Grin News #1: Jun 18, 2018

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Q&A Notes, Web wallet, Dynamic PoW, and Berlin Meetup…

News

• The notes from the first London meetup are up, where @yeastplume held a Q&A that gave a nice overview of where things stand at the moment.

Dev

• In Friday’s update @yeastplume presented the first pass of a Grin web wallet, built with Angular 6 and Bootstrap. Contributions are welcomed! The entire update is worth reading, it outlines some of the immediate priorities in detail, and also has some screenshots and initial setup instructions for the wallet for those who want to give it a go.
• @tromp proposed that Grin would support dynamic PoW graph size scaling, basically accepting multiple mining difficulties simultaneously whilst offering reward incentives for larger graphs. This would enable PoW upgrades to be as simple as soft forks, and hopefully allow for a more competitive landscape for ASIC manufacturing.
• @tromp raised a bug that opened up for fast sync to be attacked, a fix has been identified.

On the forums

• Obelisk founder and Sia lead developer David Vorick aka Taek reignited the ASICs and Governance thread with a post that led to more replies. The entire discussion is worth a read.

From Gitter

• @quentinlesceller summarises the Merkle Mountain Range building blocks and functionality.
• A chat exchange on atomic swaps / Scriptless Scripts with @ysangkok, @ignopeverell and @tromp.

Research

• Researchers at Microsoft Research provide resource estimates for quantum computers to break elliptic curve cryptography. (Via @OpticFlowX.)

Upcoming Events

• June 19, Berlin: @hashmap and friends are hosting the first Grin & Mimblewimble meetup in Berlin tomorrow. If you’re in town, be sure to drop by!
• Aug 1, London: The 2nd London meetup was just announced. Agenda TBA.