110: ASIC AMA 🗣

Aug 03-09 2020

tl;dr

• ASIC AMA tomorrow in the governance meeting

• Pics and stats from a G1 ASIC miner on the forum

• New transaction building RFC

News

• There will be an ASIC AMA with Thomas Hu from Vidtoo & Microcomputer, and Kevin Shao at Bitrise Capital in tomorrow’s governance meeting. Those interested should attend or post questions in advance.

• @garyyu posted pictures and info about from a borrowed G1 ASIC miner.

Dev

• There are 90 open issues in /grin, and 43 open issues in /grin-wallet.

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

• In the last dev meeting there was some v5.0.0 planning, and discussion of BP+, NRD kernels, expiring kernels, and the proposal to eliminate the finalize step in transaction building…

• …which continued to be discussed at length in the forum. @DavidBurkett is turning the latest of these ideas into an RFC that simplifies the transaction building with an invoice workflow that’s sender and amount agnostic and support payment proofs.

• The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Aug 18 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• @paouky’s weekly progress update.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Aug 11 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• NEW! - Eliminating finalize step [wallet-dev]

• Parallel IBD [node-dev]

Open

• QA Team [core]

• Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [wallet-dev]

Final Comment Period

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Accepted

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Closed

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