#57: Fork imminent 🍴
Covering Jul 08-14 2019
Forum user @Grumpy took it upon themselves to submit an application to Binance. 🥇
News
The hard fork that will see the Grin network upgrade to v2.0.0 is happening at time T minus two days or so. Here’s a handy countdown timer provided by the folks at CoinGecko. Version 2 will put transaction incompatibility behind us (permanently hopefully), and will see a a lot of fixes and improvements, and provide a more stable ground for future upgrades. If you’ve not yet upgraded your node or wallet to v2.0.0, do so ASAP.
Tomorrow Tuesday there’s the 4th Grin Meetup in London. @yeastplume, @jaspervdm, and yours truly will be there alongside some of the other 86 grinners who are planning to attend, come join us! 🙋♀️
@nijynot has been working on a redesign of the grin website and a new visual language for Grin. 👩🎨
And if a scheduled hard fork isn’t enough action for you, there’s also been yet another Grin fork / Grin clone announced! Technically "Epic Cash" was announced, not that it's actually a fork of the grin codebase. ツ
Dev
There are 113 open issues in /grin, and 29 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 5 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 6 unique contributors
Last week's development meeting covered the creation of the wallet and node sub teams, an update on the work following our security audit work from @jo1tz, and planning for Grin v2.0.1 and v2.1.0.
@antiochp simplified handling of the txhashset zip.
@hashmap had a CPU performance improvement merged that uses blocking IO.
@yeastplume is working on a wallet rework/refactoring and RFC. Read more in his weekly update.
The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Jul 23 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
The wallet development sub team has been discussing how to self-organise, you can join the discussion in the Keybase team.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jul 16 @ 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.
For those using Grin Gold Miner, there's been some hard fork information announced.
Vite wallet is also ready for 2.0.0.
The next monthly ecosystem meeting is scheduled for Tue Aug 13 @ 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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