Privacy
5 posts
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Bitcoin and Financial Privacy
In the age of digital payments, all your financial transactions are permanently recorded and tracked. We take a deep look at why financial privacy should be a fundamental right, and what concrete alternatives Bitcoin offers.
- 2Intermediate
The Bitcoin Blockchain Is a Public Ledger Anyone Can Read
From the mempool and realized price to Long-Term Holder supply and HODL Waves. A practical introduction to the five on-chain metrics every beginner should learn first, with free tools and real-world examples for each.
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Keeping Your Bitcoin Transactions From Being Traced
A comprehensive practical guide to Bitcoin privacy - from basic UTXO management to advanced techniques like CoinJoin, PayJoin, Silent Payments, and BIP-47. Steps ordered by difficulty with real-world implementation advice.
- 4Intermediate
Publish One Address Forever and Stay Unlinkable
Silent Payments (BIP-352) let you publish a single static address and receive a fresh output every time. How the sender derives the address, what scanning costs the receiver, how labels work, and which wallets support it as of August 2026.
- 5Intermediate
The Recipient Puts In a Coin Too
Blockchain analysis assumes every input of a transaction belongs to one person. Payjoin makes that assumption wrong by having the recipient of a payment add one of their own coins as an input. This walks through a numeric example of how the payment amount disappears, the safeguards that let sender and receiver build a transaction without trusting each other, why looking ordinary is the hard part, and how BIP-77 removed the receiving-server barrier.