Grin News #10: Aug 20 2018
Funding campaign, Web wallet, Governance meeting, Loads of Dev activity.
News
@Yeastplume has launched his funding campaign for Oct 2018 - Feb 2019. If you have the means, consider donating to help Grin progress faster by allowing him to stay on working full time.
Article on Bitcoin’s progress with Schnorr, Taproot, Graftroot, etc.
Dev
The next bi-weekly Dev meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday Aug 21 @ 3PM UTC (note new time!) in the Gitter/Dev channel.
@Yeastplume’s weekly update is back, mandatory reading if you want to stay up to date on progress.
PR#1346: Improved sorting of transactions in Tx pool for block inclusion.
PR#1354: Validation in Block and Transaction is now consolidated into TransactionBody.
PR#1363: Significant speed optimisations for range proof verifications.
PR#1365: `grin wallet outputs` now shows output commitments.
PR#1367: Web wallet included in Grin now.
PR#1369: Multiple change output splitter.
Talks on starting to provide MacOS and Linux binaries.
Making Grin less monolithic.
Aggsig signature hash has been computed incorrectly. Good catch by @garyyuu.
Governance
Meeting notes from the first Governance-only meeting. Full chat transcript here.
Next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Aug 28 @ 3PM UTC in the Gitter lobby, all are welcome to participate.
The Risk Management document is receiving more updates, feel free to chime in.
Forum discussion on vision/mission/values of the project.
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