Update Monday, 9th April, 2018
Just realised it’s been far too long since the last post, and I apologise and ensure you this won’t become a habit, as these things are supposed to be weekly. My attention’s been diverted slightly over the past couple of weeks due to intense school holidays followed by a short illness. In any case it’s probably no harm, because with a long ongoing project like this, it’s vital to disengage for a bit days once in a while or you end up driving yourself quite mad. But all Yeastlings are back at school, most disease microbes are vanquished and, and the… mental particles, I guess… have been recharged so I’m back in full force.
I’ll give a fuller update at the end of the week, but I have it in my head to now to start looking into (in no particular order):
- Wallet restore fixes, mostly enabling such on fast synced nodes, which first require a sensible method of chunking the UTXO set in some manner other than by height
- Integration of @apoelstra’s latest bulletproof API, which should make wallet restore easier, hopefully contain some speed improvements and pave the way for future enhancements
- Mining improvements, going to have a good review and play around with a new stratum server implementat here: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/937, as well as a good look exciting new GPU miner developments from @photon and @urza here: https://github.com/mozkomor/GrinGoldMiner
- Ongoing wallet design discussion
Fuller update at the end of the week… but just one more shameless plug for my ongoing funding campaign here: Funding Campaign - Yeastplume - May to Aug 2018 which I think is going well… we’re about 1/3 of the way there now, which is great. So very big thanks to everyone who’s donated so far, and I hope to be able to keep serving the project full-time for as long as is possible!