For those in Berlin who are interested in the MimbleWimble protocol and Grin cryptocurrency projects.
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.
http://grin-tech.org/
https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin
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 modestly with the number of transactions, keeping only a ~100 byte `kernel' for historical transactions, resulting in a large space savings compared to other blockchains.
* Strong and proven cryptography. MimbleWimble only relies on Elliptic Curve Cryptography which has been tried and tested for decades.
* Design simplicity that makes it easy to audit and maintain over time.
* Community driven, using an asic-resistant mining algorithm (Cuckoo Cycle) encouraging mining decentralization.
