Published Sep 24, 2026, 10:10 PM ET · Updated 2 months ago · 3 sources

Bitcoin researchers target privacy coins with Zcash-style shielded transfers

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Bitcoin researchers have proposed a system for private transfers directly on the network without requiring a soft fork or changes to its consensus rules. The Sept. 24 paper from [[alloc] init] researchers Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin introduces Shielded Bitcoin, a metaprotocol designed to conceal transaction amounts, senders, recipients, and links between transfers while […] The post Bitcoin researchers target privacy coins with Zcash-style shielded transfers appeared f