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Morning Edition · Saturday, September 26, 2026Published at 1:50 AM EDT · New York
Researchers map Zcash-style shielded transfers for bitcoin without changing Bitcoin's consensus rules
The design hides sender, receiver and amount using zero-knowledge proofs, but no finished mechanism exists to lock real BTC into the system and release it again.
A group of researchers has published a design for private, bitcoin-denominated transfers that runs alongside Bitcoin rather than inside it. The work, described as Shielded Bitcoin, would use zero-knowledge proofs to conceal the sender, the…
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