#33: Greetings from Grincon.us 🇺🇸
Covering Jan 21-28 2019
Grincon.us
Grincon.us was just wrapped up! There are some problems with the video link, but hoping to get the individual talks and slides uploaded ASAP.
In the meanwhile, @kanzure / Bryan Bishop has some transcripts already uploaded.
And there are also some notes from JZ.
News
Arjun Balaji and Hasu take a closer look at Grin’s launch to evaluate how fair it was.
Sapphire launched 16GB Blockchain Graphics Card specifically branded to support Grin.
Meanwhile Innosilicon announced a “very cool” Grin ASIC miner with little additional details.
Unhashed podcast covered Grin in a recent episode.
Ian Miers wrote an essay based on his talks about potential privacy attacks against decoy-based blockchains.
Info in Japanese on Mimblewimble.
Dev
There are 103 open issues in the Grin repo.
25 pull requests were merged in the past week, by 14 unique contributors.
Latest development meeting notes; Mainnet retrospective, v1.1.0 planning, release work process, Contributing policy update.
Verilog implementation of siphash by @eupn.
Support your core developer. The funding campaign for @yeastplume is ongoing.
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Feb 5 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
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Governance
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jan 29 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Research
Tari Labs University did a deep dive into Bulletproofs and Mimblewimble and their use in Grin. Looks thorugh. Not had a chance to review it in detail, but they do accept pull requests for any corrections.
Ecosystem
Any mention of a project in this section should not be seen as an endorsement.
Grinbox is now open sourced with integration instructions. (I’m affiliated)
iOS wallet Ironbelly has now opened for beta testing.
Superlinear.io - GUI wallet for grin transacting with embedded messaging, encryption, open source at launch in ~ two weeks time.
Grinaddr.io - create temp URLs to withdraw grins (requires trusting a third party).
Grin is now listed on coinmarketcap.
CoinGecko accepts Grin donations via http and grinbox.
Grin listed on Kucoin.
Grin listed on Gate.io.
Upcoming events
Jan 29, San Francisco, CA: Bay Area Meetup
Feb 07, Berlin, DE: Post-Genesis Meetup
Mar 26, Amsterdam, NL: Grin Amsterdam Meetup
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