A New Paper Claims Zcash-Style Privacy for Bitcoin, No Fork Required
Alloc Init, a cryptography research shop that styles the name as [[alloc] init] on its website, published a paper Thursday that tries to put Zcash-style private transfers onto Bitcoin itself. Recipients, amounts, and the path between old coins and new ones would sit in encrypted notes rather than in the usual public UTXO graph. A key part of the pitch for Shielded Bitcoin is that none of this requires a consensus-level change to the Bitcoin network, which requires buy-in from an extremely diverse userbase and can be a daunting task for anyone trying to add something new to the crypto network.
- ▪Alloc Init, a cryptography research shop that styles the name as [[alloc] init] on its website, published a paper Thursday that tries to put Zcash-style private transfers onto Bitcoin itself.
- ▪Recipients, amounts, and the path between old coins and new ones would sit in encrypted notes rather than in the usual public UTXO graph.
- ▪A key part of the pitch for Shielded Bitcoin is that none of this requires a consensus-level change to the Bitcoin network, which requires buy-in from an extremely diverse userbase and can be a daunting task for anyone trying to add somethi
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Alloc Init, a cryptography research shop that styles the name as [[alloc] init] on its website, published a paper Thursday that tries to put Zcash-style private transfers onto Bitcoin itself. Recipients, amounts, and the path between old coins and new ones would sit in encrypted notes rather than in the usual public UTXO graph. A key part of the pitch for Shielded Bitcoin is that none of this requires a consensus-level change to the Bitcoin network, which requires buy-in from an extremely diverse userbase and can be a daunting task for anyone trying to add something new to the crypto network. The design has been compared to Zcash by the researchers behind the paper themselves and other observers.
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