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[Lei Ji <lei.ji.privat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Congrats on the smooth launch!
Grin, Keep on rocking :)

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 07:00, Chris McCann <chris.r.mccann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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>>
>> --
>> 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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