#34: A work of art 👩🎨
Covering Jan 29 - Feb 03 2019
News
After a little nudge, @yeastplume's funding has now been closed. Thanks to all the supporters for contributing to the project.
Woo! Took a while, but the GrinconUS videos and slides are finally up.
Quentin spoke at Stanford Blockchain Conference. Youtube video here. And then there’s also a transcript by @kanzure / Bryan Bishop.
TheBlock interviews Zcash Co CEO who doesn’t see Grin as a competitor, calling it “fragile and limited on a technological basis”. Including it here for posterity. ツ
Grin Code Review, concludes that “it was built with passion, dedication, and love. The builders should be proud, it is a work of art. Simple, yet elegant. Concise, yet descriptive.”
MIT Technology Review looks into Grin.
Oh and we got forked. Twice. In the same day! And then the two forks started trash talking one another. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And not only that. A third project, Grin Cash, was announced. But it seems it’s not a fork. Just, you know, a cool name.
Dev
There are 117 open issues in the Grin repo.
17 pull requests were merged in the past week, by 10 unique contributors.
Grin v1.0.1 has been released.
@yeastplume has been busy working on windows support for the Rust implementation.
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
Donations in grin are now accepted to the main dev fund via HTTPS: https://donations.grin-tech.org
Governance meeting notes: Fund transparency report, Promoting continuous donations, Grin stackexchange
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Feb 12 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Mining
NiceHash announced support for Grin.
Derek Hsue did an analysis on Grin Hashrate vis-a-vis other networks.
Ecosystem
Any mention of a project in this section should not be seen as an endorsement.
wallet713 v1.0.1 binary is out. Includes transaction-proofs, foreign and owner api support, send to https, file-based transactions, automatic grinbox reconnection and more.
@mi1b also got wallet713 running on windows.
Nice work from IronBelly, displaying tx fee preview and rewards based on UTXO selection.
The first Grin Pizza Delivery Service has been announced, with an amazing logo.
Counter.network added support for Grin.
Shout out to ChainRift for announcing that they will donate 10% of their proceeds to the development fund.
Upcoming events
Feb 07, Berlin, DE: Post-Genesis Meetup
Mar 26, Amsterdam, NL: Grin Amsterdam Meetup
Swag
Justin Bieber launched his own fashion line and it kinda looks like you-know-what.
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