Tag Archives: Mimblewimble

Litecoin relaunches the MimbleWimble testnet as Europol targets privacy protocols

[ad_2][ad_1] Litecoin (LTC) has relaunched its MimbleWimble testnet, a protocol designed to improve privacy and obfuscate the traceability of distributed ledger transactions. MimbleWimble is a modified implementation of the proof-of-work algorithm behind Bitcoin (BTC) in which blocks appear as one large transaction, preventing the identification of individual transaction-related inputs and …

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Bug in Beam Mimblewimble Wallet Caused UTXO Conflicts, Brief Halt in Blockchain

[ad_2][ad_1] / Latest / 2019/01 / bug-in-beam-mimblewimble-wallet-Caused-utxo-conflicts-brief-halt-in-blockchain / The Beam Mimblewimble blockchain, one of two recently released implementations of the Mimblewimble privacy protocol (the other being Grin), briefly ceased to function yesterday (Jan 21). Beam Privacy, the chain's developer team, have fixed the problem and issued a clutch patch. The …

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Beam announces the "critical" vulnerability in Crypto's Wallet by Mimblewimble

[ad_2][ad_1] The Beam team, a recently published privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, announced Wednesday that a "critical vulnerability" was discovered in its software wallet. Disseminate information from their official chirping account, Beam invited users to immediately uninstall the Beam Wallet application and download a patch version of the application from their website again. …

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