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How Silent Payments Are Bringing New Privacy Protections To Bitcoin

The Silent Payments proposal could help users make bitcoin transactions more privately, but how does it work and why do we need it?

We Need To Encrypt The Peer-To-Peer Layer Of Bitcoin For Privacy

By making traffic between network peers encrypted, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 can improve privacy by hiding node locations and other private data.

Bitcoin Is Losing Favor On Darknet Markets

A deep dive into how Bitcoin’s lack of privacy and, by extension, its insufficient fungibility has led to its loss of market share in darknet markets.

Silent Payments Improve Privacy Without Adding Data To Bitcoin

Silent payments improve user privacy and are similar to stealth addresses and reusable payment codes, but actually save space on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Bitcoin Needs To Be More Private For Adoption

Certain characteristics of Bitcoin create a loss in fungibility. These must be addressed and solved in order for Bitcoin to gain widespread adoption.

Reviewing Privacy-Enhancing Proposals For Bitcoin

Reviewing Bitcoin’s history of proposed privacy improvements can help us learn from the past and keep up with new improvements as we go.

Improving The Privacy Of The Lightning Network’s Gossip Protocol

Currently, the gossip protocol introduces privacy leaks and concerns that could be remedied while condensing the amount of messages sent.

Why You Should Use A Computer Specifically Meant For Bitcoin Transactions And How To Do It

Making sure your bitcoin transactions remain private is made significantly easier with a computer dedicated to this function alone.

How To Set Up And Use The SeedSigner DIY Bitcoin Signing Device

This comprehensive how-to guide walks you through unboxing, setting up and signing bitcoin transactions with the air-gapped SeedSigner device.

Improving Bitcoin Privacy With Silent Payments

By sharing a secret between a receiver and sender, then scanning the Bitcoin blockchain for the transaction, users gain more privacy thanks to a new proposal.
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