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Silent Payments

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Silent payments let receivers publish one static address while each payment still lands in a unique on-chain output. This reduces address reuse while keeping receiver-side scanning requirements manageable.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Silent Payments (article) Protocol mechanics and wallet integration tradeoffs.
• BTC Transcripts Tag: Silent payments (article) Implementation-oriented talks on scanning and address UX.
• BIP 352 Draft (article) Specification draft for silent payment address and spend flow.

Direct prerequisites (3)

• Address Reuse
• Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
• Taproot

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