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Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York
Bitcoin Researchers Propose Shielded Transfers on the Base Layer Without a Soft Fork
The Shielded Bitcoin design borrows encrypted notes, nullifiers and zero-knowledge proofs from Zcash and uses Bitcoin only for publication and ordering, but the researchers have not finished the mechanism for moving coins in and out.
Three researchers at [[alloc] init], Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov and Aleksei Moskvin, published a design on 24 September for private transfers that settle on Bitcoin without changing its consensus rules. As CryptoSlate reported, the p…
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