Update Friday, Jan 4th 2019
Happy new year (year of the Grin) all!. Been swamped with bored/rowdy kids off school/creche for the past couple of weeks so time has been limited. However, I did look to squeeze in whatever Grin work I can wherever I could, so here’s a quick rundown of what happened over the disruption season:
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Many fixes and updates to Grin miner, including rewriting the build system to make it easier to manage.
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A Binary release process for Grin-miner, which includes all CPU, most Cuda and the OCL plugins. You’ll still need to build manually for now if you want
cuckatoo_31_cuda support, but the binary release should be good enough for most people. -
grin wallet check_repair, a needed wallet command that checks the contents of the wallet against the live UTXO set and ensuring the wallet’s outputs match. Users should no longer need to restore their wallets from scratch (and lose all their transaction history) if they come across hiccups. There’s a longer justification for this command here -
Encrypting private slate data (needed security enhancement)
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Floonet variants for BIP32 keys (keeping test and main net keys distinct)
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Random other fixes, removal of non-working web wallet from build
Next week I’ll be doing more wallet testing, putting together a ‘howto’ section in the wallet usage doc, hopefully provide a very simplified mining ‘howto’, (now that there’s a binary build,) and whatever else comes up in the mad run up to launch!
2 more points of interest:
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I’ll be joining @lehnberg (a.k.a Daniel from Grin) at the next London meetup: https://www.meetup.com/grinlondon/events/257028620/
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I’ve launched my next Personal funding campaign for Mar-Aug 2018! The vast majority of the tasks I’ve outlined in these updates over the past year wouldn’t have been possible in this time frame without the support of this stellar community. Any contributions large and small are appreciated, and I very much hope you’ll allow me to continue my work on Grin into the foreseeable future!
Thanks it for now. Enjoy a nice relaxing post-holiday extended-family-free weekend.