Silent payments

[fillippone]

Bitbox02 added support for Silent payments:



According to th above post, Bitbox02 can now send Silent Payments.

They also have a blog post about Silent Payments:

Reusable payment codes: Exchanging bitcoin addresses privately

[joker_josue]

Imagine that I want to send it to myself using this type of payment. Can I do this now?

That's only useful for testing. On-chain, it's just a normal transaction. Any data you're hiding is known to both sender (you) and receiver (you) already

But then it’s not possible to divert attention, to those who analyze the blockchain?

[NotATether]

That being said, I expect silent payments to get massively adopted, fast.

But, is it possible to make silent payments at this time?

Imagine that I want to send it to myself using this type of payment. Can I do this now?

Technically, yes!

First of all, you and the receiver need to be using a wallet that supports silent payments (like the Bitbox02 above or any of the software wallets that dkbit98 lists in his thread).

Then after that, it's just like sending a regular payment between each other. The blockchain handles creating and receiving transactions, so all you have to do is create a silent payment for an amount and let your wallet handle the rest.

[LoyceV]

But then it’s not possible to divert attention, to those who analyze the blockchain?

That's the beauty of silent payments: it doesn't need any changes in the Bitoin protocol. Everything stays the same, except for getting a new option to increase privacy in certain cases.