Yes, if people do all the wrong things their merchant can narc them. Silent payments is one of them. Good thing silent payments makes them think they have privacy.
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Haha wat… you could use a hammer wrong and smash your fingers. Silent payments is actually a UX improvement that helps protecting your privacy easier.
I’m working on a UX exploration on silent payments. Would you be willing to review it and critique it?
The common theme I have found around privacy features is that they need to be use case driven rather than stating how feature x or feature y improves your privacy. It's about being completely factual vs factually complete. Being factuality complete is harder, and if people get the wrong idea about the tool can do then all you did is invent a foot gun.
I agree that silent payments is no silver bullet on privacy. I have thought about it a fair bit and my opinion is it’s a fantastic UX improvement that when used with smart coin selection (which it really helps), payjoin and coinjoin does improve privacy.
Watch this and let me know if you still feel this way.
Oh thanks 👀
I don’t have the knowledge to process or judge this video! I got that point about repeated txns being especially bad but the rest not really.