Thanks for sharing this, I haven't heard of MimbleWimble before but indeed it looks interesting. Here's the original whitepaper if anyone is interested: https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/MimbleWimble-Origi...

I wasn't there during the dot-com era, but from what I read it was the same situation: lots of scammers and cool kids raising millions from investors driven by FOMO (fear of missing out), and lots of money ending up in the wrong hands.