Researchers have proposed a way to make Bitcoin private without changing Bitcoin itself. Misha Komarov, co-founder of alloc/init, explains Shielded Bitcoin: zero-knowledge proofs that hide the sender, receiver, and amount of a Bitcoin transfer, with no soft fork, no custodians, and no bridges. He covers how Bitcoin PIPEs make it possible and what the proposal still needs. It is a research proposal, not a finished product.

Chapters:0:00 Shielded Bitcoin: Private Bitcoin Transactions With Zero-Knowledge Proofs0:38 How Bitcoin PIPEs Make Privacy Possible Without a Soft Fork1:42 Do Indexers and ZK Rollups Require Trust?3:16 Shielded Bitcoin vs. Monero and Zcash4:21 What Privacy…

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