150: Priorities, Goals and Upcoming Node Updates📝
150: Priorities, Goals and Upcoming Node Updates📝
News
Reports of celebrations taking place around the world as another Grin milestone nears completion. The PIBD (parallel initial block download) update changes they way nodes are brought online with a complete rework cutting the troublesome single-node, single-txhashset.zip download process and moving to a multi-parallel and direct MMR download. For development review and contribution- heavy lifting is taking place on the pibd_imp github branch
90 days and still securing the network JimmyPromo is officially a mining veteran. Dropping a new video documenting and sharing his mining journey with the energy efficient yet powerful Ipollo G1-mini Grin asic
Running your own Grin node just got easier. Grin++ developer DavidTavarez shares a friendly linux (Python3) bash script to get and install the most recent Grin++ node with ease. A nice bonus from MCMmike from grinnode.live providing some systemmd magic for easy up down service bindings
More nodes? Yes please. As grinnode.live launches three new public nodes further expanding network decentralization
Research
Grin short term goals and priorities in discussion
Development
Rustlang
PIBD - Chain Segmenter Validation Test + Block Archive Horizon Change
PIBD - Desegmenter State
IBD - Bitmap accumulator reconstruction + TxHashset set reconstruction
Merged PRs: 3 in/grin | 1 in/grin-wallet | 1 unique contributors
Ecosystem
Grin++ Mobile update to 0.3.1 - Complete UI redesign, running Grin++ node v1.2.7
Governance
In last weeks community meeting
Discuss possible TOR version of grin.mw site
Establish a grin wishlist repo
Establish working channels on keybase
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Feb 01 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes
Request For Comment
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
Artwork in this edition "untitled" is from u/grinsun
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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