All (full) Bitcoin nodes verify all transactions on the network. This allows the system to be entirely trustless and decentralized, but also presents significant ...

Privacy opt-ins are coming to Litecoin even as regulators continue to scrutinize anonymity-boosting protocols. After two years of development, Litecoin (LTC) has ...

Key components in MimbleWimble are: (a) Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), which enables private-public key encryption – a way to prove you know something without revealing the content of the ...

Litecoin may have recently activated its long-awaited privacy-based upgrade, but not without creating some regulatory compliance issues. Litecoin is one of the earliest alternative coins (altcoins) ...

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with ...

as a way to improve the privacy and scalability of blockchains broadly, but also for the Harry Potter references that have long cloaked its developers in secrecy (the protocol's name comes from a ...

In this piece, we take a look at the state of privacy in MimbleWimble, the Harry Potter-inspired protocol that has so far been implemented into four cryptocurrencies: Grin, Beam, Bitgrin, Kepler. Grin ...