#55: Grin 2.0 🔀

Covering Jun 24 - Jun 30 2019

Coinbase CEO Bryan Armstrong tweeted a video with a grin sticker in it, leading to lots of speculation about a possible future listing. To me it just looks like someone has great taste in laptop stickers, that’s all. ツ

News

• Grin 2.0.0 has just been released. Upgrade node and wallet binaries ASAP, these are the only versions that will be working after the mid-July hard fork. ☝️

• Edward Snowden briefly mentioned Grin in the context of privacy at a Bitcoin conference. (~26 min in).

• Bitcoin.com made Ignotus / Satoshi comparisons. In other news: Satoshi starts with an S and ends with an I. Ignotus… rhymes with grinluminati. 👁

Dev

• There are 130 open issues in /grin, and 23 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 10 in /grin | 4 in /grin-wallet | 6 unique contributors

• Last week's dev meeting decided in favour @tromp’s proposal to halt proof-of-work phaseouts and to define an 18 month moratorium on changes to the ASIC targeted proof of work.

• WIP pull request by @chisa0a to add initial I2P support, see the Grin over I2P user guide for instructions.

• @yeastplume commented on the recent transaction building difficulties we've seen as part of the upgrade to 1.1.0.

• @yeastplume’s weekly update.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jul 9 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

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Governance

• There's been a lot of activity in the RFC repo where we try to hash out the details of how RFCs and sub-teams will work. Feel free to participate:

  • Update RFC process

  • Update Governance RFC

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 02 @ 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. 

• The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 02 @ 17:00 UTC in grin/Ecosystem on Gitter.

Upcoming events

• July 16, London, UK: 4th Grin Meetup

• July 23, Seoul, KR: Grin Meetup

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