Grin News #3: Jul 02, 2018
Soon Testnet3, Flattering mentions, Call for Grin project presentations
News
Grin was mentioned in the latest issue of Proof of Work.
The project was also referred to as an “extreme version of decentralised fair mining” and as an example of “the One True Cypherpunk Model of immaculate conception” in an article discussing founder incentives.
Youtube playlist of all Zcon0 talks.
Dev
Gitter dev meeting, Testnet 3 is on the horizon. Next meeting is on Tuesday this week.
PR#1193: Accept multiple Cuckoo graph sizes, following @tromp’s proposal merged.
PR#1194: Updated Bulletproof API merged for T3.
@yeastplume weekly update.
Discussion on automating Cuckoo minimum size bumps instead of doing manual soft forks.
Release History doc.
User Stories wiki.
On the forum & Gitter
@tromp on ways to make lean mining unattractive for ASICs.
On possible legislative or regulatory actions that could be effective to curtail “anonymity-enhanced cryptocurrencies” following a speech by the Deputy Assistant Director of the US Secret Service.
Projects
Alpha version of Grinpool.us was announced by @bladedoyle.
Present your Grin-related project at the 2nd London meetup on Aug 1, details on the meetup event.
Research
Scriptless scripts for Discrete Log Contracts on the mailing list.
BLS Signatures: Better than Schnorr (?), via @antiochp, and the subsequent Gitter comments.
Upcoming Events
Aug 1, London: The 2nd London meetup. Grin projects.
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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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