A chronicle of privacy, community, and decentralized development — compiled from the Grin Forum archives (2018–2025).
This book traces the history of Grin, the first implementation of the MimbleWimble protocol, from the mysterious whitepaper dropped into a Bitcoin IRC channel in 2016 through to its evolution as a community-driven project.
Topics covered include:
- The MimbleWimble whitepaper and Igno Peverell's early development
- Emission policy, proof-of-work design, and governance debates
- Mainnet launch on January 15, 2019
- The four scheduled hard forks (2019–2021)
- Anonymous coinbase donations from early Bitcoin miners
- The transition from core team to community council
- Ongoing decentralized development
| File | Description |
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Grin - A Brief Story.epub |
EPUB for e-readers (Kindle, Kobo, etc.) |
Grin - A Brief Story.md |
Full book in Markdown |
ATTRIBUTION_AND_LICENSING.md |
Attribution and licensing notice |
chapters/ |
Individual chapter source files |
all_topic_scores.json |
Scoring data used to select source topics |
selected_topics.json |
Topics selected for inclusion |
This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).
See ATTRIBUTION_AND_LICENSING.md for full details.