Researcher Breaks Mimblewimble, Deanonymizing 96% of Grin Transactions
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by Kai Sedgwick
November 18, 2019
Excerpt:
The Mimblewimble privacy technology used by cryptocurrencies such as Beam and Grin is broken. That’s the claim of researcher Ivan Bogatyy who has published a report documenting his findings. In it, he reveals how he was able to deanonymize 96% of all Grin transactions just by running a node at a cost of around $60. Bogatyy asserts that the flaw is fatal, effectively breaking Mimblewimble.
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