thats how i thought it worked originally, but im not well versed on that, so i took his word for it
On Aug 10, 2016 12:38 PM, "Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev" < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@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 > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >
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