#21: See you in Berlin! 👨‍🚀

Covering Oct 29 - Nov 4 2018

News

• Grincon0, the first Grin & Mimblewimble conference, takes place this Friday in Berlin, and it looks like it will be a full house. Sponsorship packages have been made available, funds will go to Grin’s security audit. If you’re around, come and say hi.

• Grin received a π-sized BTC donation from the Beam project.

• Writing and publishing code alone cannot be a crime. A well written response to the recent speech by the CFTC commissioner suggesting that developers who could “reasonably foresee” that code they write would be used in violations, should be held responsible. Makes you wonder whether kitchen knife manufacturers then also should be held accountable for all the events they could “reasonably foresee” their creations being used for...

Dev

• Notes from the last week’s dev meeting. Mainly focused on mainnet planning, there’s a hard fork on testnet4 scheduled for late November.

• @yeastplume’s weekly progress update. Grincon preparations, and some web wallet work.

• @ignopeverell collated Grin’s validation logic and put it all in one place.

• User stories for the web wallet MVP.

• There are 101 open issues in Grin. 

• 27 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 9 unique contributors.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Nov 13 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Community effort has kicked off to draft Grin’s mission statement.

• @ignopeverell drafted a Privacy Primer, detailing the degree of privacy Grin currently offers.

• Next bi-weekly Governance meeting is scheduled for Tomorrow Nov 6 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Research

• @retq et. al. published their paper “Aggregate cash systems”, offering a provable-security analysis for Mimblewimble. Well worth a read even if you’re non-technical.

Upcoming Events

• This Friday Nov 9, Berlin: Grincon0 - the first conference covering Grin and Mimblewimble.

Projects

• Third time’s the charm. Word got out of a new Mimblewimble project, apparently still in stealth mode. WOKE is 7 coins in one, claiming the spot for the world’s 3rd-9th first Mimblewimble blockchain. With 12 non-profit foundations and some coins having a capped emission with a supply as low as 42 total coins in circulation, this project is one to look out for.

Swag

More TMGOX clothing was spotted in the wild at Devcon last week, as below. There are also special halloween editions available now. All profits from apparel sales are kindly donated to Grin’s development fund.

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This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

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