Beam Mimblewimble

Mimblewimble White Paper
https://scalingbitcoin.org/papers/mimblewimble.txt
https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/mimblewimble.txt

[1] https://people.xiph.org/~greg/confidential_values.txt
[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
[3] https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf
[4] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1098.pdf
[5] https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/horasyuanmouton-owas.pdf
[6] http://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf
[7] http://fr.harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Sortilège_de_Langue_de_Plomb
[8] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=281848.0

Beam Mimblewimble 

Mimblewimble Implementation
Scalable confidential cryptocurrency

https://www.beam.mw/

Position Paper
https://docs.beam.mw/BEAM_Position_Paper_v0.2.2.pdf

BEAM is a next generation confidential cryptocurrency based on an elegant and innovative Mimblewimble protocol. Things that make BEAM special include: • Users have complete control over privacy - a user decides which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control over his personal data in accordance to his will and applicable laws. • Confidentiality without penalty - in BEAM confidential transactions do not cause bloating of the blockchain, avoiding excessive computational overhead or penalty on performance or scalability while completely concealing the transaction value. • No trusted setup required. • Blocks are mined using Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm. • Limited emission using periodic halving with total amount of coins ~250 million. • No addresses are stored in the blockchain - no information whatsoever about either the sender or the receiver of a transaction is stored in the blockchain. • Superior scalability through compact blockchain size - using the “cut-through” feature of Mimblewimble makes the BEAM blockchain orders of magnitude smaller than any other blockchain implementation. • BEAM supports many transaction types such as escrow transactions, time locked transactions, atomic swaps and more. • No premine. No ICO. Backed by a treasury, emitted from every block during the first five years • Implemented from scratch in C++ by a team of professional developers.

Beam: Scalable Confidential Cryptocurrency. A Mimblewimble implementation. GitHub

https://github.com/BeamMW/beam


BEAM, Interview with Alex Romanov, The CTO of The New Mimblewimble Coin, Oct 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YgCozBtkqk

Beam Tel Aviv Meetup, Aug 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5SezGGnjdE


Tel Aviv Meetup - Beam - 8.8.18 - Alex Romanov (CTO) Presentation, Sep 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03HJk9RuY7M


ZK0x02 - MimbleWimble implementation in BEAM - Vladislav Gelfer (Beam), Sep 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX9jQg9tuQc

BlockchainUA. Anatol Sevostyan, Sep 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRrEOI4nXh0


Zk0x02 - An intro to Zcash and zkSNARKs - Ariel Gabizon (Zcash), Sep 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx4cIkCY2EA

Bitcoin Q&A: MimbleWimble and Dandelion, Andreas M. Antonopoulos
aantonop
Sep 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjDJGTpK_lE

What is the story behind MimbleWimble? What is Grin? What is a Dandelion transaction relay, as described in BIP156, and how does it improve the anonymity of the Bitcoin network? CLARIFICATION/ CORRECTION: At 1:14, I talk the origins of MimbleWimble. The PDF was submitted to the Bitcoin research IRC channel on August 2nd, 2016. The pseudonymous author used the name "Tom Elvis Jedusor," which is the French version of Voldemort's real name. I also say that the name "MimbleWimble" was referencing the name of a spell from Harry Potter, which is the Tongue-Tying Curse and prevents someone from speaking about (not "seeing") something: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Ton... At 6:08, I was unable to list the names of the team members behind the Dandelion proposal. They are Giulia Fanti, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Surya Bakshi, Bradley Denby, Shruti Bhargava, Andrew Miller and Pramod Viswanath (researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and the University of Illinois). Read the MimbleWimble paper here: https://scalingbitcoin.org/papers/mim... Andrew Poelstra's MimbleWimble presentation: https://youtu.be/aHTRlbCaUyM More information on BIP-156: https://github.com/gfanti/bips/blob/m... The BIP-156 pull request: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pu... NOTE: As usual, this video is intended as an educational resource on topics such as blockchain protocols (i.e. MimbleWimble) and not as an endorsement of specific implementations (e.g. Grin). These questions were part of the July and (late) August monthly live Patreon Q&A sessions, which took place on July 28th and September 1st 2018 respectively. If you want early-access to talks and a chance to participate in the monthly live Q&As with Andreas, become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/aantonop RELATED: Worse than Useless: Financial Surveillance - https://youtu.be/n4F-h4xuXMk Money as a System-of-Control - https://youtu.be/FyK4P7ZdOK8 The Stories We Tell About Money - https://youtu.be/ONvg9SbauMg Bitcoin: Privacy, Identity, Surveillance and Money - https://youtu.be/Vcvl5piGlYg ADISummit: Self-Sovereign Identity Panel - https://youtu.be/DZbyiJqKT8c How is fungibility tied to privacy? - https://youtu.be/VuI-8EwqIS8 Public keys versus addresses - https://youtu.be/8es3qQWkEiU Re-using addresses - https://youtu.be/4A3urPFkx8g Coin selection and privacy - https://youtu.be/3Ck683CQGAQ Airdrop coins and privacy implications - https://youtu.be/JHRnqJJ0rhc Wallet design and mass adoption - https://youtu.be/WbZX6BDZJHc How do I choose a wallet? - https://youtu.be/tN6b62sEpsY Using paper wallets - https://youtu.be/cKehFazo8Pw Exchanges, identity, and surveillance - https://youtu.be/TVFy8xXfxAA The price of losing privacy - https://youtu.be/2G8IgiLbT_4 Layered scaling and privacy - https://youtu.be/4w-bjUhpf_Q Lightning and onion routing - https://youtu.be/D-nKuInDq6g What is the roadmap? - https://youtu.be/5Eoj_sKyC90 SegWit and fork research - https://youtu.be/OorLoi01KEE MimbleWimble and Schnorr signatures - https://youtu.be/qloq75ekxv0 Schnorr signatures and the privacy roadmap - https://youtu.be/JeJzwZgxF50 Block capacity and embedded data - https://youtu.be/JXt0v54nojI Mixing services - https://youtu.be/rKoMvOH4zoY Borderless money - https://youtu.be/EZh1-ZqffOw


ZK0x02 - MimbleWimble implementation in BEAM - Vladislav Gelfer (Beam)
https://youtu.be/EX9jQg9tuQc

MimbleWimble is a very capable protocol, which, after being published by an anonymous cryptographer 2 years ago, drew a lot of attention. In this talk Vladislav discusses MimbleWimble in-depth, argue why it's a sane payment system and how capable it is, and what can be built on top of it. With all that said, to build a truly anonymous payment system there are many important design decisions, and challenges are yet to be solved. The Zero Knowledge Summit - ZK0x02 - happened in Berlin on Sept 5 2018 as part of Blockchain Week Berlin. This event was produced by the Zero Knowledge Podcast (zeroknowledge.fm) and focused on zero knowledge topics, latest zkSNARK applications and privacy. The full program could be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... To keep in touch about the event and the podcast, please connect with us on twitter: https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm

episode of Inchained with Alexander Zaidelson, CEO of Beam. 

Beam https://www.beam.mw/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqJIGHMlVnQ

@ResearchCircle (@circlepay )

Project Lumini by BEAM and @elpinguinofrio is also fascinating. It connects BEAM to ETH and ETH-based tokens can be represented as confidential assets. 

This feature would be very interesting and beneficial because the current stablecoins don't have privacy.