149: Grin Blockchain Genesis Third Years🎉

News

• As the Grin blockchain approaches it's 3rd year genesis day (January 15th) I'd like to reflect on the chains humble beginnings, technical achievements and the herculean efforts to build the protocol as a fair and private store of value capable of full transaction validation from a cell phone. Thanks for being such a great community through it all 💖

  

• Nhash extends holiday Ipollo G1-mini sale (price drop from $849 to $689 with free shipping) for another 200 Grin asic miners. G1-large reported as sold out

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Research

• Grin TX construction by Phyro

• Faceless Slatepacks by Phyro

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Development

Rustlang

• Coinswap development update with Scilio

• TOR bridge + TOR Proxy + migration config_file_version @Deevope

• Don't confuse with different numbering bases @Tromp

• View public wallet rewind_hash scan allowing for wallet spend and balance transparency @Deevope

• Network adapters for remaining PIBD @Yeastplume

• Static cache for Difficulty Iterator @Yeastplume

• Merged PRs: 5 in/grin | 1 in/grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors

Ecosystem

• Addressing feedback in Grin++ @Davidtavarez

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Governance

• In last weeks community meeting

  • Organizing community ecosystem

  • Groundskeeper update

  • Potential Grin-Wallet UI discussion

  • State of scriptless scripts

The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 18 @ 10:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes

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RFC

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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Artwork in this edition is from graphicDesign legend Grinツ-∞Singu◯larity+∞

This newsletter is curated by Jank Claus. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the GRiN project.

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