swfsql
January 7, 2018, 4:57am
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Hi, I thought it would be cool to share this cryptocurrency project being made in Rust (I have no part in it).
It's called Grin and it implements the MimbleWimble transaction protocol. It's very interesting stuff!
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# Introduction to Mimblewimble and Grin
*Read this in other languages: [简体中文](translations/intro_ZH-CN.md), [Español](translations/intro_ES.md), [Nederlands](translations/intro_NL.md), [Русский](translations/intro_RU.md), [日本語](translations/intro_JP.md), [Deutsch](translations/intro_DE.md), [Portuguese](translations/intro_PT-BR.md), [Korean](translations/intro_KR.md).*
Mimblewimble is a blockchain format and protocol that provides
extremely good scalability, privacy and fungibility by relying on strong
cryptographic primitives. It addresses gaps existing in almost all current
blockchain implementations.
Grin is an open source software project that implements a Mimblewimble
blockchain and fills the gaps required for a full blockchain and
cryptocurrency deployment.
The main goal and characteristics of the Grin project are:
* Privacy by default. This enables complete fungibility without precluding
the ability to selectively disclose information as needed.
* Scales mostly with the number of users and minimally with the number of
transactions (<100 byte `kernel`), resulting in a large space saving compared
to other blockchains.
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Poelstra's talk about it:
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