153: ASIC Markets Heating Up🔥

Research

• Location for ongoing PIBD testing now open for contribution and feedback

• New research paper by Georg Fuchsbauer and Michele Orru: "Non-interactive Mimblewimble transactions, revisited"

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News

• PowPower has been formally introduced to the community and confirmed by Ipollo as an official point of distribution for Grin ASICs, with a show of support PowPower has pledged 2% of sales to be donated to Grin project development. This also brings more competition to the ASIC market, which may already be the case as both PowPower and Nhash in return have lowered prices. G1-Mini now $499 and G1-Biggy $14500

• The grinnode.live team remains busy at work with the launch of a new uptime monitor tool for their running services with the code open for review over on the grinnode.live github page

  

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Development

• PIBD - Validation Deadlock Fix

• PIBD - Limit memory allocated for segments

• PIBD - Thread simplification + More TUI Updates + Stop State Propagation

• PIBD - Update number of simultaneous peer requests for segments

• Merged PRs: 4 in/grin | 0 in/grin-wallet |

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Governance

• In last weeks community meeting

  • Provide more exposure to Bisq and other exchanges

  • GrinCC github and website review

  • Bounties for training videos

  • Discuss request for funding @Jankie1800

The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue March 15 @ 10:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes

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Request for Comments

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

• QA Team by Joltz

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Artwork in this edition "untitled" is from graphic design legend GrinSingularity

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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