Grin News #11: Aug 28 2018
Dual PoW proposed - Discuss in today's Governance meeting.
News
A major update to Grin’s proof of work approach was proposed. Dual PoW with a memory-hard Equihash variant for GPU mining, to be fully phased out two years after mainnet. The proposal will be covered in detail in today’s Governance meeting (details below)–feel free to join the discussion.
Dev
Logs from last week’s bi-weekly Dev meeting.
@Yeastplume’s weekly progress update.
Proposed functionality list for Mainnet.
The open issues list has been triaged and is a bit better organised now with labels. Well worth taking a look if it’s been a while and you want to contribute.
There’s been a lot of misc optimisations and refactoring in the past week, this is a list of all the merged pull requests.
Governance
Next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Today @ 3PM UTC in the Gitter lobby, main topic on agenda is the new proposed PoW approach (see above).
A thorough proposal for miner controlled emission rates.
Analysis of decentralised funding programs: Monero, Zcash, and Dash approaches.
Research
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