Ignotus Peverell
From CryptoWiki
- Aka Igno
- Grin; founder. Has stepped away from the project, reassuring the privacy coin’s community that it is in “safe hands.” The move has sparked inevitable Satoshi Nakamoto comparisons. He did forget (16-10-2019) to give the grin-tech.org domain to the community: "Grin-tech.org domain has expired. Ignotus Peverell - if you're reading this [ed: pretty sure Ignotus is a POW reader!] , please get in touch with us or renew the domain. The community is working on mitigations, but we'd like to retain control of the domain if possible. We've provisionally redirected to a new project website, https://grin.mw until we regain control of the old grin-tech.org domain."
- The privacy technology underpinning the coin (Mimblewimble) was posted to a bitcoin IRC chat in 2016 by someone called Tom Elvis Jedusor (Voldemort’s real name in the French version of Harry Potter), who then disappeared. It’s possible that Jedusor is also Ignotus Peverell, who posted an introduction to Mimblewimble and its Grin implementation on Github in March 2017.
- "Igno may or may not have created Mimblewimble, but it was he who got the ball rolling by turning Jedusor’s concept into a reality. The fact that the two share Harry Potter names is of course no coincidence. Ignotus Peverell was a pure-blood wizard from the 13th century, the youngest of three brothers and recipient of the invisibility cloak that eventually found its way to Harry Potter. It’s an apt moniker for a privacy coin developer who’s made a point of concealing his identity."
