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lontivero | 16 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +9 
 Silent Payments are coming to #Wasabi soon! The plan is to start with the sending functionality, and in a future release, add the receiving part in a privacy-preserving way using our block filters.

https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi/pull/13536
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Eluc | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm not technical enough to full understand the mechanics but it seams much easier to implement send to silent address than generating and receiving to silent address.

Is it due to the discovery mechanic? It seams hard to do it locally, even more on a mobile as it must ressource intensive, right?
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lontivero | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Correct. The sending part simply involves Alice deriving a pubkey for Bob, a cryptographic operation with minimal elements. However, detecting silent payments requires scanning the blockchain to identify payments made to you, which means you need a Bitcoin node. The challenge is implementing this receiving functionality in a light wallet like Wasabi while preserving privacy. Fortunately, this is possible using block filters—a technology Wasabi implemented even before BIP158 was finalized. In other words: yes, the receiving part requires more work.
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Arándano | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Are not block filters used for neutrino btc nodes?
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lontivero | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes but we developed our filters before it was standarized as bip158, that's why our filters are not compatible.
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f07dec60 | 16 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Excited to see wasabi continue to improve.  Seems like new features are coming faster post zksnacks.