Update Friday, March 20th 2020
World has gone slightly mad since my last update, and with a Yeastlair full of 7 people with varying degrees of neediness, some challenges have been thrown into my usual routines. However, these issues are hardly unique to me at present so I won’t dwell on them.
4.0.0 Release planning is firming up, and most of my time right now is taken up with still-experimental work of ‘compacting’ the Slate, the idea being that we keep the first leg of a slate journey very minimal to allow for a greater wealth of transaction initiation options. There will be an RFC introduced shortly to go alongside this PR, and the hope is that the V4 Slate will be as compact as possibly, ready for the rigors of a possible post scheduled Hardfork world.
With the existing work that’s already gone into the 4.0.0, and the potential changes to allow duplicate outputs, there should be plenty to do and test for 4.0.0. Needless to say there’s plenty to keep me out of trouble in the interim.
Going to keep it short for now. You most probably have greater worries at the moment than the state of a particular crypto-currency, but rest assured myself and everyone on the Grin team plan to keep plugging away as best we can.
Remain strong and sensible, get your news from reliable sources, stay safe.