[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  fielski [@_fielski](/creator/twitter/_fielski) on x XXX followers Created: 2025-07-09 13:22:43 UTC Tom Elvis Jedusor $GRIN ⚡️ツ Tom Elvis Jedusor is a pseudonym inspired by the French name of Tom Marvolo Riddle (Lord Voldemort), a character from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The name "Mimblewimble" also originates from the Harry Potter universe, referring to a spell that prevents the victim from speaking—a metaphor for the protocol's goal of preserving privacy by “silencing” transaction data on the blockchain. On July 19, 2016, under the IRC alias majorplayer, Jedusor appeared in the #bitcoin-wizards channel, posted a link to a whitepaper titled Mimblewimble hosted on a Tor server and immediately vanished without further trace. The whitepaper proposed a blockchain protocol that improves privacy and scalability compared to Bitcoin, leveraging techniques such as Pedersen commitments, CoinJoin, and cut-through to obscure transaction amounts and reduce blockchain size. Despite being brief—only six pages—the whitepaper introduced a groundbreaking concept: a blockchain protocol combining privacy (by concealing addresses and transaction values) with scalability (by eliminating intermediate transaction data to shrink the blockchain). It suggested using Pedersen commitments to validate transactions without exposing their details and introduced "cut-through" to compress blocks. Due to gaps and limited technical specifics in the original paper, developers such as Andrew Poelstra published a refined version in October 2016, expanding on Jedusor’s ideas. Jedusor’s proposal inspired the creation of Grin, launched on January 15, 2019, by another anonymous developer using the pseudonym Ignotus Peverell—also a reference to Harry Potter, associated with the original owner of the Invisibility Cloak. Grin became the first full implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol. Parallels with Satoshi Nakamoto: Like Nakamoto, Jedusor emerged anonymously, introduced a disruptive idea, and disappeared—leaving the crypto community to carry the torch forward.  XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [coins privacy](/topic/coins-privacy) [spell](/topic/spell) [harry potter](/topic/harry-potter) [elvis](/topic/elvis) [$grin](/topic/$grin) [coins pow](/topic/coins-pow) [Post Link](https://x.com/_fielski/status/1942937460121428204)
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Created: 2025-07-09 13:22:43 UTC
Tom Elvis Jedusor $GRIN ⚡️ツ
Tom Elvis Jedusor is a pseudonym inspired by the French name of Tom Marvolo Riddle (Lord Voldemort), a character from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The name "Mimblewimble" also originates from the Harry Potter universe, referring to a spell that prevents the victim from speaking—a metaphor for the protocol's goal of preserving privacy by “silencing” transaction data on the blockchain.
On July 19, 2016, under the IRC alias majorplayer, Jedusor appeared in the #bitcoin-wizards channel, posted a link to a whitepaper titled Mimblewimble hosted on a Tor server and immediately vanished without further trace. The whitepaper proposed a blockchain protocol that improves privacy and scalability compared to Bitcoin, leveraging techniques such as Pedersen commitments, CoinJoin, and cut-through to obscure transaction amounts and reduce blockchain size.
Despite being brief—only six pages—the whitepaper introduced a groundbreaking concept: a blockchain protocol combining privacy (by concealing addresses and transaction values) with scalability (by eliminating intermediate transaction data to shrink the blockchain). It suggested using Pedersen commitments to validate transactions without exposing their details and introduced "cut-through" to compress blocks.
Due to gaps and limited technical specifics in the original paper, developers such as Andrew Poelstra published a refined version in October 2016, expanding on Jedusor’s ideas.
Jedusor’s proposal inspired the creation of Grin, launched on January 15, 2019, by another anonymous developer using the pseudonym Ignotus Peverell—also a reference to Harry Potter, associated with the original owner of the Invisibility Cloak. Grin became the first full implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.
Parallels with Satoshi Nakamoto: Like Nakamoto, Jedusor emerged anonymously, introduced a disruptive idea, and disappeared—leaving the crypto community to carry the torch forward.
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