Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

MimbleWimble

The MimbleWimble scheme was proposed somewhat mysteriously on the Bitcoin IRC channel and since then has gained a lot of popularity. MimbleWimble extends the idea of confidential transactions and CoinJoin, which allows aggregation of transactions without requiring any interactivity. However, it does not support the use of Bitcoin scripting language along with various other features of standard Bitcoin protocol. This makes it incompatible with existing Bitcoin protocol. Therefore, it can either be implemented as a sidechain to Bitcoin or on its own as an alternative cryptocurrency.

This scheme can address privacy and scalability issues both at once. The blocks created using the MimbleWimble technique do not contain transactions ...