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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 8 from 2 users
Re: Silent payments
by
n0nce
on 31/05/2022, 22:41:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by witcher_sense (4) ,LoyceV (4)
Your schema remember me what in Monero is called Stealth Addresses:

Maybe this can be useful to compare the ideas:
https://www.getmonero.org/library/MoneroAddressesCheatsheet20201206.pdf
Yes, this is exactly what sprung to mind when I read this proposal. In my opinion, the biggest disadvantage - just as in Monero - is the need for transaction scanning.

There were around 100 million Bitcoin transactions in 2021 [1], while Monero only had around 5 million transactions in the same time [2] - a factor of 20 is not insignificant I'd say, especially when using an SPV wallet. If you open it after a few weeks or months, it will have to churn through a ton of computation if such a scheme were introduced in Bitcoin.


[1] https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/charts/total-transaction-count
[2]
There were 5,868,096 total transactions, for an average of 16,076 transactions per day for the year