Tagged: shielded transactions

September 27, 2026 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A New York cryptography research group has outlined a way to hide Bitcoin payment details on the base chain itself, without asking miners or node operators to adopt a protocol upgrade. The design, called Shielded Bitcoin, comes from [alloc] init researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov,… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Confidential Zcash payments have long carried a noticeable pause before they even leave a wallet. That wait may soon shrink from more than three seconds to well under 200 milliseconds in many cases, after the team behind the Zakura full node released Zakura Common, an… Read More