Congrats on the launch! Excited to see the ecosystem grow and see you all at grincon.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 6:45 PM Catheryne Nicholson < cather...@blockcypher.com> wrote: > 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!* > > > > -- > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mimblewimble > > Post to : mimblewimble@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mimblewimble > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Sent from iPhone
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