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Silent Payments: A Bitcoin username? With Josibake and Ruben Somsen SLP579

Silent Payments: A Bitcoin username? With Josibake and Ruben Somsen SLP579

Stephan Livera Podcast vor 2 Jahren

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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

Stephan Livera links:

Follow me on X: @stephanlivera

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro

(01:01) - Overview of Silent Payments (SP)

(03:15) - History of the SP idea & contrast with other
methods

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(14:36) - Current status of SP development & adoption

(17:49) - Testing light clients for SP

(21:50) - The Silent Payment Experience

(26:31) - Light client support

(31:20) - What is a light client?

(38:05) - Sponsors

(41:16) - Spend Key & Scan Key

(42:37) - XPUB vs. Silent Payments

(44:42) - Reducing address re-use with SP

(49:29) - Labeling with Silent Payments

(53:14) - Ease of use and compatibility with Lightning

(57:03) - Overcoming the ‘silver bullet’ mindset

(01:10:50) - Composability with Silent Payments

(01:12:46) - Silent Payments summary

(01:14:06) - Closing Thoughts