Congratulations Grin team!! Great job. and we forgive you for DDoSing Grinmint...we're finally stabilizing.
Cheers, Catheryne On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:06 PM Ignotus Peverell < igno.pever...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I thought I'd provide a little summary of our launch, which was for the > most part surprisingly smooth. > > 1. The Genesis block was commited around 15:28 UTC [1] with a block time > of 16:01 UTC [2]. It also includes the hash of bitcoin block > 0000000000000000002a8bc32f43277fe9c063b9c99ea252b483941dcd06e217. > 2. Initial difficulty was set appropriately high to avoid too many initial > blocks, with the next 20 blocks coming in only in about 3h (first block > took 1.5h) and difficulty adjustments doing its job. This and the previous > point guarantee no pre-mine. > 3. At the moment, graphpower on the chain is high enough to be considered > "safe". > 4. We sorta DDoS'd mining pools unintentionally by not having support for > setting a min difficulty in the miner. Sorry guys. This is fixed now (so > upgrade your miner). > 5. The Grin ecosystem is growing by the minute, with new announcements and > services supporting it. It's very nice to see. > > This has been a long time in the making and I couldn't be more proud of > our team, our community and what we accomplished with Grin v1.0.0 (yes, > we're sporting the scary v1). Now it's time to look ahead, and our > commitment to keep pushing Grin and its community forward has never been > stronger. We've made clear that we weren't here for the quick ICO, but > rather to push the state of the art in what can be accomplished with a > blockchain. We have many research directions to pursue, and intend to make > Grin even more nimble and private than it already is. I'm excited just > thinking about it! > > We will continue to need your help. Many extremely talented individuals > are working on this project, they will need support. And we will need help > for some efforts, like audits or bounties for example. I hope that this > launch proved again that we stand by our words and can deliver what we > promise. In particular, Yeastplume is running another campaign [3]. As I'm > sure you know he has been instrumental in getting Grin where it is today. > This isn't an easy way to work when you have a family, but it guarantees he > will keep exercising his skills (not only the drinking ones) for the > benefit of the Grin community. So I hope you'll show him some support if > you can (and if you can't, a nice word never feels bad). > > Let's make Grin even more awesome! > > - Igno > > P.S. Not I did not have to sell my car. But maybe I should, it's getting > old. I hear there are models that don't require horses nowadays. > > [1] > https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/commit/8fc489a80868fcf12fcdbc0551528bb73fc891a0 > [2] https://grinscan.net/block/0 > [3] https://grin-tech.org/yeastplume > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mimblewimble > Post to : mimblewimble@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mimblewimble > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Best, Catheryne Nicholson CEO and Founder, BlockCypher <http://www.blockcypher.com> *See our latest Grinmint <https://www.grinmint.com/> mining pool software!*
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