i like the  00 || X_spend || X_scan + mandate address reuse prevention.

might as well start with something strict

easy to loosen it later - if needed - harder to tighten it later because of
back-compatibility with addresses in-use


On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:02 AM alicexbt via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi woltx,
>
> Thanks for implementing silent payments in Bitcoin Core. I tried the steps
> shared in tutorial and everything works as expected.
>
> I have updated the silent payment address (signet) as TXT record for
> domain alice.silentbitco.in
>
> $ dig -t txt alice.silentbitco.in +short
> "tb1px3kma8e8y8z9l7e640v0x2chzrzww9cu06mqvwyrz805ffletu3s067sgh"
>
> I have also added basic information about silent payments proposal,
> implementation and tutorial on https://silentbitco.in
>
> I had no issues with performance of the UTXO Set and the blocks scan. I
> don't mind using flag but a new address/descriptor format should be a
> better approach. I could not review the code in detail or test edge cases
> however these suggestions by Pavol Rusnak make sense:
> https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/c43b79517e7cb701ebf77eec6dbb46b8?permalink_comment_id=4177027#gistcomment-4177027
>
>
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> ------- Original Message -------
> On Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 at 7:01 AM, woltx via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> I created a short and simple tutorial on how to make silent payments on
> signet.
> https://gist.github.com/w0xlt/72390ded95dd797594f80baba5d2e6ee
>
> In this tutorial, the user will generate an address, publish it, receive
> and spend coins from it and still no transactions are shown from this
> address in a blockchain explorer.
>
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