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2024-01-26 15:16:41

hello on Nostr: Do you know what a Payjoin is? Here's what I learned from jaonoctus : Payjoin is a ...

Do you know what a Payjoin is? Here's what I learned from jaonoctus (npub170d…chu7) :

Payjoin is a variation of CoinJoin, wherein the sender collaborates with the transaction recipient to conduct a joint transaction. Originating from BIP-78, crafted by NicolasDorier (npub1zfy…m60l) (the creator of btcpayserver (npub155m…dcvg) ), it addresses a key problem in typical transactions where a sender pays a merchant. This problem is the 'common-input ownership' heuristic. Simply put, when I send you money, all the inputs are usually mine.

Moreover, transaction outputs often reveal the recipient and change due to differences in address types (change-scriptpubkey) and the presence of rounded, larger, or smaller amounts (change-round-amount).

Payjoin mitigates these issues:

For the recipient, it provides a chance to consolidate their coins. They can even make payments in the same transaction where they receive a payment.

For the sender, it alleviates privacy concerns related to the mentioned heuristics.

Payjoin is becoming popular across several implementations.

I did a search and looks like since 2020 this was in the works:
https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax/status/1253682677774983170

Hey wasabiwallet (npub167h…schc) - I'm not sure if this is really your npub - I tried to use find it in https://wasabiwallet.io/ and could not see a Nostr link and https://www.nostr.directory/p/wasabiwallet told me user is not found.

Anyway, special thanks and praise to Mutiny Wallet (npub1mut…23vg) for their Nostr-First approach and recently posting about Payjoin. This is how I heard about it today.

(This is my contribution to help spreading around the concept of Payjoin and apologies if something got lost in translation. In case anyone zaps this note, I will be splitting it with jaonoctus (npub170d…chu7) who was kind to teach me in simple language about what this Payjoin is about)
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