#17: Grincon0 in Berlin 📣
Covering Oct 1-7
This issue got delayed due to jet lag and travels, apologies for that. The good news is that Grin News comfortably zoomed past 300 subscribers last week! 🚀 Thanks all the support, I’m working to make reading this as interesting possible for you. -- Daniel
News
Grincon0 announced. The first conference on Grin is taking place November 9 in Berlin, save the date.
Tony Sheng on whether privacy is an all or nothing game.
On a similar note, “How much privacy is enough?”, talk by Ian Miers of ZCash foundation touching on Mimblewimble. From the Scaling Bitcoin conference of last weekend, which had plenty of other good talks as well.
Bitcoin magazine article on Mimblewimble projects.
Dev
Meeting notes from last week’s dev meeting. Testnet4, code audits, supported platforms, and labels.
Cuckoo-miner repo, has been updated with two new cuckatoo miners, and Grin-miner was also updated to use these.
@garyyu and @antiochp have been busy tackling a bunch of sync issues.
There are 106 open issues in Grin (+13), with 9 of those open for Testnet4 (+2).
36 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 6 unique contributors.
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Oct 16 @ 3PM UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
Grin General Fund set up and is now accepting donations. Any help to get Grin ready for Mainnet is appreciated.
Mining
Video how-to on setting up a Windows node and mining on T3, courtesy of @phooton.
On the Forums
Grin’s logo became a topic of hot debate on reddit, with some asking what the meaning of the logo was and how best one should understand its purpose. The original logo designer @0x gladly obliged and provided a detailed explanation:
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