Pieter Wuille [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2016-08-10 📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2016-08-10
📝 Original message:On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> By sending a public seed, there's no way for someone to use the transmitted
> address and trace the total amount of payments to it.

Worse. By revealing a public seed, anyone who has seen it (= anyone
who ever pays you through it) can identity all payments to _any_
address derived from that seed.

--
Pieter