Updated to add password.

Next XBG milestone: April 16th -- Brand Identity Update

The updated XBG white paper is now avaialble
https://bitgrin.dev/XBG%20War%20Paper.pdf
Password: xbgin2020

Reminder that our new white paper will be made available tomorrow morning, big changes coming so I hope we can all try to be online to discuss as a community

The updated Bitgrin whitepaper is complete and will be available 48 hours from now. Here's a summary of what to expect:
1. New team members
2. A new philosophy and approach to what Bitgrin is about
3. A new codebase, differentiating us further from Grin
4. Rebranding
5. Alternative proposal to current PoW

We've grown quite a bit this week.
A warm welcome to our many new users! Bitgrin is private digital money, for everyone. If you have not done so yet, this is a reminder to download Kingfish on your Windows 7 or higher PC to get the smoothest experience with Bitgrin. You can download it here:
https://github.com/bitgrin/kingfish/releases/download/v1.1.6/Kingfish.Setup.1.1.6.exe

Yes this is a Grin fork. I'm not sure what you mean about "stealing". It's an open source project.

We are looking to update our Bitgrin wallet with a fresh new look.
UI / UX designers can contact @Pharazen on Discord (https://discord.gg/wu87dfs)
Or Probe on Telegram: https://t.me/BitGrinCommunity

Note: Pay is in XBG tokens (https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitgrin)

More Project Info:

Official Website: https://bitgrin.dev
ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5104608.0

Hey everyone! It's been a year since we've kicked this project off, and I think it's time to recount what we've accomplished so far.

1 - Released the first wallet with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS support for MW with a friendly GUI and easy payment solutions, Kingfish
2 - Updated and corrected security flaws found in the Grin core code (this was pulled back in to the Grin project, which we initially forked from)
3 - Got listed on BitMesh 
4 - Got delisted on BitMesh 
5 - Got listed on Vinex 
6 - Got listed on STEX 
7 - Got listed on Vitex 
8 - Got listed on CITEX 
9 - Mobile wallet support provided by ViteX wallet
10 - Crossed over 1k Twitter followers
11 - Grew our Chinese community to over 1k on the WeChat group
12 - Successfully hard forked (TWICE!) without chain split issues

Congrats to everyone participating, in celebration we're going to also do a little Twitter giveaway (you can find it on @BitGrin Twitter account)

Let's keep this rolling in to 2020 

New website: https://www.bitgrin.dev

Try using the latest kingfish release
https://github.com/bitgrin/kingfish

If that doesn't work remove bg_chain_data from your ~/.bitgrin/main

Other fixes include connecting via a VPN that allows for port forwarding.

Upcoming Kingfish2.0 should fix all those issues.

Someone already helped out with that on discord right?

We’ve been relatively quiet about this, but we’ve been working on a simple to use JavaScript library that will allow developers to easily integrate with BitGrin and build wallets, exchanges, games, or anything they can imagine.
We just hit a milestone with this project and now have nodes working with a single process. In the short term we’ll refactor Kingfish to use this library which will dramatically improve performance, stability, and crush dozens of existing bugs all in one go.
 In the longer term we expect this to become the go-to library for third party developers to build out an ecosystem of high end BitGrin applications, similar to how web3 enables this for Ethereum dApps.

Both the Kingfish update and the BitGrin library is expected to be completed in the next week or two. We’ll make the library available on npm for all to use freely.

That is true, mining at this point is not as user-friendly as we want it to be.
Keep in mind this is still very early days and its and miner adoption is definitely a priority for Bitgrin, we are working on infrastructure so it's seamless

It's probably a failed transfer, try to do a wallet check.
Your coins are most likely in your wallet. (because of how MimbleWimble works, they might not appear in the UI without unwrapping)


We are more active on twitter, discord, and telegram.
I will try to make more time to respond here, thank you for reminding me

Hi everyone,

just updated the ANN with our roadmap, which outlines our goals for BitGrin in the short and midterm.

Two major topics are the interactive transactions (both sender and receiver need to be online) and the GPU/Asic transition of the PoW algorithm.

We believe we can create an infrastructure that doesnt force both sender and receiver to be online so that users can transact in BitGrin like on any other cryptocurrency.

The second major topic is based on our believe in decentralisation:
Asics are specialized mining hardware with costs starting at thousands of dollars and thus increasing the barrier of entry for mining by a huge margin.
For better decentralisation we want to keep the barrier of entry for mining as low as possible, which could mean that we will keep the share between asics and gpu blocks at a certain ratio and do not transition fully to asics.

GUI wallet is now internally tested and operational.

You will be able to download the latest version in about 10hours ( countdown on www.bitgrin.io )
If you have any questions to the development team, or about MimbleWimble in general, don't hesitate to ask here.