Good morning
Is there a way to fingerprint Silent Payments on chain? I'd love to track adoption on the Dashboard
Discussion
No not at the moment I don't think but soon you'll be able too I know that's not much help
Nope, they look like normal taproot outputs (that's the point)
From what I understand of the protocol, no. That's one of the main features is that the fact of its privacy preservation is hidden in what look like completely normal transactions.
Yeah, it looks like normal key spend
I dont think so because of the taproot nature... but that shouldnt stop us from testing and trying as chain analysis firms will do the same.
A few ideas:
- Taproot addresses that are no LN related
- Segwit/legacy -> Taproot transactions (since Taproot usage is low and it's likely for a spending to be from a segwit address
- Taproot addresses with more than dust amounts
- Taproot addresses funded from this week on, before there was no Silent payment implementation, therefore no need to count them
I guess that the classical heuristics of "different script outputs" are crucial: most of the users spend from segwit addresses...a transaction with a bunch of segwit inputs and all segwit outputs but one taproot is likely to be a silent payment (or a channel funding btw).
If you'r able to isolate channel fundings from other "to taproot" payments then the esitmate would be kind of reasonable
