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Inside the 'Shielded Bitcoin' paper that proposes private BTC payments using Zcash tech
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CoinDesk Staff(04:02 AM UTC)
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Summary
- Researchers proposed Shielded Bitcoin, a system modeled on Zcash that could conceal payment amounts, senders and recipients without changing Bitcoin’s network rules.
- The proposal would store encrypted transfers on Bitcoin but rely on separate software to verify them, meaning a Bitcoin transaction could be confirmed even if the private payment failed its own checks.
- The…
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