#43: Soak time 🛀
Covering Apr 1 - Apr 7 2019
Photo by Jelena Ardila Vetrovec on Unsplash
News
Grin mentioned in an Alpine Intel report on Fair token launches.
Guest blog post by @tromp on Computational Complexity about the Cuckoo Cycle proof of work.
Dev
Soak time before release of v1.1.0, with focus on testing
There are 141 open issues in the Grin repo.
2 Pull Requests were merged in the past week, by 2 unique contributors.
v1.0.3 was released. Please upgrade your nodes, many fixes and minor improvements across board.
v1.1.0 betas of wallet and node were released, which adds windows support among many other things. Help test!
Wallet API v2 full Rustdoc documentation.
It was decided in the last dev meeting to try Gitlab's CI as an alternative to Travis. Testing of v1.1.0 was also covered and the release of v1.0.3.
Discussion around how/whether to improve how Grin decides to drop peer connections.
Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Apr 16 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
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Governance
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue Apr 09 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Recent donations by Bminer and BlockCypher had them both make the Friends of Grin Hall of Fame. 🏅🎉
Request for funding, @lehnberg. To be voted on in tomorrow’s governance meeting.
Ecosystem
Any mention of a project in this section should not be seen as an endorsement.
The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Apr 9 @ 17:00 UTC in grin/ecosystem on Gitter.
Niffler: An open source GUI Wallet for Grin in Electron/Vue, currently macOS only.
MyGrin: Custodial Grin Web Wallet. Use at your own risk.
@grinbot by GoblinPay: A Keybase chatbot that adds a Grin privacy wrapper for BTC transactions, similar to xmr.to.
MinerGate mining pool added Grin support.
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