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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 1, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York
A Shielded Bitcoin Proposal Claims Zero-Knowledge Privacy Without a Soft Fork
Misha Komarov's design would hide transaction detail using Bitcoin PIPEs while leaving consensus unchanged, as Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson predicts his Midnight network will overtake Zcash.
Misha Komarov, the researcher behind the Alloc Innit effort, described a protocol he calls Shielded Bitcoin, which would use zero-knowledge proofs and a construction he calls Bitcoin PIPEs to conceal transaction details without requiring a…
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