150: Priorities, Goals and Upcoming Node Updates📝

News

• Reports of celebrations taking place around the world as another Grin milestone nears completion. The PIBD (parallel initial block download) update changes they way nodes are brought online with a complete rework cutting the troublesome single-node, single-txhashset.zip download process and moving to a multi-parallel and direct MMR download. For development review and contribution- heavy lifting is taking place on the pibd_imp github branch

• 90 days and still securing the network JimmyPromo is officially a mining veteran. Dropping a new video documenting and sharing his mining journey with the energy efficient yet powerful Ipollo G1-mini Grin asic

• Running your own Grin node just got easier. Grin++ developer DavidTavarez shares a friendly linux (Python3) bash script to get and install the most recent Grin++ node with ease. A nice bonus from MCMmike from grinnode.live providing some systemmd magic for easy up down service bindings

• More nodes? Yes please. As grinnode.live launches three new public nodes further expanding network decentralization

Research

• Grin short term goals and priorities in discussion

Development

Rustlang

• PIBD - Chain Segmenter Validation Test + Block Archive Horizon Change

• PIBD - PMMR Desegmenter Structure (Pt. 1)

• PIBD - Introduce PIBD state into sync workflow

• PIBD - Add network adapters for remaining PIBD requests

• PIBD - Desegmenter State

• IBD - Bitmap accumulator reconstruction + TxHashset set reconstruction

• API tokio worker panic fix

• Merged PRs: 3 in/grin | 1 in/grin-wallet | 1 unique contributors

Ecosystem

• Grin++ Mobile update to 0.3.1 - Complete UI redesign, running Grin++ node v1.2.7

Governance

• In last weeks community meeting

  • Discuss possible TOR version of grin.mw site

  • Establish a grin wishlist repo

  • Establish working channels on keybase

The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Feb 01 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes

Request For Comment

Draft

• Payjoins Support by Phyro

• Safe Cancel by Tromp

• Early Payment Proofs by Tromp

Open

• Multiple Named Wallets by Sheldonth

• Multisignature Outputs by GeneFerneau

• Atomic Swaps by GeneFerneau

• Manual Confirmation of Transaction by DavidTavarez

Artwork in this edition "untitled" is from u/grinsun

This newsletter is curated by Jank Claus. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.

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