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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Bitcoin Silent Payments
by
Lucius
on 30/07/2025, 13:23:02 UTC
Why isn't it used in everyday transactions or why wasn't it implemented?
If you send Bitcoin to a normal address, it simply appears on the blockchain. But if you send Bitcoin to a Silent Payment address, your wallet needs to do much more work to find which funded Bitcoin addresses belong to you.

I selected that option in Cake wallet and it seems like the wallet has to download a lot of data to make the whole thing operational. From what I can see, it's quite slow and stops when the screen turns off, so it's not as simple as it seems at first glance.