An infographic of the Silent Payments flow (thanks, Codex!).
With Silent Payments, you get two additional properties:
1. Verifiability - you can independently verify that the Silent Payment address...
Can you help me understand something?
If alice sends to bobs silent payment...
Can alice track the utxo when Bob spends it to bc1xxx ?
Does Bob only gain doubt that his spend was not to an address he controls?
I thought silent payments were supposed to hide the actual recieve address derived?
If alice sends to bobs silent payment...
Can alice track the utxo when Bob spends it to bc1xxx ?
Does Bob only gain doubt that his spend was not to an address he controls?
I thought silent payments were supposed to hide the actual recieve address derived?
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