129: The final scheduled fork ⏱
Jan 4-10 2021
⚠️ DEPRECATION NOTICE ⚠️
With the release of Grin v5.0.0 as part of this week’s network upgrade, HTTP/S and file-based methods will be disabled in wallets, and it will no longer be possible to send or receive Grin this way.
Transactions should use the Slatepack standard from now on.
News
Grin is forking to v5 on Friday, two years on the day following mainnet launch. Be sure to upgrade node and wallet software ahead of time. This is the last of the scheduled hard forks.
Results from the Grinnode Winter 2020 Bug Bash Challenge have been published. Thanks to all the testers, and congratulations to the winners!
The9 network (Nasdaq: NCTY) announced they aim to command 10% of Grin’s hashrate.
Dev
There are 101 open issues in /grin, and 61 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 7 in /grin | 3 in /grin-wallet | 4 contributors
Go library libgrin has been updated to add v5+ compatibility
@jaspervdm progress update
Ironbelly progress update from @i1skn
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 12 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Research
A transparent form of Mimblewimble, discussed in Bitcointalk.
“What is Grin”, explainer documentation by @phyro
Constant size fully validating node, described by @phyro
Scalability vs Privacy comparison chart by @tromp
Bitmap MMR vs Set accumulator notes by @phyro
Daily aggregator notes by @phyro
Governance
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 19 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
RFCs
Draft
Early payment proofs [wallet-dev]
Safe cancel [wallet-dev]
Payjoins support [wallet-dev]
Open
QA Team [core]
Final Comment Period
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Accepted
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Closed
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“Grin Petals“ artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.
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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