#77: ASIC friendly > resistant 🤖

Covering Dec 09-15 2019

News

• With Cuckatoo31+ rewards having reached 51%, Grin is now more ASIC Friendly than ASIC Resistant.

Dev

• There are 110 open issues in /grin, and 24 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 7 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 4 unique contributors

• v3.0.0 network upgrade, Jan 15 2020:

  • Planning issue with milestones

  • Upgrade timelines and more info

• There's been code freeze for v3.0.0, full focus on producing the best possible release candidate in time for the scheduled upgrade. Beta 2 was released earlier this week for the node.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Dec 24 @ 15:00 UTC in grin/Dev on Gitter. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• Funding request from Yeastplume for full time development during Q12020, to be covered in tomorrow’s Governance meeting.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Dec 17 @ 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

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Final Comment Period

• Online Transacting via TOR Hidden Services [wallet-dev]

• Enable faster sync [node-dev]

Accepted

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Closed

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