arjun Balaji’s noteworthy Crypto Theses for 2019 post.

• Included in @lopp 2018 stats on commits & contributors.

• Some valuation commentary:

  Su Zhu@zhusuTo support a $500mill mcap on Grin in 6 months, the market would need to absorb $2.7mill/day in Grin issuance/inflation (higher than ETH, and more than 50% of BTC issuance). What's the idea behind trying to hypermonetize something that was designed to avoid hypermonetization?

  January 4 2019

  8 Retweets86 Likes

Dev

• There are 120 open issues in the Grin repo. 

• 26 pull requests were merged in the past week, by 13 unique contributors.

• Lots of activity from @yeastplume in preparation for mainnet, details in his weekly update.

• YEASTPLUME FUNDING CAMPAIGN OPEN for Mar-Aug 2019. If you’re looking to mine Grin, funding protocol development is one of the better ways to protect your investment. Please consider donating.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Jan 8 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Notes from last Governance meeting. No genesis block message. Non-binding polls for mission statement, currency ticker, and symbol is conducted on the forum and decisions will be made in next meeting.

• Some of Bisq’s experiences with governance.

• NOTE DAY CHANGE: The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Thursday Jan 17 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Mining

• OpenCL Lean miner plugin for Cuckatoo31 (ASIC Targeted POW) merged by @hashmap. ASIC Resistant Cuckaroo is up next.

• GPU memory reductions discovered that have led to lower GPU minimum requirements. New known minimums are 5.5 GB for Cuckaroo and 11 GB for Cuckatoo. @tromp has built miner plugins that supports these, now merged in grin-miner.

• @tromp on the best GPU for mining grin.

• @tromp on the best way to decide whether to mine Cuckaroo or Cuckatoo.

• grin-miner binaries are up, courtesy of @yeastplume.

Projects

• GrinPro Miner: High performance and professional miner to manage and monitor mining of Grin.

Upcoming events

• Jan 8, London, UK: Grin London Meetup. @yeastplume confirmed to join.

• Jan 28, San Mateo, CA: Grincon(0)<US>. All proceeds go to Grin development fund.

Animation provided by the artist Sebastian Mazzucchielli, inspired by the Cuckoo Cycle edge trimming process, facilitated by a member of the Grin community.
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Last edition of 2018! A warm welcome to all the new subscribers, and thanks to the older subscribers for sticking around. Here’s to a 2019 filled with Mainnet Grins! 🥂
- Daniel

News

• @hashmap participated on a panel organized by Binance Labs during 35C3.

  Web3 Foundation@web3foundationCryptography and Privacy researchers discussing how blockchain can help users maintain their anonymity at @bianancelabs #35c3 event.

  December 29 2018

  9 Retweets23 Likes

• There’s finally an announcement of Grin on Bitcointalk. What would a launch be without it?

• Grin mentioned in article on 2019 trends at (BCH-affiliated?) Bitcoin.com.

Dev

• There are 131 open issues in Grin. 

• 28 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 9 unique contributors.

• Floonet testnet was re-released as Grin v0.5.0 to mirror Mainnet much closer and add a bunch of nice-to-have features and fixes.

• Grin’s first security audit, covering the patches and additions on top of libsecp was concluded by JP Aumasson. Nothing too serious identified, but improvements are being actioned. Thanks to JP, and the benefactor who facilitated and financed this effort.

• Help out by hosting a DNS seed for Mainnet rollout.

• More updates in the full notes from the Development meeting. In addition to the above points, adoption of Semver was agreed, and there was a discussion on how best to handle planning of upcoming features.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jan 8 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Community effort to provide FAQ documentation to exchanges has been kicked off.

• NOTE DAY CHANGE: The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Thursday Jan 3 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Upcoming events

• Jan 8, London, UK: Grin London Meetup. Submit projects you want to demo.

• Jan 28, San Mateo, CA: Grincon(0)<US>. All proceeds go to Grin development fund.

Grin at 35C3 in Leipzig (photo: @hashmap)

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News

• We saw the official announcement of Layer1, an “activist fund for cryptocurrencies” that is backed by Peter Thiel. Grin is their first investment. TechCrunch reported on the story further.

• The activist of the week however might just be Aurel, the patron saint of Grin, who once again stepped up and closed the security fund raising with a large donation. Like a boss. 🙏

Dev

• There are 125 open issues in Grin. 

• 22 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 8 unique contributors.

• Floonet, permanent betanet, was released successfully, replacing Testnet4. There are some thoughts about doing another dry run release of the network within the week as there were a couple of bugs uncovered during the release process. So might not end up being permanent yet. The name though, is.

• Grin++, the Grin implementation in C++ for Windows, was open sourced by @DavidBurkett. Contributions are welcomed.

• Yeastplume wrote a Holiday Season retrospective that made my eyes moist and heart warm.

• NOTE DAY CHANGE: Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Thursday Dec 27 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Notes from the last governance meeting are up. Audit #2 was postponed into the new year, and the genesis process was discussed.

• Grin-pm repo received a bit of a face lift, the curious historians amongst us can now dig in the past notes and review old cliff notes.

• NOTE DAY CHANGE: The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Thursday Jan 3 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Mining

• “Y u no mergemine, Grin?” This reddit thread spells out the answer.

• Good news for those with low memory GPUs. Turns out you might be able to mine Grin, after all. Assuming someone builds a miner with the outlined optimisations.

Projects

• 🙋‍♀️ Blog post from yours truly: An update on what we’ve been up to with vault713. Invoicing, transaction batching, cold storage, and more.

Upcoming events

• Jan 8, London, UK: Grin London Meetup. Submit projects you want to demo.

• Jan 28, San Mateo, CA: Grincon(0)<US>. New website is up, and 50% of tickets are already sold. All proceeds go to Grin development fund.

Memes

Tobia De Angelis ⚡👾@tobdealol

December 19 2018

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News

• ByteSize Capital read our expectation of ~1M GPUs for the Genesis block as an “estimate” and called Grin either the “most obvious” or “most crowded” trade of 2019. Or both perhaps? Glad someone is reading the meeting notes at least. 🕵️‍♂️

• Coindesk reveals that Amir Taaki, creator of libbitcoin and DarkWallet, has built a wallet that supports “Mimblewimble”.

• @askepios discovered an Augur prediction market on whether Grin’s market cap would exceed $500m within the next 6 months. @tromp offers convincing analysis on why this would be unlikely in-thread.

• @jaspervdm interviewed by BitcoinWednesday.

• Zooko tweets in support of donations to Grin’s security audit.

• RIP Tim May, author of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto and Cyphernomicon. Relevant HackerNews discussion.

Dev

• There are 119 open issues in Grin. 

• 29 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 8 unique contributors.

• Notes from the last developer meeting. ‘Floonet’, what is intended to be the permanent betanet, is launching in the next couple of days. It’s essentially a dry run of mainnet launch, practicing the genesis block release process.

• Bitcoin StackExchange discussion on tradeoffs between privacy and implementation complexity of Dandelion.

• Daira raising security concerns with Dual PoW approach on the Zcash forums.

• Progress being made on Switch Commitments.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Dec 25 @ 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 Tomorrow Tuesday Dec 18 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

• We’ll be discussing possible Mission statements. Come and join the fun

Community

• More emission rate debate on the forum.

• @bladedoyle published how-to’s for CPU and also GPU mining on MWGrinPool.

Research

• Dan Boneh, Benedikt Bünz & co dropped yet another bombshell paper, this time on Universal Accumulators. Discussion ensued trying to make sense of it and the potential implications.

Upcoming events

• Jan 8, London, UK: Grin London Meetup  

• Jan 28, San Mateo, CA: Grincon(0)<US>. Registrations are open. Get your tickets early so you don’t miss out.

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