#1️⃣8️⃣ ツ Test Mining, GrinIstanbul Meetup, PIBD RFC merged and testnet Activated!
Grin MimbleWimble News biweekly 18
Oct 30 - November 17/ 2022.
NEWS & Developments
PIBD (Parallel Independent Block Download) RFC, finally merged and testnet became ACTİVE !
PIBD, a new peer-to-peer messages method that is required to enable a novel synchronization. This technique shortens the amount of time required to bootstrap nodes and improves the sync process’ overall resiliency. We are grateful 🙏🏻 to Grin devs for that hard-work, especially long time Grin developer @yeastplume. That is a lot of work ! Testnet of PIBD planned to continue until 2023-2024.
GRIN Telegram Bot project development.
Developer Renzokuken has achieved some milestones and is already close to deploying deposit/withdraw commands. Further details will be shared on Grinventions channel and also updated on the forum page.
Telegram has a massive user base, numbering in the Hundred millions, hence the Grin telegram bot has the potential to play a significant part in the widespread adoption of the Grin cryptocurrency.
Nano Ledger Hardware Wallet
How to send and receive Grin with Ledger Live Desktop; under forum title, @Nicolasflamel informed that everything required by Ledger to add MWC and Grin support to their official Ledger Live Desktop and Ledger Live Mobile release is now complete; the only thing left to do is wait for Ledger to complete reviewing the code and merging the changes.
GrinIstanbul Meetup
A Grin meetup organized and held in Istanbul, hosted by @cekickafa on November 2nd of November, @renzokuken and @davidt met with @cekickafa @stakervali in Istanbul, Turkiye. Few days spent, discussions were made all about Grin naturally, some activities are held, again met with other Grinners and also some other blockchain enthusiasts, university club students, blockchain clubs members. More details will be shared soon.
‘‘ We all agreed that such meetups should take place frequently because they have a great effect on building Grin ツ community.’’
GRINISTanbul TestMiners arrived and operational
The PIBD and Grin-Gui Wallet are two key milestones that the GRIN blockchain will shortly reach.
We will need to do several tests for these as normal, thus we need more engaged test miners. We got two test miners from @iPollo.com and @Nhash.net that were given to the community. And we say a sincere thank you for this nice gesture. GRIN solidarity revealed ツ
Ipollo Asic miner manufacturer, kindly donated a G1 mini to community for testnet, sent to @navie. Here is unboxing video of G1 mini home ASIC.
🍍iPollo x Grin Community ツ @MW_Grin Click to know more about #iPollo G1 mini ツ $grin #MimbleWimble #proofofwork #privacy #crypto youtube.com/watch?v=yphHdA…
And Nhash.net has sent a G1 mini miner to@mattcz as well, for running Grin testnet mining.
G1 mini ipollo ツ miner ASIC UNBOXING Video. Donated by @NHASH_Official to a community member for testnet. Thank you ! @NHASH_Official 💛 youtube.com/watch?v=orm7uG… $grin #MimbleWimble #proofofwork #privacy #crypto
Grintestnet explorer functioned again, by @davidtavarez.
Grintestnet explorer
Grin++ Wallet and Node v1.2.8-beta.3 Published
Removed current listener before generating new address.
Fixing tests.
Fixing database issue on newly created wallets.
Added capability to decrypt Slatepack messages created from old addresses.
Replacing tor binaries for macOS taken from GitHub - tor-actions/versions: Tor binary bundles 2
Supporting Slatepack messages created using old addresses.
Fixed recovering wallet after v1.2.8 migration.
Closing password dialog after deleting wallet.
Extending timeout for API calls.
Displaying error on failed attempt of finalize.
Updated Russian translation.
Removed extra logs.
** https://github.com/GrinPlusPlus/GrinPlusPlus/releases/tag/v1.2.8-beta.3
Development PR
There are 114 issues at mimblewimble/grin and 72 issues at mimblewimble/grin-wallet.
Merged PR: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-rfcs/pull/89
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-gui/pull/17
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-gui/pull/18
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-gui/pull/19
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-gui/pull/20
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-gui/pull/22
Request for comments
Draft
Payjoins Support by Phyro.
Safe Cancel by Tromp.
Early Payment Proofs by Tromp.
Auth slates by Renzokuken.
Open
Multiple Named Wallets by Sheldonth.
Multisignature Outputs by GeneFerneau.
Atomic Swaps by GeneFerneau.
Manual Confirmation of Transaction by DavidTavarez.
Governance
Request for funding duty tax bill for testnet miner sent to @mattczt3 discussed.
MW/Grin Workshop+Hackaton in Istanbul idea discussed.
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue November 22 @ 10:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes
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