Observed arrival · 2026-08-26

Silent Payments: a readable name for Bitcoin payments

silentpayments.net Observed source

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A technical explainer and naming service for sending Bitcoin payments to a readable name while retaining a fresh address for every payment.

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The system combines a BIP 352 silent-payment address with a BIP 353 DNS record and can place an optional BOLT 12 offer alongside it in a BIP 321 URI. The recipient’s wallet scans the chain for payments, with the site describing a year of scanning as three and a half minutes on a laptop. A public change log and DNSSEC-signed records are part of the stated operating model.

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