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Thanks everyone for the great discussion and awesome feedback. I have updated the Nostr Silent Payments gist with important security caveats. Keep in mind, the use case I am aiming for is not social media, but, rather, digital trade where there might be millions maybe billions of npubs from agents and devices that need to trade and make payments - and be verifiably attributed npub->payment address. FWIW, this is what I was aiming for with a Cashu/Lightning stack. But this is far more simpler and does not require any operating payment infrastructure (nodes, mints, etc). It does require a trusted scanning infrastructure, but that is a tradeoff that I am willing to explore.

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Nostr Silent Payments

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The question boils down to this: who do you trust more? 1. A #cashu mint that has your funds, or 2. A #frigate server that has your keys. Both options are actually valid, and even better for each option you can decide which servers to trust.

If you want to read the gist on Nostr Silent Payments (Nostr Silent Wallet), you can read here:

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This is my nostr silent payment address derived from my NIP-05 address. If you want to test it out, I will scan periodically to see if there are any incoming transactions. I won’t be able to know who sent, so I will report the block of the incoming transaction and sats. Currently, we are at block height 950867.

What’s so cool is that I got it working with Sparrow Wallet’s Frigate Server to do the scanning. That was just made available with Sparrow Wallet’s latest release. Onward! View quoted note →

Nostr Silent Payments Every npub has a verifiable Silent Payments address that anyone can generate and send payments to. Peer-to-Peer Payment. End-to-End Privacy. I did the math. I have working code. It works. This is the future of private payments.

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