Blackcoin Wallet Now Allows Custom Stealth Addresses
The Black Chamber, a development team that produces Blackcoin features, has announced a new addition to Blackcoin’s Wallet Obsidian. Users will now be able to customize their public stealth addresses with pseudonyms, allowing them to have memorable addresses without compromising their privacy. Addresses can be customized using any language that can be typed, which opens up many possibilities. For instance, Blackcoin-using companies can utilize this feature to create an address with the company name; the ability to use any language would even allow a business or organization to have a....
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"So far, [bitcoin users have] had to pick between simplicity and privacy," bitcoin core developer Mike Hearn told CoinDesk. "Stealth addresses let us have our cake and eat it." Hearn's reaction echoes others who have seen the block chain improvements proposed in a new paper by noted bitcoin developer Peter Todd, based on input from: Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back and Amir Taaki. Released via SourceForge on 6th January, the paper details the creation of a stealth address: a new type of bitcoin address that is being heralded as "revolutionary" for its ability to allow more anonymous payments on....