Understanding Silent Payments: BIP-352 Explained

Has anyone tried this out? Can someone break down how it works? What's the practical use?

So far, Blue Wallet doesn't support it. Cake Wallet is super buggy and the blocks freeze, but it does let you send to a BIP-352 address.

I found one wallet that actually works. Check it out on GitHub. There's also a site with a bunch of wallets listed for this.

I watched a video that explains it in English. Pretty helpful if you're still confused about the concept.

So the silent address acts like a mask for donations, right? It doesn’t write directly to the blockchain, each new donation goes to a fresh address. It keeps both the sender and receiver under wraps.

But how is this different from a mixer? If they add this to AML databases, those 'clean' donations might not look so innocent anymore.

It's not a mixer, though. It doesn’t mix anything at all. The SP1 address comes from the public key, meaning each of your 12 words gets one. It allows the same recipient to receive at different addresses without showing its usage on the blockchain. But both sender and receiver nodes need to support BIP-352 for it to work properly.