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Interview: Grin and Mimblewimble

Jasper van der Maarel Developer MimbleWimble Protocol

Grin council member, Jasper van der Maarel, gave this excellent 20-minute interview about Grin and Mimblewimble just minutes before the Bitcoin Wednesday conference held at ABN Amro bank headquarters on 5 December, 2018. In it, he talks about:

His Background as a Physicist

Mimblewimble’s and Grin’s Mysterious Origins

The Rise of the Grin Community

Anonymity and Scalability

How Grin Compares to Monero, ZCash and Beam

Atomic Swaps with Bitcoin and Ethereum

and much more.

Be sure to check out Jasper’s profile and the rest of the conference agenda for 5 December, 2018, and don’t miss his presentation.

Geoff Goodell, Researcher at University College London

Dr. Geoff Goodel

Geoff Goodellis a researcher at the Department of Computer Science at University College London and an authority on the interface between computer science, finance and public policy. His talk for Bitcoin Wednesday will cover the range of available options on the subject of financial privacy, from total surveillance as represented by traditional financial institutions to the use of cryptocurrencies and related privacy enhancing technologies.

Lyn Ulbricht

Lyn Ulbricht is the mother of Ross Ulbricht, the man sentenced to life in prison at the age of 36 for his involvement in Silk Road. The dark web marketplace has made an indelible impact on the industry.

J.P. Thieriot

J.P. Thieriot is CEO of Uphold, a digital money platform that serves 1.7 million customers in more than 184 country and has processed almost $6 billion in transactions.

Cold Hardware Wallets

Ruben Merreis co-founder and CEO of Ngrave, an end-to-end hardware wallet solution that tackles the what-ifs of managing digital assets and cryptocurrencies.

Patrick Dai

Patrick Dai is CEO of Qtum. He will talk about how Qtum built a smart contract system on top of Bitcoin’s infrastructure.

Thomas Borrel

Thomas Borrel leads the Product Strategy, Product Management and Product Marketing teams across Polymath’s product portfolio. Prior to joining Polymath, Thomas was Director of Product Management at Extreme Networks where he led Extreme’s Software and Cloud offerings.

Micha Roon

Micha Roon is the CTO of the Energy Web Foundation and the Share&Charge Foundation. He is an authority on energy grid decarbonization, electrical vehicle charging and the tokenization of renewable energy.