Grin News #2: Jun 25, 2018

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Scriptless scripts, Testnet 3 branch, Berlin Meetup…

News

• Andrew Poelstra and Scriptless scripts covered in the context of Bitcoin in a Coindesk article. Andrew also made some comments on the article on Gitter.
• @hashmap’s summary of the Berlin meetup last week.
• Unchained podcast with David Vorick of Sia and Obelisk on mining centralisation, ASICs, and GPUs. Includes a response by Jihan Wu of Bitmain.

Dev

• Gitter dev meeting was postponed to next week, and will now take place two weeks in a row.
• PR#1163 to add kernel sum and MMR sizes to the block headers. Fixes fast sync vulnerability and a couple of other issues.
• There is now a testnet3 branch.
• Contracts documentation updated with time locked transactions by @antiochp.
• @yeastplume weekly update.

On the forums

• Reverse transaction building, where the recipient creates the transaction and publish to the Blockchain instead of the sender.
• Discussion about Governance plans.
• More logo proposals are coming in.

Projects

• Grin Testnet2 faucet by grinpool.co is live.

Research

• “Multi-Hop Locks for Secure, Privacy-Preserving and Interoperable Payment-Channel Networks”. (Via @urza_cc_twitter)

Upcoming Events

• Aug 1, London: The 2nd London meetup. Agenda TBA.

Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.