#23: California Love 🔜🕶
Covering Nov 12-18 2018
News
Grincon is coming to California on January 28 2019. Save the date. More info to follow.
Quentin & Blockcypher published an introduction to Grin’s Proof of Work.
The Promise Miner/Protocol –“The first quantum-resistant, privacy preserving, credit reputation and payments network for business”, forked Grin, and is using it to run their testnet.
Coinmine.com wants to make crypto mining easy, and is using Grin to promote their miners that draw “less power than a PlayStation”. Interesting team and group of investors. Unclear if/how their 4GB AMD GPU will be applied to actually mine Grin.
Zooko finds Grin’s approach to PoW ‘encouraging’.
Governance
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tomorrow Nov 20 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
A launch date for Mainnet is among the things to be discussed in the meeting tomorrow.
Dev
There are 113 open issues in Grin.
30 pull requests were merged in the past week, with 9 unique contributors.
Notes from the latest Dev meeting. Scheduled hard fork pushed one week, plugins, pow, and mainnet planning.
@yeastplume’s weekly update covers the work he’s kicked off to introduce the notion of ‘wallet plugins’, making it easy to integrate new communication methods for transaction building with the wallet.
@tromp ran the first cuckaroo cycle ever, our ASIC-resistant proof of work. Coming soon (tm) to you through a scheduled hard fork.
At the same time, @tromp has also been researching the feasibility for Cuckatoo32 to be the ASIC-friendly proof of work.
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Nov 27 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Design
There is now a dedicated /design channel on Gitter. Don’t be a stranger.
We’ve also set up an organisation in Figma. Feel free to reach out to me if you want to be included.
Research
Confidential Assets discussed on the forum.
Projects
@mcdallas ported Gringotts to Rust.
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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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