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

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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

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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

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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

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“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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