MWC

MWC is an in-progress implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol. Many characteristics are still undefined but the following constitutes a first set of choices:

• Clean and minimal implementation, and aiming to stay as such.
• Follows the Mimblewimble protocol, which provides hidden amounts and scaling advantages.
• Cuckoo Cycle proof of work in two variants named Cuckaroo (ASIC-resistant) and Cuckatoo (ASIC-targeted).
• Relatively fast block time: one minute.
• Block rewards decrease at regular intervals, until the total supply of coins reaches the fixed limit of 20 000 000 MWC.
• Transaction fees are based on the number of Outputs created/destroyed and total transaction size.
• Smooth curve for difficulty adjustments.

To learn more, read our introduction to MimbleWimble.

Status

Much is left to be done and contributions are welcome (see below).

Contributing

To get involved, you can read our contributing docs.

Getting Started

To learn more about the technology, read our introduction.

To build and try out MWC, see the build docs.

Credits

Tom Elvis Jedusor for the first formulation of MimbleWimble.

Andrew Poelstra for his related work and improvements.

John Tromp for the Cuckoo Cycle proof of work.

License

Apache License v2.0.