Anonymous Blockchain Micropayments Advance With 'Bolt' Proposal
Can blockchain micropayments be fast, decentralized and private? That question arguably forms the core of a new white paper penned by researchers at Johns Hopkins University that explores methods for bringing greater anonymity to off-blockchain micropayment networks. In the paper, researchers Matthew Green and Ian Miers explore privacy in the context of micropayment channels and outline a new scheme for blind off-chain lightweight transactions, or Bolt, which they believe will provide "private, instantaneous [and] anonymous payments". The proposal comes at a time when privacy....
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