147: New Markets, New Bounties, and Joining The Fediverse🖖
147: New Markets, New Bounties, and Joining The Fediverse🖖
News
Grin trading on Bisq is now live with the recent Bisq update to 1.8.0. With special thanks going out to those that made this possible- from the inflow of community support, to the Grin developers who engineered the tools for exchange confidence
A Grin inflation bug bounty is reaching final approval for the security professional looking to do some fuzzing. More details and how to claim posted on the forum
From the grinnode.live team that brought you the Winter 2020 Bug Bash Challenge, and the Grin Node Live Challenge, comes a new bounty posted requesting a tutorial of the new grin-wallet CLI api functionality. Also interesting is their development of the raspberry pi grin node
Welcome to the Grin Social Fediverse. Thanks to grindoggo, creator of the lovely Grin Markets, Grinners may now join the Pleroma network through doggos own self-hosted MW.social instance. Based on the values of community and sharing culture, this decentralized network operates similar to twitter but without the authoritarian control or invasion of privacy
As the push for Grins very own stackexchange QA resource moves on MarekRenzokuken continues to rally the community. A resource for solving problems and sharing the solutions in a scalable way, this QA resource would save considerable resources when addressing technical questions
Jimmyispromo is back again, now entering veteran mining territory after 60 days of securing the Grin network and still going strong Jimmy is sharing his journey with the world
A new highly informative website highlighting the fair distribution of Grin economic policy emerges. Including graphs and charts for the visual learner, this source of enlightenment is a complete economic overview to provide in assistance to new and old friends of Grin alike.
The Grin machine clicks thanks to Cobragrin and another edition of the highly entertaining GrinPost, keeping the community current with the happenings around Grin while sharing the memes and culture that we love
Development
CoinSwap development with Scilio continues to progress
MarkHollis continues development for safe storage Grin on ledger hardware wallet
MarekRenzokuken with the Grinventions Laboratory is exploring a Grin-PHP protocol with a Grin roadmap leading to convenient online point of sales
Merged PRs: 5 in/grin | 4 in/grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors
Research
Litecoin-MWEB extension and Grin++ wallet developer David Burkett reports on the severe vulnerability discovered by SouthLagoon. Dubbed as the 'Feed Me Attack' this vulnerability ultimately lead to a bounty being paid an informative cryptographic case study
Governance
Finalize inflation bug bounty details
In last weeks community meeting
Discussion of continuation of project groundskeeper work
Bug bounty details
Compensation and approval of Scilio CoinSwap
Development updates with YeastPlume
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Dec 21 @ 10:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes
RFCs
Draft
Payjoins Support by Phyro
Safe Cancel by Tromp
Early Payment Proofs by Tromp
Open
Multiple Named Wallets by Sheldonth
Multisignature Outputs by GeneFerneau
Atomic Swaps by GeneFerneau
Manual Confirmation of Transaction by DavidTavarez
“blackswangrin“ artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.
This newsletter is curated by StakerVali & Jank Claus. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the GRiN project.
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