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Jim Smij
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snowbird between CFL & CNY

my tshirt today...

#smij #zapd #grownostr

I believe it's considered rude to wagyu your beef in public.

what do you say to someone who thinks the fed is already ended and the q drops are telling them to buy xrp? this is their answer when i ask them about btc

good stuff from the Weilands...

#rv #camping #travel #smij #zapd #grownostr

https://fountain.fm/clip/jL2qtMHTzueIj4xFyfVy

Silent payments are a type of payment that can be made to a unique on-chain address for every payment, even though the receiver provided the spender with a reusable (off-chain) address. This mechanism helps improve privacy in Bitcoin transactions.

The mechanics of silent payments work as follows:

- Address Reuse Avoidance: One of the most basic keys to improving your privacy on Bitcoin has long been avoiding the re-use of addresses for multiple payments. Address reuse leads to a significant erosion of privacy because it creates a public record of transactions on the blockchain, which can potentially be traced back to the user.

- Unique On-Chain Address Generation: When the sender enters the Silent Payment address into their wallet, their wallet will combine three keys to create a unique, one-time address that only the intended recipient can spend from. Each time a silent payment is made, it automatically generates a new (regular) bitcoin address for that specific transaction.

- Privacy and Security: Silent payments remove the need for a notification transaction entirely by leveraging the outputs in a transaction to signal to the recipient when funds are intended for them. This process protects both the sender's and the recipient's privacy. It also reduces security risks associated with exposing more information about your private key with each transaction.

- Blending In: The resulting transactions from silent payments blend in with other Bitcoin transactions and can't be distinguished. This makes it harder for an outside observer to link multiple payments to the same sender.

In summary, silent payments provide a way to make Bitcoin transactions more privately by avoiding address reuse, generating unique on-chain addresses for each transaction, and blending in with other transactions. However, it's important to note that while silent payments enhance privacy, they do not provide complete anonymity. The level of privacy afforded to users largely depends on how they use the Bitcoin protocol.

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come to think of it, I have. I haven't eaten pizza in a while and have been stacking as hard as I can.

thx jack, you jerk!

#smij #zapd

it was whole pizza, not just a slice... so, there's that.

interesting I type some reply to a note then change my mind and hit the "x" to close but it posts anyway!! yikes!

not good amethyst!!

"mater is condensation" -

Terrance Howard on with Joe Rogan...

https://fountain.fm/clip/OZZLb11LqIQeNzbLtPjn

a heater is great, but anyone out there with an air conditioner that mines #btc ?

https://fountain.fm/clip/T9dly47KVq6YPqnNYksG

more people here! good to see you're bsck here!