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Cryptocurrency Grin Follows Through With Anticipated July 17 Mainnet Hardfork

17 Jul Cryptocurrency Grin Follows Through With Anticipated July 17 Mainnet Hardfork

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Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Grin has completed the first hardfork so far on its mainnet. The fork occurred at block height 262,080 on July 17, as shown on the Grin block explorer Blockscan.  

According to an official announcement from Grin core dev Quentin Le Sceller, the latest blockchain hardfork is designed to discourage Grin mining through dedicated application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and also includes a new iteration of its “bulletproof rewind scheme” for Grin wallets.

As previously discussed by Cuckoo Cycle author John Tromp, there is reportedly no sign of users deploying ASICs to mine Grin yet; however, Grin’s secondary Proof-of-Work scheme Cuckaroo29 is intended to be continually iterated upon in order to prevent ASIC mining:

“In the 133 days of Grin mining so far, there is no sign of any ASIC mining. We do know of several ASIC products planned to come out in summer. To the extent that any such ASICs have built in support for Cuckaroo29, we want our…

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