Rootstock Developer Praises Privacy-Focused Solution Mimblewimble, Plans to Integrate It
Rootstock (RSK) developer and Coinspect security consultant Sergio Lerner praised the development of privacy-focused proposal Mimblewimble after revealing his plans to integrate it into Rootstock 2.0. At the Scaling Bitcoin conference in Milan, Italy, a variety of scaling and privacy-related solutions were introduced with a common theme to “make Bitcoin great again.” What is Mimblewimble? On the first day of the event, Blockstream and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell’s Confidential Transaction-based and CoinJoin-inspired Mimblewimble was introduced as a solution for the enhancement....
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A slimming down of the bitcoin protocol called Mimblewimble generates a blinding factor that can prove ownership of bitcoins, making private keys unnecessary, and offering a solution to the need to balance bitcoin privacy against fungibility while also improving scalability, according to a white paper that appeared mysteriously on a bitcoin research site authored by a person using a pseudonym, according to Nasdaq. Privacy and fungibility are at odds in bitcoin because anyone can trace transactions over the blockchain, and as the number of transactions increases, the verification cost can....
Privacy opt-ins are coming to Litecoin even as regulators continue to scrutinize anonymity-boosting protocols. After two years of development, Litecoin (LTC) has finally launched its highly anticipated Mimblewimble upgrade, opening the door to more privacy-oriented transactions on the network. Mimblewimble’s integration into Litecoin came by way of the Mimblewimble Extension Block, also known as MWEB, which allows the network’s users to opt-in to confidential transactions. MWEB lead developer David Burkett, who has been sponsored by the Litecoin Foundation, said the upgrade improves....
Sidechains have been the talk of the town in Bitcoin Land lately, and a few of them are starting to make mainstream media headlines. One organization like the Rootstock team is implementing the Turing capabilities of Ethereum and the power of the Bitcoin blockchain within its framework. With Rootstock, the protocol uses sidechain abilities to integrate 2.0 applications to its user base with Bitcoin as its fuel. Diego Gutierrez Zaldivar, co-founder of Rootstock believes Bitcoin is mature and the ideal currency to use with its system. The team is currently in talks with The World Bank Group....
Mimblewimble is a spell that literally ties the target's tongue to keep them from exposing information on a given subject. It is well-known among Harry Potter enthusiasts. What is Mimblewimble? Mimblewimble is a privacy-oriented decentralized protocol that uses a novel way of structuring and storing transactions on the blockchain. It was designed and introduced by an anonymous developer who went by the name Tom Elvis Jedusor, who was a French counterpart for “Voldemort” in mid-2016.How does Mimblewimble work?Taking its name from the Harry Potter books series’ well-known tongue tying spell....
The two exchanges cited Korea's Act on the Reporting and Use of Specific Financial Transaction Information, a law that requires crypto exchanges to put in place KYC and AML systems. The recent privacy-focused MimbleWimble upgrade on the Litecoin (LTC) blockchain has prompted two of Korea's largest crypto exchanges to issue investment warnings about the fifth-largest cryptocurrency.Bithumb and Upbit, which together account for the majority of trading volume in South Korea, released statements on Monday, advising investors about the risks associated with the privacy-enhancing upgrade.....