Grinツ July 2022 #1️⃣1️⃣* ☕ ツ Community meetups revive.

Grin MimbleWimble News biweekly 11

Aug 3

𝗝𝘂ly 15-30 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮

NEWS & Developments.

RUST developer @cliik, a long time GRIN fan and an experienced rust developer, joined GRIN. Some PR from cliik:
- Show QR code for listener address
- Implement 'max' value send
He is mostly contributing to grin-wallet issues. The GRIN Community gladly greets him with open arms. Welcome! ツ

PIBD (Parallel Independent Block Download) review is continuing. Some tasks and issues that need investigation will be carefully reviewed. Long time GRIN Core developer @yeastplume is working on Pibd-deployment. The PIBD on current master is for testnet only, and is planned to start on Sept 5th, 2022.
GRINNode.live Block Archive A github repo for accessing grin chain data, has been put out by @MCMmike’s Grinnodelive team. Do you need blockchain data for research or any kind of task and don't want to wait for syncing a full archive node? You can now download it from this repo in chunks.
Visit Grinnode.live for other tools.
GRIN Telegram Bot. Developer @renzokuken is working on some other new designs and more functionalities for GRIN Telegram Bot. He already started enhancing the capabilities of the bot, such as a faucet, tipping bot, or tech support rewards. Stay alert on this.
- Telegram bot progress thread by @renzokuken.
- Customizable Telegram bots.
GRIN memes. A creative endeavor by a community member, GRIN “One meme a day,” by GriniumMemiosa, is a plan to post one meme a day on twitter for a full year.
GRINNODE.Live Video Chat A spontaneous community meeting is held at 19.07.2022 at 15:00 UTC in parallel with the GRIN Community Council meeting.
Many interesting ideas and toughts expressed; free to join for next meetings. For announcements of the next meetings & info, join Grinventions channel.
Livechat.
GRIN Warsaw ツ Gathering. July 23rd, 2022 @marek @davidtavarez and @crypto_nagini organized a GRIN Community gathering and met in Warsaw, Poland. They spent a nice day together, had some food, drinks, and had lots of GRIN ツ discussions. There will be more Gathering together meet-ups with other community members. Feel free to organise a meet-up in your city or join other locations. GRIN meetups are useful for building and establishing a strong community.
Highlights and summary from GRIN Warsaw ツ ;
- A short summary from @renzokuken
  - https://mareknarozniak.com/2022/07/24/warsaw-grin/
- A viewpoint from @dtavarez
  - https://davidtavarez.github.io/2022/grin-warszawa/
GRIN Sun in Warsaw

Development PR

There are 113 issues at mimblewimble/grin and 70 issues at at mimblewimble/grin-wallet.
- Merged PRs: 5
  - 3 in mimblewimble/grin-wallet
  - 2 in mimblewimble/grin
    Merged repos
    https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/3711
    https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/3731
    https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-wallet/pull/657
    https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-wallet/pull/660
    https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin-wallet/pull/658
DavidT/ Grin++ status updates .

https://github.com/GrinPlusPlus/GrinPlusPlus/pull/204
- https://github.com/GrinPlusPlus/GrinPlusPlus/pull/168
- https://github.com/GrinPlusPlus/GrinPlusPlus/pull/204

Request for comments

Draft

PIBD by Yeastplume.
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

GRIN Testnet, running a faucet for testnet discussed.
Establishing min number for seed nodes discussed.
More test for wallet and node.

The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue August 16 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes

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