Re: [bitcoin-dev] Design for a CoinSwap implementation for massively improving Bitcoin privacy and fungibility

2020-05-30 Thread ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev
Good morning Ruben and Chris, > >For a much greater anonymity set we can use 2-party ECDSA to create 2-of-2 > >multisignature addresses that look the same as regular single-signature > >addresses > > This may perhaps be counter-intuitive, but SAS doesn't actually require > multisig for one of t

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Design for a CoinSwap implementation for massively improving Bitcoin privacy and fungibility

2020-05-30 Thread Ruben Somsen via bitcoin-dev
Hey Chris, Excellent write-up. I learned a few new things while reading this (particularly how to overcome the heuristics for address reuse and address types), so thank you for that. I have a few thoughts about how what you wrote relates to Succinct Atomic Swaps (SAS)[0]. Perhaps it's useful. >F

[bitcoin-dev] Announcing Bitcoin Wallet Tracker

2020-05-30 Thread Nadav Ivgi via bitcoin-dev
Hi all, I recently released bwt [0], an HD wallet indexer implemented in Rust, using a model similar to that of Electrum Personal Server. It uses the bitcoind wallet functionality to do the heavy lifting and builds additional indexes on top of that, which can be queried using the Electrum RPC pro