How Silent Payments Are Bringing New Privacy Protections To Bitcoin
The Silent Payments proposal could help users make bitcoin transactions more privately, but how does it work and why do we need it?This is an opinion editorial by Seth For Privacy, a privacy advocate and host of the “Opt Out Podcast.”One of the most basic keys to improving your privacy on Bitcoin has long been avoiding the re-use of addresses for multiple payments. But while doing so may seem simple these days, with most wallets automatically generating new addresses for each payment, what do you do when you need to simply accept payments repeatedly, from multiple people, or without....
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