Bitcoin researchers target privacy coins with Zcash-style shielded transfers

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by The Defiant / DL News / Protos / CryptoSlate at 25 Sept, 02:10 UTC

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…