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Update Friday, July 19th, 2019

Well, that turned out to be possibly the most uneventful hard-fork in the history of hard forks. I think the worst issue we had was that wallet listeners need to be restarted if they were running over the course of the fork (and I’ll take 100% responsibility for that one). Like the whole Y2K thing, all of the work that gets put into ensuring these events run smoothly goes completely unnoticed by most people if it’s done correctly, and everyone involved in Grin has done a great job making sure this one was completely unremarkable. Well done everyone!

Also, everyone should be on the same page with respect to running the 2.0.0 node, V2 Slate, V2 APIs etc and as far as I can tell everyone is able to transact again without these compatibility issues. We’ll all be being extra careful from now on that this remains the case, and will be highly unlikely to be making slate changes without a) very, very good reasons or b) at a scheduled hardfork opportunity

So on we go. For my part this week:

  • The large aforementioned wallet refactoring is mostly done, or at least to the point where everything works again and all tests now compile (and I took the opportunity to refactor a few tests to make this a bit easier in future). I’ve paused development there a bit to have a think, because one of the aspects of this refactor is to handle passwords and seeds over API calls in a relatively secure way. Currently researching and discussing to come up with a scheme here, and will be incorporating thinking there into a revised version of the RFC next week.

  • The London Grin Meetup went well, was good to see a few familiar faces and meet a few new ones. Also took the opportunity to have some decent technical brainstorming with @lehnberg, @jaspervdm and @ravidio (on keybase) about possible improvements and directions for Grin. I won’t go into too much detail about any of those, but I expect we’ll be relating some of these ideas in both the wallet and node subteam channels very soon.

That’s it for now. Enjoy post-hardfork bliss everyone! (for a little while before we all start worrying about the next one)

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