#74: New proof of work bird revealed 🐦
Covering Nov 18-24 2019
grincon1: thank you to those of you who made it out to the annual Grin Developer Conference last week! Slides and videos to be posted. Unedited recording available on the grincon website in the meanwhile.
A big thank you to the official grincon1 conference sponsor QTUM,
as well as to SparkPool for their additional support.
News
The Block asked us some questions with regards to last week’s claims and counter-claims regarding Mimblewimble. Here is the full response, well worth a read.
Out of all the news articles that resulted from last week’s back and forth, perhaps the CoinTelegraph story won the prize in the “weirdest headline” and “actually made an attempt to research the story” categories.
Dev
There are 105 open issues in /grin, and 34 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 3 in /grin | 1 in /grin-wallet | 3 unique contributors
v3.0.0 network upgrade, Jan 15 2020:
Planning issue with milestones
Upgrade timelines and more info
Details of the new GPU-friendly PoW Cuckaroom that was announced at Grincon1 by @tromp.
The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Nov 26 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
Last week’s governance meeting covered forum migration, Open research problems, and Roadmap RFC.
Spending and income logs are in the process of being updated.
Open Research Problems now moved to its own section on the website.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Dec 03 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.
RFCs
Draft
Relative kernels [node-dev]
Asynch Transacting via Relays [wallet-dev]
Multiple named wallets [wallet-dev]
Open
Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]
Final Comment Period
Node API v2 [node-dev]
Enable faster sync [node-dev]
Accepted
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Closed
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Events
Dec 07 2019, Fort Lauderdale, FL: Grin USA meetup
“Spiral Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.
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