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BIP 352: Silent Payments

Silent payments is a static address protocol for Bitcoin, originally proposed on the mailing list here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-March/020180.html Since then, the proposal has received several rounds of review and has a WIP implementation here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27827 . The proposal has also been sent to the mailing list for review here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-June/021750.html Proposing this as an

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Silent payments is a static address protocol for Bitcoin, originally proposed on the mailing list here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-March/020180.html

Since then, the proposal has received several rounds of review and has a WIP implementation here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27827 . The proposal has also been sent to the mailing list for review here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-June/021750.html

Proposing this as an informational BIP to ensure wallets across the ecosystem can standardize and correctly implement the protocol.

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