Bitcoin mining payouts could become more private under an early proposal exploring the use of Silent Payments directly in miner coinbase transactions.
Bitfinity Network highlighted the proposal in a post on X, drawing attention to a possible change in how miners receive payouts. The idea would allow miners to provide a reusable Silent Payment address through Stratum V2 rather than giving a mining pool an extended public key, or xpub, from which fresh payout addresses can be generated.
Silent Payments are designed to allow payments to be made to a reusable address without requiring the recipient to publicly reuse the same Bitcoin address. Under the proposal, a miner could provide a Silent Payment address to a pool, while each payout would still be discoverable by the intended recipient.
The approach could offer an additional privacy layer for mining payouts by reducing the need for publicly visible, repeatedly generated payout addresses. It would rely on existing Bitcoin mechanisms rather than requiring a separate payment network or new type of asset.
Stratum V2 is a protocol designed to improve communication between Bitcoin miners and mining pools, including giving miners greater control over transaction selection. Bringing Silent Payments into this process could therefore connect existing privacy and mining infrastructure in a new way.
The proposal is still at an early stage, and its practical use would depend on further technical development, review and adoption by mining pools and relevant software. There are also implementation considerations around how payouts would be detected and processed efficiently by miners.
Bitfinity Network’s comments present the proposal as an example of how Bitcoin’s existing tools can potentially be combined to address specific privacy and infrastructure concerns. For now, however, the idea remains a proposal rather than an established feature of Bitcoin mining.
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