#22: Good vibes 🏄‍♂️

Covering Nov 5-11 2018

grincon0

Grin_Hub @grin_hub

@grin_hub team were at grincon0. Wanted to say it was a great event and nice to be able to put a face and name to many of the devs and other community members. We look forward to attending similar events in the future.

Only conceived a few weeks ago, grincon0, the first conference on Grin and Mimblewimble, drew a full house at c-base in Berlin. Many also tuned in to the livestreaming of the event, including the project’s anonymous founder @ignopeverell who opened the conference remotely via text-to-speech that was sent over ssh.

A warm thanks to the sponsors who donated to the security audit in support of the project, and to all of you who were able to make it there and contribute to the great atmosphere.

• Youtube playlist of all the talks

• PDFs of the slides in all the presentations

• Trip report from an attendee

News

• While we've now dropped down to third position, Grin was briefly the #1 trending Rust repo on GitHub on a monthly basis.

• An intro to Mimblewimble (behind Medium paywall).

• A TokenDaily article about Mimblewimble’s strengths and weaknesses.

Dev

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

• There are 109 open issues in Grin. 

• 30 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 10 unique contributors.

Governance

• @ignopeverell applied for the Samsung NEXT Stack Zero Grant in the hopes of securing better funding for Grin.

• Outlining some of the thinking behind picking Cuckoo Cycle as proof of work for Grin.

• Notes from last week’s governance meeting.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled to for Tuesday Nov 20 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Research

• Discussion on the merits of switching to Curve25519-dalek for faster bulletproofs.

Projects

• @mcdallas unveiled Gringotts, a transaction building service that works via Keybase direct messaging.

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