#35: Max Coin Cap Introduced 🌝

Covering Feb 04 - Feb 10 2019

Feb 11, 2019

News

The big news this week is of course the Max Coin Cap that was introduced. With its bucket-style design, it’s expected to have huge impact on much cryptoeconomics fundamentals. Available in 98% cotton for only $42.
Interview with Layer1 CEO Alexander Liegl.
A Grin StackExchange has been proposed. Please visit and follow the project in order for it to make it to the next round of review.
Zooko commented on Grin’s emission rate:

@tiagoloriato @Stop_Groupthink @twobitidiot @onchainfx If I were doing it all over again (like Grin is), I would probably choose just a fixed inflation rate, I.e. 1 ZEC per block from the genesis block until the end time. Grin has chosen that, and I'm envious of the simplicity.

Dev

There are 123 open issues in the Grin repo.
11 pull requests were merged in the past week, by 8 unique contributors.
@yeastplume had a PR merged that makes partial support for Grin on Windows 10 possible. Full support inbound.
The last developer meeting discussed handling of unsafe http sending and wallet GUIs.
The auditor of our libsecp fork, JP Aumasson, has written about auditing Rust Crypto libraries.
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Feb 19 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

Derek Hsue published a thorough deep dive into Grin Governance.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Feb 12 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Ecosystem

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TMGOX transparency report published, 0.411 BTC sent to the dev fund.
Ironbelly, mobile wallet for iOS and Android, was open sourced.
The team behind Etherscan launched a Grin block explorer.
@hendi, behind community driven grin-pool.org, opened up for voluntary donations by miners to the dev fund (and to the pool itself).
Bittrex International exchange listed Grin.
Galleon Exchange was put on hold, kudos to the team for doing a graceful and elegant wind-down.

Research

Coincenter published The Case for Electronic Cash, arguing for why we private peer-to-peer payments are essential to an open society. Worth a read.
@apoelstra gave a talk about Schnorr, Multi-sig, and Threshold signatures. Slides available here, and the ever so awesome @kanzure providing full transcript here.
Sonic, a practical zk-SNARK with a nearly trustless setup.

Upcoming events

Feb 22, Bangkok, THA: Grin Asia Meetup
Mar 26, Amsterdam, NL: Grin Amsterdam Meetup

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