#44: Fork fork fork 🍴

Covering Apr 8 - Apr 14 2019

News

• @yeastplume and @lehnberg talked Grin with Laura Shin in the latest edition of the Unchained podcast.

• Binance Labs announced an open source fellowship grant for the Ironbelly Grin mobile wallet. 🎈

• Forum discussion on what the use cases for Grin are.

• What would a week in Grin be without a fork? MWC lights up an airdrop on 4/20, mark it in your calendar. 🚬 The team of seven, including developers, brand strategists and financial consultants, will reserve 10% of the entire emission for development, airdrop 30% to bitcoin addresses, keep 10% in a HODL dividend fund, and the remaining will be POW mined.

Dev 

• There are 141 open issues in the Grin repo. 

• 9 Pull Requests were merged in the past week, by 6 unique contributors.

• Variable size MMR support by @antiochp merged for 1.1.0

• @ignopeverell proposed txhashset zip download via bittorrent

• @quentinlesceller in progress work on setting up Azure Pipelines as a replacement for TravisCI.

• @yeastplume outlined his action plan post Wallet API v2 in his weekly update.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Apr 16 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

• The last Governance meeting discussed a Grin Improvement Proposal processes (which was decided to wait with), Proof of work phaseout changes (also wait and see), Donation to support @lehnberg part-time (granted, six months), and whether to allow donation for specific purposes (not via main dev fund).

• Shout out to SparkPool and an anonymous miner in their pool for another big monthly contribution to the dev fund. 💘

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Apr 23 @ 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. 

• Our favourite swag shop TMGOX started accepting Grin payments via Knockturn Allee.

• @hashmap, developer of said Knockturn Allee has opened a Gitcoin grant request - donate to help him out!

• Vite mobile Grin wallet announced.

• Obelisk added more info about their Grin ASIC miners on their product page.

• The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday May 7 @ 17:00 UTC in grin/ecosystem on Gitter.

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