#30: Making headlines 📰

Covering Dec 31 2018 - Jan 6 2019

News

• Tibor Fisher of The Guardian mentioning Grin in a piece about the 10th anniversary of Bitcoin, calling it “…the best name for a currency in the history of money”.

• Grin made the front page of Hacker News on Jan 3rd.

• Mentioned on #15 of Arjun Balaji’s noteworthy Crypto Theses for 2019 post.

• Included in @lopp 2018 stats on commits & contributors.

• Some valuation commentary:

  Su Zhu @zhusu

  To support a $500mill mcap on Grin in 6 months, the market would need to absorb $2.7mill/day in Grin issuance/inflation (higher than ETH, and more than 50% of BTC issuance). What's the idea behind trying to hypermonetize something that was designed to avoid hypermonetization?

Dev

• There are 120 open issues in the Grin repo. 

• 26 pull requests were merged in the past week, by 13 unique contributors.

• Lots of activity from @yeastplume in preparation for mainnet, details in his weekly update.

• YEASTPLUME FUNDING CAMPAIGN OPEN for Mar-Aug 2019. If you’re looking to mine Grin, funding protocol development is one of the better ways to protect your investment. Please consider donating.

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

Governance

• Notes from last Governance meeting. No genesis block message. Non-binding polls for mission statement, currency ticker, and symbol is conducted on the forum and decisions will be made in next meeting.

• Some of Bisq’s experiences with governance.

• NOTE DAY CHANGE: The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Thursday Jan 17 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Mining

• OpenCL Lean miner plugin for Cuckatoo31 (ASIC Targeted POW) merged by @hashmap. ASIC Resistant Cuckaroo is up next.

• GPU memory reductions discovered that have led to lower GPU minimum requirements. New known minimums are 5.5 GB for Cuckaroo and 11 GB for Cuckatoo. @tromp has built miner plugins that supports these, now merged in grin-miner.

• @tromp on the best GPU for mining grin.

• @tromp on the best way to decide whether to mine Cuckaroo or Cuckatoo.

• grin-miner binaries are up, courtesy of @yeastplume.

Projects

• GrinPro Miner: High performance and professional miner to manage and monitor mining of Grin.

Upcoming events

• Jan 8, London, UK: Grin London Meetup. @yeastplume confirmed to join.

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