#39: Grin Hall of Fame 🏆
Covering Mar 04 - Mar 10 2019
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash
News
Details of a critical security vulnerability affecting Grin nodes v1.0.1 or older was released. The issue was fixed as part of v1.0.2 that was released to the public a few weeks ago. If you’re not running v1.0.2 yet - upgrade asap. 🏇
Circle Research published an exhaustive report on Mimblewimble, well structured and a good read for anyone that wants to understand Grin and Mimblewimble better.
According to Messari, Grin is a rising twitter star. 🌟
I was interviewed by the folks over at Coin360, covering topics ranging from grin transactions, privacy, grinbox & wallet713, poker, and valuation models.
The President of the Finance Committee of France’s National Assembly thinks anonymous cryptocurrencies should be banned. Ho hum.
Meanwhile, a report published by Coin Center, argues that backdoors and limits on software developers working on cryptocurrency projects are unconstitutional.
There's another Grin fork! (yay!) Sadly it doesn't actually refer to itself as a fork. (nay) As is now the custom, we had another of our forks trash this new fork. ツ
Dev
There are 148 open issues in the Grin repo.
5 pull requests were merged in the past week, by 4 unique contributors.
@yeastplume’s weekly update: Wallet work and the new wallet roadmap.
Latest dev meeting covered planning for v1.1.0, discussed nightly builds, and a new release of rust-secp.
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Mar 19 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
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Governance
We were analysed from a game theoretic perspective and given an “ICO or die a slow death” ultimatum by twitterer @scott_lew_is:
Meanwhile, the Friends of Grin Hall of Fame section is now live, where we pay tribute to our most epic supporters. Work in progress. Thanks to all donors, big or small!
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Mar 12 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Ecosystem
Any mention of a project in this section should not be seen as an endorsement.
The first Grin ecosystem meeting is taking place on Tuesday Mar 12 after the governance meeting, in the Ecosystem channel on Gitter. It’s a chance for any one in the community to demo their project to the rest of the community. If you have a project you would like to be included - write to us there.
mimwim.net - a tool to help you accurately compare some privacy coins from a mining perspective.
Upcoming events
Mar 26, Amsterdam, NL: Grin Amsterdam Meetup
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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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