$82,694.00
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1.28%$1.16
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11.94%$1.00
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Litecoin, the world’s eight biggest cryptocurrency, is in the throes of introducing experimental new privacy features. This is its MimbleWimble protocol implementation, initially proposed back in November 2019, that aims to add opt-in privacy for those using the network.
Today, David Burkett, the developer in charge of this integration, has provided an update on its implementation. He revealed that big progress has been made, and the initial code will be complete and ready for review on March 15.
“There are still a ton of ways we can (and will) continue to improve the MWEB code, in particular around syncing, but most of what remains is not required for initial launch…I will be submitting the code for review on March 15th,” tweeted Burkett.
Litecoin was one of the early names to establish itself on the market and has long been championed for its cheap and fast transactions.
However, privacy is one of the features that the Silver to Bitcoin’s Gold—as Litecoin is often referred to—has arguably been lacking. In order to tackle the issue, developers proposed allowing users to access opt-in privacy by conducting MimbleWimble transactions on an Extension Blocks-style side-chain.
It’s a big year for Bitcoin spin-off Litecoin. The cryptocurrency—often described as the silver to Bitcoin’s gold—celebrates its tenth anniversary in October. Recently, Decrypt sat down with Litecoin’s founder Charlie Lee, an MIT graduate and Google veteran, to find out just what’s so great about the cryptocurrency he designed. We’ve boiled his answers down into nice handy facts. 1.In nine years, Litecoin had zero downtime Bitcoin and Ethereum, the top two ranking cryptocurrencies by market c...
Extension Blocks were originally proposed in 2013 as a soft fork scaling solution for Bitcoin. The idea was focused on enabling better fungibility, which means that each unit of the cryptocurrency has the same value as any other unit, whilst minimizing the potential impact on the existing wallet ecosystem. It was eventually rejected in favor of the Segregated Witness (SegWit) upgrade. MimbleWimble, in turn, is a privacy-focused protocol that has real-life implementations in cryptocurrencies such as Grin and Beam.
Litecoin’s MimbleWimble implementation project has been in development for over 12 months now and even saw the launch of the MimbleWimble Extension Blocks (MWEB) testnet last September.
In his new post on Litecointalk, Burkett has drawn attention to MingleJingle, a new proposal by Tevador, the lead developer of RandomX, the mining algorithm used in Monero. RandomX was activated on Monero’s mainnet in 2019 with the objective of keeping the network protected from ASIC mining while providing a high level of security.
MingleJingle is a redesign of the original MimbleWimble protocol offering fully non-interactive transactions, which means that the sender only needs to know the recipient's address consisting of 2 public keys.
I'll be posting monthly status updates detailing progress on the LTC MW EB (YAY acronyms). This is geared toward those interested in LTC development, but will also talk a lot about Grin++ changes, so it may be interesting to Grinners as well. https://t.co/hTpUbWSPI6
— @davidburkett@bitcoinhackers.org (@DavidBurkett38) December 1, 2019
Other important features include addresses that are not linkable to wallets, as well as transactions outputs that are not linkable to addresses.
According to Burkett, Tevador’s extensive experience with Monero stealth addresses made it possible to introduce a number of improvements to the project and to improve MWEB addressing and output structure.
Adding more tweaks to the overall mechanism of concealing transaction details, Burkett said that the code is now ready for the new testnet. He added that it will contain all of the consensus, P2P, and wallet code necessary for supporting MWEB.
“The only thing it will be missing is the activation code, which I will add after the reviews and audits are all finished,” he said.
Earlier, Burkett said he hoped to see the MimbleWimble upgrade activated on Litecoin's mainnet at some point in 2021, provided miners and node operators signal their support. With the latest progress update it looks like that might just happen.
The Babylon Foundation, an entity tied to the Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon, released tokenomic details for its BABY token Thursday—and revealed an airdrop for early users. The Foundation will provide 6% or 600 million BABY, the Babylon Genesis Network’s native governance token, to five reward groups and early supporters as part of its airdrop. The vast majority of tokens (585 million) set aside for the airdrop campaign will be provided to those who have staked Bitcoin with Babylon. “Tokens...
Paul Atkins, President Trump’s nominee to become the next Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, passed a key vote from the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Thursday. Following the 13-11 vote, in which all Democrats on the Committee opposed Trump’s pick, Atkins’ nomination will now proceed to the Senate floor for a full vote. Atkins is an SEC veteran who previously served as an agency commissioner under President George W. Bush. He is widely expected to institute favorable policies for...
Monday marked the end of a painful quarter for Ethereum, as the network’s native asset’s so-called burn rate fizzled amid one of its worst performances in recent memory. The metric, which tracks the rate of Ethereum removed from circulation, recently hit its lowest level since August 2021, a nagging concern among investors that’s “weighed on Ethereum’s market performance,” according to the crypto market maker Wintermute. Last week, around 53 ETH was burned per day, the firm said. Meanwhile, ETH’...
