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#29: First audit complete 🔬

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#29: First audit complete 🔬

Covering Dec 24-30 2018

Daniel Lehnberg
Dec 31, 2018
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#29: First audit complete 🔬

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Last edition of 2018! A warm welcome to all the new subscribers, and thanks to the older subscribers for sticking around. Here’s to a 2019 filled with Mainnet Grins! 🥂
- Daniel


News

  • @hashmap participated on a panel organized by Binance Labs during 35C3.

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    Cryptography and Privacy researchers discussing how blockchain can help users maintain their anonymity at @bianancelabs #35c3 event.
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  • There’s finally an announcement of Grin on Bitcointalk. What would a launch be without it?

  • Grin mentioned in article on 2019 trends at (BCH-affiliated?) Bitcoin.com.

Dev

  • There are 131 open issues in Grin. 

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

  • Floonet testnet was re-released as Grin v0.5.0 to mirror Mainnet much closer and add a bunch of nice-to-have features and fixes.

  • Grin’s first security audit, covering the patches and additions on top of libsecp was concluded by JP Aumasson. Nothing too serious identified, but improvements are being actioned. Thanks to JP, and the benefactor who facilitated and financed this effort.

  • Help out by hosting a DNS seed for Mainnet rollout.

  • More updates in the full notes from the Development meeting. In addition to the above points, adoption of Semver was agreed, and there was a discussion on how best to handle planning of upcoming features.

  • Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jan 8 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

  • Community effort to provide FAQ documentation to exchanges has been kicked off.

  • NOTE DAY CHANGE: The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Thursday Jan 3 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Upcoming events

  • Jan 8, London, UK: Grin London Meetup. Submit projects you want to demo.

  • Jan 28, San Mateo, CA: Grincon(0)<US>. All proceeds go to Grin development fund.

Grin at 35C3 in Leipzig (photo: @hashmap)


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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.

Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop me a line on daniel.lehnberg-at-protonmail.com or find me on Gitter.

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