What is Beam and how will it help users?
Beam is an alternative for those users who want to safeguard their transactions and financial statements confidentially, since blockchains do not store their transactions
How is it that many of today's block chains lack privacy?
The blockchains nowadays do not have enough confidentiality contracts with their users, beam emerges as an alternative for all those users who wish to enjoy total privacy when executing any financial movement
Beam next to the Mimblewimble technology has some unique features that give security and confidence to the user some of these are:
1-Use of blinding to hide values
2- No reusable or identifiable addresses
3- if the input is spent on the output, the values are not stored and are mutually canceled
4- You do not need to store all the verified data
5-They do not use a ring signature
This demonstrates the great commitment that Beam has when caring for user information
What is the benefit of having the ability to choose levels of privacy according to the use case?
Many know that one of the biggest risks for a user who invests in crypto is the hakeo, with Beam the chances of suffering a cyber attack are drastically reduced, because if the hacker does not know the financial statements, it will hardly take the trouble to attack ... This is an example of the many benefits that Beam offers.
How does allowing smaller blocks increase performance and scalability (Mimblewimble)?
if a transaction goes from A, to C, passing through B. It would be saved like this: ABC
But with the smaller blocks used by Beam it would look like this: AC
Use cases
Samuel meets Beam and decides to buy a plane ticket to Acapulco to go with his friends using the personal money he had saved. In this way Samuel can enjoy his holidays with his friends and his wife does not know about the expense because Beam gives total privacy to the user