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[Robert Kowalski <robert@mega.space>]

Congratulations on the launch and huge effort!

Looking forward to US GrinCon in a few days see you here. :)

Robert
robert@mega.space
Mega.Space @ Silicon Valley I Singapore

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:51 PM PK Rasam <pkrasam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Happy Friday!
>
> A hearty congratulations from the other side of the pond (in southern
> hemisphere) to the entire GRIN team (core & extended).
>
> Yes I was up @ 2:00 am MST witnessing the launch execute and unfold so
> well.
>
> We have a small yet very strong community here, who are equally keen, very
> excited about the prospects of GRIN and are currently supporting the
> network by contributing their GPUs & gps (via GRINMINT).
>
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> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 16:59, 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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