Bitcoin Q&A: MimbleWimble and Schnorr Signatures
Channel: aantonop
Date: 2018-02-02

What is MimbleWimble, Schnorr signatures, and what are the implications for privacy and the block size debate?

MimbleWimble: https://scalingbitcoin.org/papers/mimblewimble.pdf
Schnorr signatures: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/068

Chapters
0:00 What is your opinion on MimbleWimble?
1:10 Could you explain and go deeper into digital signature aggregation via Schnorr signatures? To what extent would their application increase Bitcoin anonymity?
1:38 Digital signature aggregation and Schnorrr signatures are really two different things.
3:09 Schnorr signatures are already more compact
4:31 This is a topic that is still in development

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