A New Paper Claims Zcash-Style Privacy for Bitcoin, No Fork Required
THE SO WHAT
If Zcash-level shielding can be layered onto Bitcoin without a fork, compliance and monitoring assumptions around BTC flows will be stress-tested. Any business touching Bitcoin rails should scenario-plan for a world where a portion of volume becomes effectively opaque.
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