Replying to Avatar Leo Wandersleb

What can we do about address reuse?

There are so many exchanges that give their users only one receive address ever. Even hardware wallet users often don't bother fetching their device to generate a new address ever. Sending to such addresses also makes the funds of the sender more trackable and ultimately bitcoin less fungible for all.

Convincing people to use Bitcoin is hard enough but then to bother them to change their address for each transaction is such a hard sell. 😢

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Kruw 4mo ago 💬 2

Silent Payments (BIP352) solved this problem already - https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki

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Leo Wandersleb 4mo ago

No. That's like saying Monero solved that problem. The problem is unsolved and maybe some day SP will make a dent but so far it doesn't.

As long as my payees don't give me the option to pay them to an SP address, the problem very much stands.