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[Chris McCann <chris.r.mccann@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <
catheryne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.peverell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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>
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> 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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