99: It was doomed all along ☠️
May 18-24 2020
tl;dr
Grin obituaries launched
New service to check for wallets online via Tor
The last governance meeting reviewed open RFCs
News
Following the death announcement last week, Grin obituaries are collecting more stories stories of the casualty as they break. RIP Grin.
There was a heated discussion on Reddit a while back on a similar note that had I missed to include back then.
@davidtavarez built a service that checks whether a Tor wallet address is reachable.
Dev
There are 74 open issues in /grin, and 32 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 8 in /grin | 5 in /grin-wallet | 5 unique contributors
Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3), expected ~ July 15, 2020, betas expected ~ June 2nd:
@antiochp status update.
The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue May 26 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
In the last governance meeting there was a review of the open RFCs.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Jun 02 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
RFCs
Draft
Parallel IBD [node-dev]
Open
QA Team [core]
Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [wallet-dev]
Slatepack [wallet-dev]
Final Comment Period
General fund spending guidelines [core] - disposition to Merge, FCP extended until Jun 02
No Recent Duplicate (NRD) Kernels [node-dev] - disposition to Merge, FCP extended until Jun 02
Compact Slates [wallet-dev] -disposition to Merge, FCP closed May 21
Accepted
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Closed
e2e encrypted slates over http(s) [wallet-dev]
“Bloody Grin” Artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.
This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.
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