First Grin Block Mined as Mimblewimble Privacy Crypto Goes Live

Grin, a cryptocurrency that leverages the mimblewimble privacy technology, has just gone live on mainnet.

Named after the tongue-tying curse in the Harry Potter book series, mimblewimble is a protocol that fuses transactions together such that they are indecipherable – even on a public digital ledger.

While it has been in the works since late 2016, Grin saw its first block of transactions (after the network’s genesis block) appear Tuesday at 17:38 UTC. A second block was mined less than a minute later, according to one block explorer.

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