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News

• The hard fork that will see the Grin network upgrade to v2.0.0 is happening at time T minus two days or so. Here’s a handy countdown timer provided by the folks at CoinGecko. Version 2 will put transaction incompatibility behind us (permanently hopefully), and will see a a lot of fixes and improvements, and provide a more stable ground for future upgrades. If you’ve not yet upgraded your node or wallet to v2.0.0, do so ASAP.

• Tomorrow Tuesday there’s the 4th Grin Meetup in London. @yeastplume, @jaspervdm, and yours truly will be there alongside some of the other 86 grinners who are planning to attend, come join us! 🙋‍♀️

• @nijynot has been working on a redesign of the grin website and a new visual language for Grin. 👩‍🎨

• And if a scheduled hard fork isn’t enough action for you, there’s also been yet another Grin fork / Grin clone announced! Technically "Epic Cash" was announced, not that it's actually a fork of the grin codebase. ツ

Dev

• There are 113 open issues in /grin, and 29 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 5 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 6 unique contributors

• Last week's development meeting covered the creation of the wallet and node sub teams, an update on the work following our security audit work from @jo1tz, and planning for Grin v2.0.1 and v2.1.0.

• @antiochp simplified handling of the txhashset zip.

• @hashmap had a CPU performance improvement merged that uses blocking IO.

• @yeastplume is working on a wallet rework/refactoring and RFC. Read more in his weekly update.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jul 23 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• The wallet development sub team has been discussing how to self-organise, you can join the discussion in the Keybase team.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 16 @ 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. 

• For those using Grin Gold Miner, there's been some hard fork information announced.

• Vite wallet is also ready for 2.0.0.

• The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for Tue Aug 13 @ 17:00 UTC in grin/Ecosystem on Gitter.

Upcoming events

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

• July 23, Seoul, KR: Grin Meetup

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News

• The GRINOIRE is almost ready, a 1200+ page cypherpunk anthology coffee-table book printed on gold embossed bible paper (?!), sold exclusively at TMGOX. Roughly 20 copies left, get your collectible and support Grin development. ツ

Governance

• In the last governance meeting we decided to move forward trialing the RFC and sub team proposals until the next meeting. We also discussed security audits and disclosure contact persons, and @j01tz was added as a point of contact.

• The last iteration of the RFC process can be found here.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 16 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Dev

• There are 112 open issues in /grin, and 27 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 5 in /grin | 1 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors

• The wallet development sub team was announced by @yeastplume, join the bootstrapping process on Keybase.

• The node development sub team was announced by @antiochp, join the bootstrapping process on Keybase.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jul 9 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev 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. 

• Wallet developers have been busy preparing releases that are compatible with the 2.0.0 hard fork:

  • Niffler

  • Grin++

  • wallet713

• The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for Tue Aug 13 @ 17:00 UTC in grin/Ecosystem on Gitter.

Upcoming events

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

• July 23, Seoul, KR: Grin Meetup

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Coinbase CEO Bryan Armstrong tweeted a video with a grin sticker in it, leading to lots of speculation about a possible future listing. To me it just looks like someone has great taste in laptop stickers, that’s all. ツ

News

• Grin 2.0.0 has just been released. Upgrade node and wallet binaries ASAP, these are the only versions that will be working after the mid-July hard fork. ☝️

• Edward Snowden briefly mentioned Grin in the context of privacy at a Bitcoin conference. (~26 min in).

• Bitcoin.com made Ignotus / Satoshi comparisons. In other news: Satoshi starts with an S and ends with an I. Ignotus… rhymes with grinluminati. 👁

Dev

• There are 130 open issues in /grin, and 23 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 10 in /grin | 4 in /grin-wallet | 6 unique contributors

• Last week's dev meeting decided in favour @tromp’s proposal to halt proof-of-work phaseouts and to define an 18 month moratorium on changes to the ASIC targeted proof of work.

• WIP pull request by @chisa0a to add initial I2P support, see the Grin over I2P user guide for instructions.

• @yeastplume commented on the recent transaction building difficulties we've seen as part of the upgrade to 1.1.0.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jul 9 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

• There's been a lot of activity in the RFC repo where we try to hash out the details of how RFCs and sub-teams will work. Feel free to participate:

  • Update RFC process

  • Update Governance RFC

• 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. 

• The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 02 @ 17:00 UTC in grin/Ecosystem on Gitter.

Upcoming events

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

• July 23, Seoul, KR: Grin Meetup

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/55-grin-20-

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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

This edition’s photo by Ruan Carlos on Unsplash.

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Governance

• The big news from last week is that a proposal was made to iterate on Grin’s governance model. A wide-ranging proposal, it proposes an RFC process and new sub-teams. To be discussed on Tuesday’s Governance meeting. Give it a read and feel free to participate in the conversation tomorrow.

• Tomorrow’s Governance meeting will also discuss putting later POW phaseouts on hold, which will have a big impact on ASIC manufacturing. Stakeholders and other interested parties are invited to participate.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue Jun 18 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

News

• Binance Labs interviewed @hashmap about Grin payment processor Knockturn Allee.

• Coingecko created a countdown timer for the scheduled hard fork to upgrade the network to Grin v2.0.0.

Dev 

• There are 120 open issues in /grin, and 42 open issues in /grin-wallet.

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

• With less than 30 days left for the scheduled hard fork, v2.0.0 milestones for node and wallet are almost complete. Beta binaries are due to be released and we are on track to run a private testnet this week.

• The last dev meeting covered v1.1.0 evaluation, v2.0.0 planning, and project branching model.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• New bulletproof rewind scheme by @jaspervdm merged.

• Proof of work change by @tromp introducing Cuckarood for the hard fork merged.

• 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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Research

• Revelio, a new privacy-preserving proof of reserves protocol for Grin exchanges. 

Upcoming events

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

• July 23, Seoul, KR: Grin Meetup

This edition’s photo by Aditya Joshi on Unsplash.

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

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