Bulletproofs are used to prove that the coins are within a range. IPA is a building block. They are a fundamental for building blinded amount ecash. And with blinded amount ecash, you can have ANY amount ecash, which makes ultrasmall wallets possible.
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When you say any amount and ultra small wallets do you mean mSats?
Proving coins are in a range rather than a specific amount is useful to obscure timing around inflows and outflows? This protects mint users’ privacy?
This is already doable with Chaumian ecash unlinkability properties. What we struggle to do is have the same unlikability also forr the amount the ecash is for.
I mean for example one single coin represents the entire wallet with 101 bytes
