[tromp]

> nearly every other protocol you'll encounter has made design trade offs

MimbleWimble makes pretty good tradeoffs. It improves on both privacy and scalability, while sacrificing transparent supply auditability.

It also does away with all the bitcoin script complexity while still supporting most functionality with "scriptless scripts" including multisig outputs, atomic swaps, discreet log contracts, and even payment channels.

[poontang1]

Agreed. I like MW a lot, it's just far from usable for normal people at this point.

On the downside, I don't see any path for such privacy centric projects getting any regulatory support whatsoever, and sadly I think this is needed to become a mainstream thing. I still think MW has immense value, it just may be relegated to niche usage.