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The change prevents a real channel identifier from exposing its Bitcoin funding link through onion-message forwarding, while preserving valid aliases.
The design could hide payment amounts and identities without a Bitcoin protocol change, but deposits, withdrawals and key security questions remain unresolved.
The proposal could give BTC Zcash-style confidentiality without changing Bitcoin consensus, challenging the case for dedicated privacy networks.
Bandwidth is solvable at ~8 MB a day, but mobile Silent Payments still require trusting the indexer that delivers scan data. A missing tweak can hide a payment silently.
Starknet's strkBTC launch puts the tradeoff in focus: shielding BTC can mean accepting new trust assumptions in wrappers, sidechains or e-cash systems.
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