The Litecoin Mission, has introduced it’s working with David Burkett, a Grin++ developer, so as to add MimbleWimble help to the Litecoin community. Litecoin Founder and Govt Director of the Litecoin Basis Charlie Lee, made the announcement by way of twitter saying:

Updates on MimbleWimble progress: @davidburkett38, the principle developer of Grin++, is now working with @ecurrencyhodler and I on the design. We’ve been ironing out the mechanism of getting LTC out and in of MW/EB. Additionally found out methods to deal with MW charges in a clear manner.

MimbleWimble (MW) is a protocol change that allows a handful of advantages, most notably confidential transactions (CT) and non interactive coin joins. Those that decide in to make use of MW on Litecoin would have their transaction values hidden and be combined amongst different community members, making it tougher for third events to trace and log exercise.

Grin++ is a fork of Grin the unique MimbleWimble protocol. It has, based on the tasks github, a heavier give attention to safety, velocity, reliability, modularity and scalability alongside the principle upstream department.

MW would supply a extra complete repair to the fungabilty drawback than CT alone, one thing Lee views as the one property of sound cash that’s lacking from Bitcoin & Litecoin. By leaping into MW it seems the staff wish to kill two birds with one stone and by utilising extension blocks (EB) we might additionally see a community capability enhance however it isn’t sure how excessive the staff will set this.

Burkett pro-actively reached out providing his providers following conversations over gradual MW progress. He responded to the announcement by thanking Lee and stating that his was trying ahead to working collectively to convey monetary privateness to all. He additional went on to put in writing his personal weblog submit clarifying his intentions behind the collaboration stating:

I’m only a crypto-anarchist who occurs to spend his spare time creating an alternate node and pockets for Grin. My final aim is monetary privateness for everybody, and I might love nothing greater than to see mimblewimble on Bitcoin itself. Getting MW added to Litecoin appeared like the apparent subsequent step.

Lee in return for Burkett’s work has supplied a 1.5BTC donation to the Grin++ safety audit as a present of help and because of these builders pioneering the MimbleWimble protocol.