A week in Ethereum Cat Herders — 25th Feb 2019

Another week of Ethereum Cat Herders is here. It was mixed with sorrow and joy. Perhaps you must know that Afri Schoedon, lead developer of Parity and one of the founder members of ECH group decided to quit Ethereum and move on. He was actively involved into Ethereum blockchain development, coordinating hard-forks, building testnets, and supporting the community. As much as his decision is respected, we can’t overlook the pressure he was put into that lead to any such decision. Wishing him good luck for future, I hope we continue to build.

Welcome back Lane Rettig

Lane Rettig is back after ten days with @VipassanaOrg. A lot of questions were asked about accountability and leadership in his absence. Hudson Jameson organized an AMA about Ethereum Leadership and Accountability. There is also an interview of Lane explaining the overall management of decentralized network.

Ethereum Cat Herders Meeting #6

· Agenda

· Audio / Video

· Minutes (thanks @DBrettRobertson)

It is decided to have ECH call every once in two weeks. Next meeting is Proposed on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019; time is 14:00 GMT. Agenda.

ProgPoW

· ProgPOW auditing is proposed to be funded by raising of funds (about 100k USD) via Gitcoin and Bounties.

· Fund raising around ProgPOW:

Fund raising for Andrea and team for ProgPoW full stack integration at Gitcoin. He can also be tipped at https://github.com/AndreaLanfranchi.

The grant for the 3rd party analysis at bounties.network for ProgPoW Analysis. (Thanks @lookfirst for sharing).

· ECH is still receiving feedback from stakeholders which may feed into the Audit.

· Another well written document to provide overview — Ethereum ProgPoW Explained.

· Progress Update #1 shared by IfDefElse. Highlights:

The testnet is almost up to block 250,000 and has a number of miners, pools, and clients testing.

AMD bug discovered. Members of the ethminer team and IfDefElse are actively engaged with AMD engineers to understand the failure and how to work around it.

Preparation for Constantinople 2.0 (Constantinople / St. Petersburg Upgrade)

Hudson Jameson shared a post on upgrade announcement (FAQ). Please ensure you have latest version of your Ethereum client.

· Latest geth client (v1.8.23)

· Latest Parity client (v2.2.10-stable)

· Latest Harmony client (v2.3 Build 74)

· Latest Pantheon client (v0.9.1)

· Latest EthereumJS VM client (v2.6.0)

· Latest version of Ethereum Wallet/Mist (v0.11.1)

Amberdata Constantinople & Petersburg Countdown To block Confirmation.

Moloch DAO

MolochDAO White Paper on using a grants DAO to fund public goods is released. ECH may work together to write up a general overview of how Moloch DAO might benefit the Ethereum Community.

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