"Grin" TAG

Grin is a cryptocurrency built on MimbleWimble, a privacy-focused protocol leveraging elliptic curve cryptography and an Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) model to enhance the privacy of transactions. Led by a predominantly anonymous team that contributes to the open-source codebase, Grin relies on donations to fund development. For a comprehensive explanation and commentary, read the Grin...

MimbleWimble Overview Grin builds on the MimbleWimble protocol, and the project’s unique contributions are best appreciated in contrast with MimbleWimble’s base features. MimbleWimble is a blockchain protocol published July 2016 as a text file posted on the #bitcoin-wizards IRC channel by the pseudonymous ‘Tom Elvis Jedusor.’ The paper combined existing research in novel ways, using...