Behind MimbleWimble

The head scratching tech that has the crypto industry abuzz

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Jordan Clifford

Nov 28, 2018

“Mimblewimble, which prevents your opponent from accurately casting their next spell.”

— Gilderoy Lockhart [src]

Few ideas within crypto have garnered as much attention as the MimbleWimble proposal. It gets its name from the incantation of the Tongue Tying Curse in the Harry Potter universe, a spell used to prevent speaking on a certain topic. MimbleWimble is a novel protocol that works to improve privacy and scalability for its users.

It was first proposed to the #bitcoin-wizards IRC channel on August 1st, 2016 by pseudonymous author Tom Elvis Jedusor (Voldemort’s real name in the French Harry Potter). The original proposal is a succinct one. MimbleWimble takes the main architecture of Bitcoin, removes script, adds Confidential Transactions and the idea of cut-through and the result is a highly compressible and opaque blockchain.

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