#20: GPU mining with CuckARoo ⛏
Covering Oct 22-28
News
Jimmy Song video on What is Mimblewimble.
Andreas Antonopoulos on What are bulletproofs.
Grin Hub: a community resource for all things Grin and Mimblewimble.
Grin reviewed by Colorado blockchain community MileHigh Decentralized.
Grin/Mimblewimble beginner’s guide by Blockonomi.
Economics professor Larry White on Bitcoin after 10 years.
Mining
Cuckaroo, the ASIC Resistant version of the PoW for Mainnet was proposed by @tromp. Targeted for GPU mining for the first 2 years, feedback from the community on the proposal is requested.
Dev
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Oct 30 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
@yeastplume’s weekly progress update. Grin-miner was rewritten and rustified.
Accidentally left out from last week’s issue, @ignopeverell outlined dev priorities ahead of mainnet in the Gitter chat.
There are 102 open issues in Grin.
22 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 10 unique contributors.
Governance
Notes from last week's Governance meeting. Security audits, Fundraising, PoW, Mainnet release timelines in focus.
Brainstorming for Risk Management. Participate in identifying risks and scoring!
@ignopeverell kicked off a community effort to improve grin-tech.org, there are already some candidate proposals.
Ideas for auctions as a way to raise funds.
Next bi-weekly Governance meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Nov 6 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Research
@bbuenz’s talk from Scaling Bitcoin on RSA accumulators is giving the core devs some crazy interesting ideas.
Upcoming Events
Nov 9, Berlin: Grincon0 - the first conference covering Grin and Mimblewimble.
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