Course 5:
Mimblewimble basics

Course5 Mimblewimble

Mimblewimble is a blockchain protocol that focuses on privacy through the implementation of confidential transactions. It enables a greatly simplified blockchain in which all spent transactions can be pruned, resulting in a much smaller blockchain footprint and efficient base node validation. The blockchain consists only of block-headers, remaining Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXO) with their range proofs and an unprunable transaction kernel per transaction.

Audience: Developers
Time to complete: 2 hours

Modules

1 hour

Module 1:
Mimblewimble - the white paper

Mimblewimble is a privacy-oriented, cryptocurrency technology. The white paper was dropped into a cryptography mailing list by an anonymous author, Tom Elvis Jedusor, on July 19, 2016. The paper describes a blockchain protocol that uses a novel way of combining transactions to improve privacy and scalability.