Silent payments are only for recipient privacy and it is more like obfuscation. Definitely an improvement, but doesn't help sender or amount privacy.
It doesn't work as well on a transparent chain. Counter party can still easily figure what address it went to. Even third parties can figure it out if they know 2 of 3: time of transaction, amount, or sender address
SaberhagenTheNameless / Saberhagen The Nameless
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2024-09-14 23:00:47
in reply to nevent1q…hpsz
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2024-09-14 23:00:47Event JSON
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