Groestlcoin 8th Anniversary Development Update

4 min readMar 22, 2022

8 Years. Groestlcoin has been in constant active development, providing development updates and enhancements every 3 months for 8 years. There aren’t too many cryptocurrencies that can say the same. Groestlcoin has been there through much of the Cryptocurrency rollercoaster journey and shows no signs of letting up.

Historic Milestones

There are just too many milestones to put into this article. Fortunately, with the help of esteemed cryptocurrency Chris P Thompson, Groestlcoin has commissioned an independent book documenting its current history. We have an exclusive PDF version to show you here: https://groestlcoin.org/GroestlcoinHistoryBook14032022.pdf but physical copies can be purchased from here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09W4BY6MJ

Recent Announcements

The past few months have seen several new retailers accepting GRS as payment for their goods. Many more will be announced very soon so stay tuned!

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Today’s Announcements

Groestlcoin History Book

As previously mentioned, the Groestlcoin developers were approached with an opportunity to have a history book developed, showcasing the highlights and history of the cryptocurrency. After months of hard work, it is finally finished and published on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09W4BY6MJ! A PDF copy can be found here: https://groestlcoin.org/GroestlcoinHistoryBook14032022.pdf

GRSPay v1.4.7.0

Click here for more information, how-to guides and learn how to accept GRS via GRSPay here

What’s New?

UX/UI: Easier onboarding
UX/UI: New navigation
Greenfield: Add a missingPermission field to 403 errors
Support for new TLS version of SMTP server
Greenfield: Added field “StoreId” to a Payment Request
Greenfield: Can create a payment request without specifying currency (would then use store’s default currency)
Add login code, for easy login to GRSPay Server via a mobile device
Add LNUrl Auth support as second factor auth
Batch unarchive invoices
Ability to bump fees of transactions and invoices via CPFP
Add ability to add description to pull payment
Greenfield: Can add store guest/owner to a store
Plugins: Expose file service
Plugins: Allow writing Greenfield API endpoints

Groestlcoin Electrum-GRS 4.2 Desktop & Android Update

Click here for more information, download links and more for Electrum-GRS

What’s New? (Android-specific)

Kivy GUI:
— show network setup on the first start before wallet creation
— add “Child Pays For Parent” option
— improved locale handling

What’s New? (Server & Desktop Client)

macOS builds are now codesigned and notarized
The minimum python version was increased to 3.8
Lightning:
— redesigned MPP splitting algorithm
— trampoline: implement multi-trampoline MPP
— implement option_shutdown_anysegwit, and allow dust limits below 546 gro
— implement option_channel_type
— implement modern closing negotiation
Improve support for “lightning:” URIs on all platforms
Qt GUI:
— add setting “show amounts with msat precision”
— add setting “add thousand separators to groestlcoin amounts”
CLI/RPC:
— implement Unix sockets and make them the default
— add “bumpfee” command
Hardware wallets:
— trezor: bump trezorlib to 0.13
— ledger: support “Ledger Nano S Plus”
Library:
— added support for sighash types beside “ALL”
— signmessage: also accept Trezor-type sigs for segwit addrs
— network: make request timeout configurable
— paytomany (onchain txout batching) now allows multiple max(“!”)
amounts with specified weights
Binary builds
— AppImage: changed base image from ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04
Integration of Cirrus CI and Github Actions
Lots of other minor bug fixes and usability improvements.

Groestlcoin Esplora Update

What is Groestlcoin Esplora? And how to use it.

What’s New?

Supports Taproot!
Signet support!
Overhauled UI design for a cleaner user experience.

Socials

For help and support with any Groestlcoin products, or just for a discussion or chat, please visit our social channels where the community will be more than welcome to help!