Grin News #7: Jul 30, 2018
London meetup, Monetary policy, Improved CUDA miner, ProgPoW, VPS node
News
London meetup is this Wednesday. If you’re in town come by and say hi.
Token Daily wrote a post on Grin’s monetary policy. (via @hashmap)
How to set up your own Grin node on Google Cloud, without paying.
Dev
Work on the web-wallet by @yeastplume.
CUDA miner was updated by @tromp and is included in grin-miner. Big improvements reported. Give it a go if you have a GPU.
Research
Transcript, Video, and Slides from Pieter Wuille’s talk on Schnorr, Taproot, and SIGHASH_NOINPUT in Bitcoin.
Beam project published a description of their implementation and how it compares to traditional MW. Some of their ideas in the document refers to one-sided (single trip) transaction constructions, elimination of transaction kernels, and public UTXOs. Not intended to be ready for launch.
Projects
Notes from IDEO Co-lab’s design session on client design considerations and a trustless transaction relayer setup.
Early mockup of the WebUI for Grin-Pool. Contributions, comments, feedback and suggestions are welcomed.
On Gitter & Forums
ProgPoW, a GPU-optimized PoW algorithm discussed in the context of Grin.
Summer reading recommendation by @urza: Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality
Upcoming Events
Aug 1, London: The 2nd London meetup. Present your Grin-related projects.
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