Grin after Year 1

Join us to celebrate Grin's first birthday!

Grin (https://grin.mw) implements the Mimblewimble protocol.

• Clean and minimal implementation
• MimbleWimble protocol: great anonymity and scaling characteristics
• Cuckoo Cycle proof of work
• Relatively fast block time (a minute)
• Fixed block reward over time with a decreasing dilution
• Transaction fees are based on the number of Outputs created/destroyed and total transaction size
• Smooth curve for difficulty adjustments

To learn more, read the introduction to MimbleWimble and Grin (https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.md)

SCHEDULE:

• 6:00pm - Mingle
• 6:30pm - Why privacy matters and how Mimblewimble helps
• 7:00pm - Quentin Le Sceller - Grin Open Research Problems
• 7:30pm - Henry Quan - Where in the world is the Grin ASIC?
• 8:00pm - Q & A

About the speakers:

Quentin Le Sceller is an applied cryptography researcher currently working at Blockcypher. He is also a Grin Core Developer.

Henry Quan has 30 years of experience in semiconductors and technology startup companies. He was a Vice President for ATI Technologies in Product Marketing and Corporate Development where he lead Product Management, Marketing, Strategy, Corporate Development and Strategic Relationship functions. He helped grow the company from $50 million in revenues to over $2 billion before being acquired by AMD for $5.5 billion in 2006. After AMD, he was involved in venture capital and smaller startups, several that exited with substantial returns to shareholders. Today, Henry is shaping ePIC to become a formidable semiconductor provider in the growing Blockchain economy.

Pizza and cake courtesy of Pow.re and The Abelian Group
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