#40: Magic internet money 🎩
Covering Mar 11 - Mar 17 2019
@0xb100d promoting the Grin reddit with yet another one of their iconic designs.
News
Crypto media picked up the Governance meeting decision to support Ignotus Peverell with a three month donation for full time efforts on the project. Here’s Coindesk and TheBlock reporting.
Meanwhile Antioch Peverell has confirmed they have secured financing for the next three months by a yet-to-be-named company for full time work on Grin. Thank you, unnamed company!
@yeastplume and yours truly were on the Epicenter podcast to talk about Grin.
There was also an AMA conducted for the Chinese Forum 8btc with the help of BTC.com mining pool. There was an article in English published from the resulting discussion.
ResDEX included Grin in a community vote - winner get’s to be part of a 15% donation program - go vote for Grin!
A bill was introduced in Texas to target privacy-focused cryptocurrencies.
See you in Amsterdam next week on March 26th - come join us there!
Dev
There are 147 open issues in the Grin repo.
11 Pull Requests were merged in the past week, by 8 unique contributors.
@yeastplume has been busy hammering away on grin-wallet. Slate versioning and conversions. API v2, and more.
@bddap has been making Wallet API v2 contributions.
Easy JSON RPC lib by Layer1 capital.
Discussion regarding node synchronisation with @valdok from Beam in the dev channel.
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
As mentioned above, @ignotuspeverell was awarded a donation in the last governance meeting. We also discussed audits, treasury management, spending logs, and the recent security vulnerability.
As a result of the discussion during the meting, we’re also evaluating our current security and vulnerability disclosure process. Please feel free to participate.
For all Chinese speakers: there’s an ongoing vote in the forums to give Grin a Chinese character name - head over and participate!
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Mar 26 @ 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.
Notes from the first Ecosystem meeting are up. Lots of projects presented!
A new ASIC miner was announced by Vidtoo.
Poloniex enabled Grin Withdrawals and donated 1.27864 BTC to the Grin Dev fund.
Knockturn Allee was announced - Open source WooCommerce/WordPress plugin to help businesses accept Grin payments, by cycle42
grin.report - New site for grin network performance stats, by @mcdallas.
Diagonalley - A GUI wallet for Grin that appears to be in heavy development.
Upcoming events
Mar 26, Amsterdam, NL: Grin Amsterdam Meetup
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