News

• grincon1 slides and videos have now been published - if you weren’t able to make it to the event, be sure to check out the talks!

• Wired covered the limitations of privacy in privacy coins. Well written, researched, and balanced.

• Similarly, @joltz, creator of the /grin-security repo and a security contact, shared some thoughts about privacy in the context of grin and other cryptocurrencies. Must read.

• @DavidBurkett announced the first GrinJoin transaction: 9 different transactions were sent via TOR to a GrinJoin server, and were joined together before being seen by the p2p network. Further work is required to make this an untrusted setup, but is a nice demo of the type of obfuscation of the transaction graph that's possible to do on the second layer of Grin.

• The Grin page on Bitcointalk has gotten a revamp, courtesy of a grin community member.

Dev

• There are 109 open issues in /grin, and 35 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 12 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 7 unique contributors

• v3.0.0 network upgrade, Jan 15 2020:

  • Planning issue with milestones

  • Upgrade timelines and more info

• Shout out to @antiochp who has been working together with @hashmap and @DavidBurkett for quite some while to figure out some weird syncing issues we’ve been seeing, and the actual bug caught well… is a bit mind-blowing.

• In last week's developer meeting: Review of 3.0.0 status, upgrade communications to ecosystem, a /packaging repo is being created, Node API v2, and an extensive discussion about the future focus of Grin (also a must read).

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Dec 10 @ 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 Dec 03 @ 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

-

Final Comment Period

• Node API v2 [node-dev]

• Enable faster sync [node-dev]

• Improved Wallet State Management [wallet-dev]

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

Accepted

• Payment Proofs [wallet-dev]

Closed

-

Events

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

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

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/75-first-grinjoin-tx-

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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grincon1: thank you to those of you who made it out to the annual Grin Developer Conference last week! Slides and videos to be posted. Unedited recording available on the grincon website in the meanwhile.

A big thank you to the official grincon1 conference sponsor QTUM,
as well as to SparkPool for their additional support.

News

• The Block asked us some questions with regards to last week’s claims and counter-claims regarding Mimblewimble. Here is the full response, well worth a read.

• Out of all the news articles that resulted from last week’s back and forth, perhaps the CoinTelegraph story won the prize in the “weirdest headline” and “actually made an attempt to research the story” categories.

Dev

• There are 105 open issues in /grin, and 34 open issues in /grin-wallet.

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

• v3.0.0 network upgrade, Jan 15 2020:

  • Planning issue with milestones

  • Upgrade timelines and more info

• Details of the new GPU-friendly PoW Cuckaroom that was announced at Grincon1 by @tromp.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Nov 26 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Last week’s governance meeting covered forum migration, Open research problems, and Roadmap RFC.

• Spending and income logs are in the process of being updated.

• Open Research Problems now moved to its own section on the website.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Dec 03 @ 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

• Improved Wallet State Management [wallet-dev]

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

Final Comment Period

• Payment Proofs [wallet-dev]

• Node API v2 [node-dev]

• Enable faster sync [node-dev]

Accepted

-

Closed

-

Events

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

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

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/74-new-proof-of-work-bird-revealed

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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…and you won’t believe what @yeastplume did next!

grincon1: Annual Grin Developer Conference. Packed schedule of speakers on Grin and Mimblewimble topics. THIS FRIDAY. c-base. Berlin. Sign up for free.

Proudly supported by SparkPool.

News

• In today’s sensationalist news, a claim was made that Mimblewimble had been “broken”, in what can only be described as a broken research attempt. This triggered a response by various grin contributors pointing to the factual inaccuracies of that exercise.

• Hydax exchange started trading Grin, and pledged to donate the first year’s of fee’s to Grin’s development fund.

Dev

• There are 102 open issues in /grin, and 34 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 10 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 8 unique contributors

• Last week’s developer meeting reviewed 3.0.0 status and firmed up the upgrade timelines.

• v3.0.0 network upgrade, Jan 15 2020:

  • Planning issue with milestones

  • Upgrade timelines and more info

• The first c32 block was found on floonet, by grincon1 speaker Wilke Trei / @lolliedieb.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Dec 03 @ 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 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]

Open

• Improved Wallet State Management [wallet-dev]

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

Final Comment Period

• Payment Proofs [wallet-dev]

• Node API v2 [node-dev]

• Enable faster sync [node-dev]

Accepted

-

Closed

-

Events

• Nov 22 2019, Berlin, DE: grincon1

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

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

URL to share this article: https://grinnews.substack.com/p/73-the-6-errors-of-the-broken-mw

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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grincon1: Annual Grin Developer Conference. Packed schedule of speakers on Grin and Mimblewimble topics. November 22. c-base. Berlin. Sign up for free.

Proudly supported by SparkPool.

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

-

Accepted

-

Closed

-

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

-

Accepted

-

Closed

-

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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