📅 Original date posted:2016-08-10
📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> By sending a public seed, there's no way for someone to use the transmitted
> address and trace the total amount of payments to it.
Worse. By revealing a public seed, anyone who has seen it (= anyone
who ever pays you through it) can identity all payments to _any_
address derived from that seed.
--
Pieter
Pieter Wuille [ARCHIVE] /
npub1tj…jtl6r
2023-06-07 17:52:37
in reply to nevent1q…l794
Author Public Key
npub1tjephawh7fdf6358jufuh5eyxwauzrjqa7qn50pglee4tayc2ntqcjtl6rSeen on
wss://relay.noswhere.comPublished at
2023-06-07 17:52:37Event JSON
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"content": "📅 Original date posted:2016-08-10\n📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev\n\u003cbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e By sending a public seed, there's no way for someone to use the transmitted\n\u003e address and trace the total amount of payments to it.\n\nWorse. By revealing a public seed, anyone who has seen it (= anyone\nwho ever pays you through it) can identity all payments to _any_\naddress derived from that seed.\n\n-- \nPieter",
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