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Covering Sep 11 - 17
News
Coindesk article about Grinās approach to mining and hard forks, almost getting the message right. Almost.
Grin discussed by Fluffypony, Charlie Lee, and the others of the Magical Crypto Friends podcast, 39m 25s into Episode 11. (via @phooton)
Grin mentioned by Tuur Demeester as an interesting project in Laura Shinās Unchained podcast, 50m 52s into the latest episode. (via @hashmap)
Dev
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled forĀ Today @ 3PM UTC inĀ grin/DevĀ on Gitter.
The simple hard fork test completed successfully at block 95,000.
The core dev team is growing! @garyyu is now official committer to the repo.
@YeastplumeāsĀ weekly progress update.
There areĀ 68 open issuesĀ in Grin.
24 pull requests were mergedĀ in the past week, with 7 unique contributors.
Governance
Next bi-weekly Governance meeting is scheduled forĀ Tuesday Sep 25 @ 3PM UTC inĀ grin/LobbyĀ on Gitter.
Mining
Working miner code for Cuckatoo Cycle, @trompās new Cuckoo variant, is now available.
@phooton announced final table for the OpenCL LEAN trimmer for Cuckatoo29, AMD cards showing some impressive performance. This triggered another epic PoW approach discussion a bit further down in the chat with @taek / David Vorick, scroll down to catch up.
Following that discussion, @tromp proposed a linear increase in the memory requirements for Cuckatoo over time. The fixed upgrade schedule would eliminate the need to identify single chip ASICs and hardfork away from them.
On the Gitter & Forum
Discussion and voting around Grin domain names and websites.
More on Miner Controlled Emissions.
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