Thursday, January 3, the day the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Genesis block of the bitcoin ecosystem added another product to ensure the privacy of the users. They became a new cryptocurrency based on the bitcoin blockchain Beam from the startup from Israel.
Presented for the first time in 2016, the project Mimblewimble was originally focused on scaling of bitcoin and increase the privacy of the users. Some time later, the developers Mimblewimble, however, came to the conclusion that its cryptocurrency.
The flagship and most famous project all the time was considered Grin, but the first implementation of the Protocol has successfully implemented Beam – project, which started in the spring of 2018, has successfully attracted venture financing, which was able to beat the Grin starting up.
#Beam Mainnet is live! Welcome to a new #privacy-oriented world! https://t.co/vhfL2cyX7t #privacymatters #mimblewimble pic.twitter.com/NLFcRwDY3j
— @Beamprivacy (@beamprivacy) January 3, 2019
Blog Beam says that with the launch of the core network are available to users:
- Desktop application with Noda for mining on the CPU for Linux, Mac, Windows
- CLI Wallet (Linux, Mac, Windows)
- Noda Beam (Linux, Mac, Windows)
- A separate miner OpenCL (Linux and Windows)
- A separate miner Cuda (Linux and Windows)
The Beam team is also working on two additional projects — Project Lumini and Lightning Beam. The first aims to unite and Ethereum Beam, the second Beam integrates with Lightning Network.
We will remind that in December of 2018 received financial support and the developers Grin is made possible through investments of $2.1 million from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Digital Currency Group is Barry Silbert platform Layer1. The latter is working to create infrastructure, which will provide further growth Grin. The project launch is expected on January 15.
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