mimblewimble/grin
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Minimal implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.
19 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 3 stories, 16 comments · first 2017-11-20 · latest 2019-06-19
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Grin (mimblewimble) is also written in Rust https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin
comment by sethgecko · 2019-06-19 · in Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra -
…of tx detail and use the kernel for validation. The grin wiki explains the basis of MW protocol: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m... The original whitepaper is : https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/MimbleWi…
comment by g45y45 · 2019-01-17 · in US academics say their shardy blockchain will be 10X faster than Visa -
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Grin v1.0.0 Releasedstory by kgwxd · 2019-01-15 · 1 comment
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…100 bytes) needs to stay around for each transaction. But we're working on optimizing that as well. https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/grin4bi...
comment by DennisP · 2019-01-04 · in Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain -
More up-to-date discussion at https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/issues/2121
comment by tromp · 2019-01-04 · in Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain -
…to say that this currency is not countable or something like that (how would that even work?) [0] https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/grin4bi...
comment by flafla2 · 2019-01-04 · in Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain -
…in this tl;dr, so read the technical explanation here for more info if it piques your interest: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m...
comment by DylanBohlender · 2019-01-04 · in Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain -
…for a bitcoin-sized blockchain, and potentially optimizable to a few hundreds of megabytes)." https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m... Also, anonymous transactions. Downside: you cannot "send coins to an address" as…
comment by nope96 · 2019-01-04 · in Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain -
…as their viability of currencies (inflation encourages spending, which increases liquidity). [1]: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/grin4bi...
comment by zamalek · 2019-01-04 · in Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain -
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Introduction to MimbleWimble and Grinstory by drexlspivey · 2019-01-01 · 0 comments
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…projects from working on it. To support that... Grin contains a phenomenal amount of cryptography: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin Bulletproofs implementation in rust (small proof sizes): https://github.com/dalek-cryptography/bulletpro…
comment by rargulati · 2018-12-03 · in Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library goes open source -
…open-source and community-driven. There's no ICO, no pre-mine, and no founder's reward. Repo at https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin and more info available at http://grin-tech.org/
comment by CatheryneN · 2018-11-29 · in Mimblewimble/Grin Mainnet is 1/15/19; Grincon U.S. in San Mateo 1/28/19 -
Also of interest are Mountain Merkle Ranges as explained here for instance: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/mmr.md These are append-only trees with height only logarithmic in number of appends.
comment by tromp · 2018-10-30 · in Show HN: CryptoProof – post proofs to the Ethereum blockchain for free -
I wonder if this performs well enough to port cryptocurrency miner software. I hope to find out with https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/issues/806
comment by tromp · 2018-03-18 · in HIP – Convert CUDA to Portable C++ -
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Mimblewimble, a blockchain protocol with great scaleability, privacy,fungibilitystory by sethgecko · 2018-02-05 · 0 comments
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Looks interesting until I got to this section: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m... > In the above example, you had to share your private key (the blinding factor) with Carol. In general, even though private keys…
comment by edf13 · 2018-01-03 · in Founders Fund Makes Bet on Bitcoin -
…while in the process gaining scalability (which everyone already knows is trivially possible). [1] https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m...
comment by runeks · 2018-01-02 · in Founders Fund Makes Bet on Bitcoin -
…proof-of-work such as aeternity [1], and Mimblewimble / grin [2]. [1] https://aeternity.com/ [2] https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin
comment by nathan_f77 · 2017-12-11 · in Bitcoin mining and energy consumption -
…I assume to be) the repo [1], and I think it's actually super cool! Keep up the good work man. [1] https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m...
comment by eat_veggies · 2017-11-20 · in Cryptocurrencies described in four words or less