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Grin derives from Gringotts, a goblin bank in the Harry Potter series. Goblins are a very common theme in books about wizards and I'm positive they are not copyrighted.

Here's more info about it: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Gringotts_Wizarding_Bank

Also please join the Grin emailing list - there's a debate about logo happening right now: https://launchpad.net/~mimblewimble

Easier solution to bypass port forward:

Download ngrok from here https://ngrok.com/

Run it from the command line ./ngrok http 3415

Give the url that is displayed to the exchange. Should be something like https://xxxxx.ngrok.io

Your listener should be already running on 0.0.0.0 i.e grin-wallet listen -e before all that

Keep in mind that you are trusting ngrok to not man-in-the-middle you but at least it's over https and your ISP could do that anyway (it can't now)

Alternatevly if you are on windows download Grin++ v0.5.3 or later that come with ngrok support and takes care of all that for you. head over to the receive panel and you will find your ngrok address (keep in mind it changes every time you restart it)

I'm not involved in the project, but I'm following it's development.

Grin is a MimbleWimble implementation. Why possible sidechain? Some Bitcoin developers are working on this project and they probably don't want it to become a bitcoin competitor - instead it could be a sidechain that would provide anonymity. But nothing has been set in stone yet, so it's hard to say what will be. One option is that Grin blockchain would support both a native token (probably named Grin) and in the future a "pegged" Bitcoin. We'll see :)

If you'd like to follow the project more closely, sign up for their emailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mimblewimble

Also follow their GitHub: https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin/blob/master/README.md

Grin is going to be mined with GPU's, at least in the beginning.

There are other coins which have established GPU mining farms (or https://www.nicehash.com/). How does Grin deal with attacks stemming from evil farms pointing their hashing power at Grin's chain? (I guess the question could be wider; how does any coin deal with that?)

https://plot.ly/~Bobby_Digital/1/#/

The emission rate of grin isn’t that much different than bitcoin. It’s identical for the first couple of years and then it’s slightly higher after that.

4 years exactly the same. After 8 years it’s 12.5% vs 8.3%. Eventually bitcoin stops and grin is 1-2%. It’s not going to be the deciding factor of whether grin succeeds or not. If grin has a market cap similar to bitcoin at any point in the future, people buying today will be very very happy no matter how much inflation there is.

Example. 10 years from now grin has market cap equal to current bitcoin market cap (10 years in). The price of grin would be around $200. That’s about a 50x increase. The emission rate absolutely won’t decide whether or not this is a “store of value” or if it is successful. Certainly there is also a world where crypto is much more successful in 10 years than today, and grin could be much bigger than bitcoin is today. (It could also be 0). The emission rate won’t decide which of those happens.

For anyone who doesn't know and might be interested, check out the decentralized exchange, bisq. https://bisq.network/ Definitely different from using a "regular" exchange but I used it and I'm glad I'm familiar with the experience now.

Bisq is legit. I did a couple trades there already. But takes a little more work than a regular exchange and has a higher price right now. Probably because people don't trust the others?

Grin++ comes bundled with ngrok (unfortunately not in the mac version) which overcomes the need to port forward. For mac you can download it manually.

1. Download it from https://ngrok.com/download
2. unzip it
3. Open the terminal app and type cd Downloads (or wherever you unzipped it)
4. type ./ngrok http 3415
5. You will see a screen with an address, something like https://xxxxxx.ngrok.io this is your temporary address.
6. Without closing the terminal and with your wallet running, give this address to the exchange to withdraw.

I can confirm that this PSU works with the G1-mini: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083KFN5YJ/ref=cm\_sw\_em\_r\_mt\_dp\_YMXJC7YBWAF9AM8PSR0Y?\_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

This PSU will work too (plug and play), but I advise trying to find one with a higher capacity (150W or more): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MXXXBV8/ref=cm\_sw\_em\_r\_mt\_dp\_XSN1RV0A6EV04HB1BC1J

I went by the information available on Google Play. There, there is no website, no real person's name and even if there were, with a completely new app it's hard to verify.

If it is open source, somebody who is not the main contributor might have jumped the gun and released it on Google Play - with bad intentions.

I would trust an app more if an established website linked to it. If David has a personal website, he could add a link to the app on Google Play on his there and also link to that website from Google Play.

I'm not sure either, but you can run it on a rasp pi, and my phone is more powerful than that, and runs similar OS, so I assume so.

I'm not trying to say it is actually currently possible, eg the software exists, because I don't know, for BTC or GRIN. It is obviously technically possible.

I'm assuming in my answer that it is currently possible to run either a BTC and a GRIN node on a phone, and saying that if they were both running the same volume of transactions, the GRIN node would be far more resource hungry than the similar BTC one on everything except storage, but storage is not the bottleneck.

EDIT: seems it is currently possible

EDIT2:

>And it would use more battery and storage than grin, by a long shot.

You mean currently? I mean, of course, anything that has a shitload more transaction volume is going to use more resources, I am comparing GRIN to BTC technically, so that assumes that both systems are providing equal throughput. If I spun up a fork of BTC chain where I am the only user, I could run it on a 386, not very useful to compare.