![]() This project was named Grin and the testnet launched in Nov 2017.įollowing contributions by many other Harry Potter characters including wand maker Garrick Ollivander, Gryffindor student Seamus Finnigan, weeping ghost Moaning Myrtle and many more, the Grin mainnet launched in November 2019 and has now seen over 3m transactions processed. Shortly after this, another Harry Potter inspired pseudonymous developer Ignotus Peverell (the original owner of the invisibility cloak) posted a partial implementation as a github project: ignopeverell/grin. This garnered some attention and was soon picked up by well know bitcoiner and cryptographer Andrew Poelstra who released a 'refined' version in October 2016. Ī developer under the pen name Tom Elvis Jedusor (the French version of Voldemort) published the MimbleWimble paper on the IRC channel #bitcoin-wizards in July 2016. Let's unpack what this upgrade is looking to bring to the Litecoin network and how it works under the hood. It's named after a tongue tying spell in Harry Potter which stops you revealing secrets. MimbleWimble is a privacy and scalability upgrade which was first deployed on the Grin network in January 2019 and is now planned for activation on the Litecoin network within the upcoming v0.21.X release (included in this upgrade is also Taproot for Litecoin). If you thought the later you're actually a little closer, because this is an upgrade coming to the Litecoin network and it is in fact named after a Harry Potter spell! You may have looked at the title of this piece and thought I'd gone slightly crazy, or that I'd decided to do a left field piece about Harry Potter spells. ![]()
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