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Adam Soltys · 6w
Hal wallet can send and receive Silent Payments now. I built a custom silent payment indexer that listens for them in real time via core's zmq transport and serves them over websocket. halwallet.app ...
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This is cool, but I think you are overselling the privacy by saying silent payment addresses "can't be tracked." For example, suppose Bisq adds support for silent payment addresses (which would be a good thing btw) and I use the same SP address with two different sellers on Bisq. But unbeknownst to me, they are actually colluding, sting operators trying to collect info about Bisq users.

Such sting operators can compare notes and learn that the same person bought from Bisq twice, because they both sent money to the same SP address. That allows them to do some tracking that they *couldn't* do if I had avoided SP address reuse.

I think it is unwise to generally recommend reusing SP addresses without fear of tracking. Their utility is real, but more nuanced than tha, and simplifications like "A reusable address that can't be tracked."
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Super Testnet · 6w
Typo correction in the last sentence: Their utility is real, but more nuanced than that, and simplifications like "A reusable address that can't be tracked" are therefore potentially harmful.
Adam Soltys · 6w
Ok fair point I'll remove that description of them