#48: An endorsement 💛

Covering May 06 - May 12 2019

Grin user @Grumpy getting ready for the MCC

News

• Grin got a strong vote of confidence last week by the anonymous donor who donated a full coinbase transaction from 2010, worth 50 BTC to the dev fund. Thank you 🎈

• The 4th Grin London Meetup was announced for July 16th.

• Slides from the talk I gave on Grin Atomic Swaps at last week's Binance Labs meetup in Berlin.

Dev 

• There are 110 open issues in /grin, and 34 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 4 in /grin | 4 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors

• @yeastplume open sourced his Samir's Secret Sharing skunkworks project, an entry point into further research for adding multi-sig support into the official grin wallet.

• v1.1.0-beta2 was released, now with Azure Pipelines CI thanks to @quentinlesceller.

• Invoice transactions support now merged by @yeastplume.

• Concerns raised by @timolson about the use of Siphash for proof of work, challenged by @tromp.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• Next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday May 14 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

• Draft proposal for a 2019 Grin budget.

• The last governance meeting discussed funding and financial transparency report, and a simplified onboarding flow.

• Ecosystem meeting notes for the past two meetings are now up.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue May 21 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Upcoming events

• May 16, Moscow, Russia: 1st Grin Meetup

• July , London, UK: 4th Grin Meetup

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