Sorr, I thought there was some BIP for a public seed such that someone can generate new random addresses, but cannot trivially verify whether an address was derived from the seed. On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Pieter Wuille wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > By sending a public seed, there's no way for someone to use the > transmitted > > address and trace the total amount of payments to it. > > Worse. By revealing a public seed, anyone who has seen it (= anyone > who ever pays you through it) can identity all payments to _any_ > address derived from that seed. > > -- > Pieter >