Silent Payments is a new approach to improving privacy and useability of Bitcoin. Imagine not needing to manually create new addresses? Josibake and Ruben Somsen join me to discuss some of the ins and outs of Silent Payments. We discuss:

• Silent Payments overview
• Contrast with other techniques such as BIP47 
• Light client support
• Stopping address re-use
• Base layer privacy discussion

Links:

• X: @josibake
• X: @SomsenRuben
• BIP: Silent Payments
• Tracking progress in Bitcoin Core/libsecp256k1
• Informational website from sethforprivacy : Privacy-preserving static addresses for Bitcoin

Sponsors:

• Swan.com (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
• Mempool.space

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• Follow me on X: @stephanlivera
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