{"id":3788,"date":"2025-06-12T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/maelstrom-announces-its-fourth-bitcoin-developer-grant-recipient\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:16:24","slug":"maelstrom-announces-its-fourth-bitcoin-developer-grant-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/maelstrom-announces-its-fourth-bitcoin-developer-grant-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Maelstrom Announces Its Fourth Bitcoin Developer Grant Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Maelstrom Announces Its Fourth Bitcoin Developer Grant Recipient<\/a><\/p>\n

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Maelstrom is announcing that Ron, known online as \u201cmacgyver13,\u201d is the fourth recipient of the Maelstrom Bitcoin Grant Program, per a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. Ron<\/a> will be working on Silent Payments, as proposed in Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 352<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to be financially supporting Ron, in his mission on integrating Silent Payments into Bitcoin wallets<\/a>,\u201d said the CFO of Maelstrom Arthur Hayes. \u201cMany merchants and users want to provide\/display a single static address that doesn\u2019t change, which is an important, valid and simple use case. With Silent Payments this can still be done, while on-chain address re-use is avoided. Address re-use is a goldmine for the surveillance organisations, and at Maelstrom, we want to help put a stop to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September 2023, Silent Payments was proposed by Josie Baker and Ruben Somsen. It allows people to create a single, static address to share with friends, use for donations, or post for tips without sacrificing privacy. This eliminates address reuse, a key method used by surveillance firms to track user behavior on the blockchain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith many software projects, and perhaps even more so in Bitcoin, taking an idea from a proposal to a fully adopted solution is the hardest part,\u201d Josie said. \u201cIn the short amount of time I\u2019ve been working with Ron, I\u2019ve been thrilled at the progress we\u2019ve made and I\u2019m excited to work with him over the next year on Silent Payments adoption with the goal of making an intuitive, seamless user experience while also protecting user\u2019s financial privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bitcoin<\/a> privacy depends on using new addresses, which often requires sender to receiver interaction. Existing static address methods use notifications that increase costs and leak metadata. Silent Payments avoids both interaction and notifications but requires wallets to scan the blockchain. Multi-party input use is not yet proven secure.<\/p>\n

Silent Payments aim to implement:<\/p>\n

Zero transaction cost overhead<\/p>\n

No linkability between payments and static addresses<\/p>\n

No need for sender to receiver interaction<\/p>\n

Compatibility with privacy tools and modern wallet features<\/p>\n

\u201cMy primary focus will be coordinating development and testing efforts within the growing community dedicated to integrating Silent Payments into desktop and mobile Bitcoin wallets,\u201d stated the new grantee of Maelstrom Ron. \u201cBy advancing Silent Payments alongside BOLT12 and BIP-353, we aim to enhance privacy and simplify the user experience, paving the way for broader adoption of Bitcoin as a payment solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

This post Maelstrom Announces Its Fourth Bitcoin Developer Grant Recipient<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Oscar Zarraga Perez<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Maelstrom Announces Its Fourth Bitcoin Developer Grant Recipient Maelstrom is announcing that Ron, known online as \u201cmacgyver13,\u201d is the fourth recipient of the Maelstrom Bitcoin Grant Program, per a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. Ron will be working on Silent Payments, as proposed in Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 352.\u00a0 \u201cWe are excited to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}