GRIN ツ 🌐 Decentralization Matters!
Grin MimbleWimble News biweekly #24
"No ICO, pre-mine or funny business."
IGNO PEVERELL
NEWS & Developments
DECENTRALIZATION
Past week, there are some serious discussions and developments in cryptocurrency world. Regulations and CBDC projects are gaining traction.
At this moment, thousands of so-called altcoins have surfaced, all of which will eventually become unimportant and be classified as scams once new regulations are implemented. On the other hand, GRIN ethos remains the same, simply…
Decentralized, with open-source technology and a grassroots community, GRIN is resistant to censorship and maintains net neutrality.
Bitcoin NFTs or Ordinals
The lowest divisible unit of #Bitcoin- satoshis, can be used to produce ordinals by having data written onto them.Images, videos, and even documents can now be kept on-chain. This is a change in how the network is used, the size of blocks, and the fees. But what about ORDINALS on GRIN blockcahin ?
Join &read Discussion on forum pages.
https://forum.grin.mw/t/ordinals-on-grin/10336
ORDINALS 
GRINVENTIONS
Grinventions the first Python-based implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol for the grin cryptocurrency has important developments. The developer of python implementation - @renzokuken announced that he just merged pull request 7, which gives mimblewimble-py a capability of building coinbase. You can track the developments via telegram channel and github.
‘‘ Regarding the technical work, my next steps are the SRS flow and slatepacks.
Grinventions is not dead. The work did not stop and I still track time resources consumed. Progress is slow, but steady. I just stopped being so present in the online communities but I keep coding for you guys. ‘‘
Open Bounty opportunities
Grin Bulletin Board: Discussing three options and select one for bounty:
Design and code previously-introduced idea for Grin Bulletin Board or create your own.
Audit the Atomic Swap repo for functionality and completeness:
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-wallet/pull/618
If interested, reach out on the forum (https://forum.grin.mw), introduce yourself and begin discussion today!
1 BTC bounty for MacOS M1 Ultra miner:
Bounty - 1 BTC + 100 Grin ツ for a MacOS M1 C32 Open Source Miner with ≥0.5 Gps, offered by Cuckoo Cycle author by Grin Core developer Dr. J.Tromp.
You can join and contact via forum for the bounties.
MEME CONTEST
Details about the GRIN Meme Contest are on the forum.
The rules:
-You can share any kind of meme you made that involves GRIN.
Prices are distributed based on total accumulative likes for memes :)
The meme contest ends at February 28th, when all votes/likes are counted.
Feel free to donate your GRIN to the price fund, donate your time as an artists/mememancer, or simply enjoy up-voting memes
PR
There are 114 issues at mimblewimble/grin and 72 issues at mimblewimble/grin-wallet.
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.
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue February 28 @ 15:00 UTC in
grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes
Grin is an opensource project, everybody is free to contribute and join. Thanks to all contributors.
Grin ツ is the original implementation of MimbleWimble.
This newsletter is written by
. Any views, materials, expressed opinions are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project. Any feedback, news or other suggestions, please email: grinpost@protonmail.com.
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