MimbleWimble as an idea was released anonymously. It's a block chain with PoW but almost nothing else.
Grin is an in-progress implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol. Many characteristics of MimbleWimble and Grin are still undefined. Please read our introduction to MimbleWimble and Grin
Documents about MimbleWimble, its implementations, and more.
We have:
- introduction material
- technical documentation
- The Wiki, open for all to edit and improve! Has things like
We're doing early testing in Testnet1 with grin, the rust implementation.
Join us! Try grin on Testnet
Please read how to contribute and be aware of our code of conduct.
- Chat: Gitter.
- Mailing list: see archives or join the ~MimbleWimble team and click there to request to join the mailing list.
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Grin wants to be a minimal implementation.
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It wants to be inclusive and welcoming for all walks of life, without judgement.
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Grin aims high, to bring improvements for all, without harming others.
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The Grin implementation's maintainers may have strong opinions to stay lean and simple, without diminishing others.
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We believe in pull requests, data and scientific research.
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We do not take interest in unfounded beliefs.
Tom Elvis Jedusor for the first formulation of MimbleWimble.
Andrew Poelstra for his related work and improvements.
John Tromp for the Cuckoo Cycle proof of work.
J.K. Rowling for making it despite extraordinary adversity.
Apache License v2.0.