#41: ASIC Chip Details 🍟

Covering Mar 18 - Mar 24 2019

Last week I somehow managed to publish the newsletter but forget to send it out to the subscribers! 🤦‍♀️ Here’s last week’s edition again in case you missed it and still want to read up (was quite a big one): https://grinnews.substack.com/p/40-magic-internet-money-

Sorry about that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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News

• Grin Amsterdam is taking place tomorrow. If you’re around come and say hi!

• More developments in last week’s newsletter.

Dev

• There are 154 open issues in the Grin repo. 

• 13 Pull Requests were merged in the past week, by 8 unique contributors.

• v1.1.0 and v1.0.3 release timelines and scheduled hard fork process were among the things discussed in the latest dev meeting.

• @yeastplume has been busy with getting rustdoc working for Wallet API v2.

• Dandelion++ rewrite by @antiochp merged and targeted for v1.1.0.

• WIP PR for variable size MMRs by @antiochp.

• Investigation to look into alternatives to TravisCI.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Apr 02 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

• @taek provided some details on the GRN1 ASIC miner from Obelisk which prompted a much wider discussion regarding the phase out schedule and ASIC manufacturing in general, with participation from Innosilicon as well.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Mar 26 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Ecosystem

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• @phooton announced GrinPro2 miner in beta - achieving 5GPS on Vegas chips.

• Wallet for Grin++, the C++ implementation of Grin, is now live after work by @DavidBurkett

• Vite: A new mobile wallet for Grin in development.

• The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Apr 9 @ 17:00 UTC in grin/ecosystem on Gitter.

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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