Grin News #6: Jul 23, 2018
2 year anniversary of MW, LMDB migration, Mining
News
July 19 marked two years since the publication of the original Mimblewimble paper. A lot has happened since, and with at least two projects in active development, chances are good that a working implementation of the protocol will be live on production by the time of the third anniversary in 2019.
Grin wallets are being automatically migrated to a new LMDB backend, which comes with a new transaction log, thanks to work by @yeastplume.
Dev
Monday’s dev meeting.
Weekly update by @yeastplume, going into details about the transaction log and how some of the new wallet commands work.
@hashmap proposed using distributed hash tables (DHT) as an addressing layer.
Stratum Server RPC protocol and How-to run a local network on Testnet3 has been documented, courtesy of @quentinlesceller and @beaver-tooth.
On Gitter
We went deep down the rabbit hole of mining for a day on Gitter, discussing different approaches. The conversation later picked up again.
A brief conversation on trademarks in the context of Grin.
The practicalities of @tromp’s Fair Mining License.
Projects
BEAM project as reported on previously has now been officially announced.
Small team of IDEO people are looking to build a wallet, and are asking for input.
Upcoming Events
Aug 1, London: The 2nd London meetup. Present your Grin-related projects.
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