Wallets supporting Silent Payments

[dkbit98]

Silent Payments are interesting new form of Bitcoin addresses that allows preserving privacy with one reusable address.

All Silent Payment bitcoin addresses are starting with sp1 and they can be considered as stealth addresses or reusable payment codes.
Only the sender and receiver can connect Silent Payment address address with on-chain activity, so this makes it perfect for donations purposes as a single address.
Every time you receive coins with Silent Payment they will end up in new bitcoin address, so there is no more address reuse.

Silent Payments was originally proposed by Ruben Somsen as BIP-0352 back in 2022, but this year they are really kicking off and wallets are starting to implement it.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki

Here is example how Silent Payment addresses look

sp1qq0rdyln9cwthvkyd7z7yq5kcpdhlc70h5u9tk2v8dja0gm684twxsqsls3j3phhlg0gnkawqeqq p20q03en269hg26g2fw03tzrc9g75zuume85y

Wallets currently supporting Silent Payments:

• Cake Wallet ^beta
• Silentium wallet ^web
• SeedSigner ^test

[Charles-Tim]

I am not using a SeedSigner, but which is one of the safest cold storage that can be used. I am not using a web wallet, but Silentium wallet is a web wallet. I wanted to try how it would work on Cake wallet and I decided to download it but I saw this malware warning which made me uninstall the wallet immediately:



I have not seen this warning before, but I can not risk it. Or what do you think about installing it?

Bluewallet is working on silent payment and I am looking forward to see a release of an update that will support it. I hope Electrum and other reputable wallets also will support it.

[Pmalek]

Foundation Passport has also announced that they are planning to introduce support for BIP351 and Silent Payments. They plan to integrate it with both Envoy and the Passport hardware wallet in the future. Of course, it's not added yet, but just something for you to keep an eye on.