Week #43 - æternity Developers and Researchers Update Call

[pegah.chain]

You can have a look at the final grant reports of @karol.chain & @juraj.chain over here which were mentioned during the call:

[Final Report] Karol Skocik - Final grant report for period July - September 2019

This report summarizes the work and activity of a grantee Karol Skocik. July At the begging of the grant, the focus was on Stratum documentation needed for early adopters. For a user providing a pool to the miners, a Stratum operator guide helps to configure and operate it. A user mining for a pool, would need to follow a Stratum client guide . Stratum in a current form is in alpha state - working, tested, but may be unintuitive in couple aspects and would benefit from more users and report…

[Final Report] Juraj Hlista - Final grant report for period August - mid October 2019

This report summarizes the work and activity of a grantee Juraj Hlista. August The main focus of my work was Miner signalled consensus upgrade, which is a mechanism for activation of a new hard-forking consensus based on the outcome of miner signalling. We worked on the design in the first half of the month trying to identify the impact on the current code base and come up with a solution for computing the signalling outcome (PR #385). Next, we focused on the implementation, which involved s…