Emergency Reading: MimbleWimble

A brief history:

In 1997, Alastor Moody set up curses to protect the Order of the Phoenix headquarters at 12 Grimmauld Place. One of these curses was this spell. It was so placed to prevent Severus Snape from revealing the area's location to Lord Voldemort, as the properties of the Fidelius Charm protecting the house made Snape a Secret-Keeper when Albus Dumbledore died.

WAIT SORRY THAT’s the wrong Mimble Wimble 😅

Jokes aside, this Sunday we will be diving into Mimble Wimble and Grin.

PLEASE READ AHEAD OF TIME OR YOU WILL BE LOST.

That being said, the goal of this is to learn and help each other, so bring questions and don’t expect to know everything!

We are going to dive deep, covering exciting topics such as:

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography
• Range Proofs
• Confidential Transactions
• Cuckoo Cycle

Recommended Readings:

• Whitepaper: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/mimblewimble.pdf
• Intro: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.md
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography

• http://andrea.corbellini.name/2015/05/17/elliptic-curve-cryptography-a-gentle-introduction/
• https://hackernoon.com/what-is-the-math-behind-elliptic-curve-cryptography-f61b25253da3

• Confidential Transactions (Greg Maxwell)
  https://www.elementsproject.org/elements/confidential-transactions/
• Confidential Assets
  https://blockstream.com/bitcoin17-final41.pdf
• Range Proofs
  https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/rangeproofs.md
• Cuckoo Cycle Proof of Work
  https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/059.pdf

Website: https://grin-tech.org
Repo: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin
Chat room: https://gitter.im/grin_community/Lobby