Bitcoin Privacy Enhanced: Reusable Payment Codes Just Got More Useful
Reusable payment codes, which can be used in place of bitcoin addresses to give transactions more privacy, just got more useful. Now there is a directory for payment codes, beta-launched last week by the Samourai Wallet developers. What is a Payment Code? The invention of the highly private bitcoin payment codes for Hierarchical Deterministic (HD)....
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