amanda_b_johnson
Well-known member
A brief conversation recently took place on Discord (starting with my comment here) about the feasibility/desirability of updating the Dash protocol to enable MNOs/miners to register xpub / HD addresses/keys (please forgive any technical slips in my wording) for their payouts. The idea here is that address re-use is undesirable not only from the classic "Bitcoin hygiene" perspective, but that it's especially undesirable for the CoinJoin mechanism, as the ease of pinpointing fund origins increases the fewer address inputs that are used.
The initial replies to my post were that registering xpub/HD addresses/keys as payout addresses is, indeed, feasible, but that it would only achieve the stated objective -- that is, obfuscation of multiple addresses stemming from the same payout registration -- if said keys were encrypted by the respective MNO/miner somehow.
Would be interested to hear additional feedback on this, either/both from a desirability perspective (i.e. do you want it?), as well as from a technical perspective (i.e. what would it take to achieve this, exactly?)
Thanks.
@UdjinM6, @QuantumExplorer, @rion, @Pasta, @pshenmic
The initial replies to my post were that registering xpub/HD addresses/keys as payout addresses is, indeed, feasible, but that it would only achieve the stated objective -- that is, obfuscation of multiple addresses stemming from the same payout registration -- if said keys were encrypted by the respective MNO/miner somehow.
Would be interested to hear additional feedback on this, either/both from a desirability perspective (i.e. do you want it?), as well as from a technical perspective (i.e. what would it take to achieve this, exactly?)
Thanks.
@UdjinM6, @QuantumExplorer, @rion, @Pasta, @pshenmic