satoshi nakamoto wrote:
"The necessity to announce all transactions publicly
precludes this method, but privacy can still be maintained by breaking the flow of information in
another place: by keeping public keys anonymous. The public can see that someone is sending
an amount to someone else, but without information linking the transaction to anyone. This is
similar to the level of information released by stock exchanges, where the time and size of
individual trades, the "tape", is made public, but without telling who the parties were."
this has nothing to do with bitcoin.
it describes what monero does.
dr.fred /
npub1he…ymce6
2023-06-18 21:53:24
in reply to nevent1q…v8y7
Author Public Key
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2023-06-18 21:53:24Event JSON
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