CD199: CRAIG RAW - SILENT PAYMENTS AND SPARROW WALLET

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Aired Apr 13, 2026 · 1h 11m · Last boosted Jun 8, 2026

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Craig Raw, creator of Sparrow Wallet, joins to discuss silent payments, a new bitcoin address system that eliminates address reuse, removes the gap limit, and aligns privacy with convenience. Craig walks us through the history of bitcoin address derivation from single key to hd wallets to bip 47, then explains how silent payments optimizes everything except scanning cost and how his new server implementation, Frigate, uses gpu acceleration to mitigate that. We discuss the path to adoption including hardware wallet support, public server infrastructure, bip 353 human readable addresses, and the overall vision of upgrading from hd wallets to sp wallets.<...

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Hypno | seedkeys.xyz 100 sats Jun 8, 2026

Bullish on the adoption of SP wallets. It makes so much sense for normies. And it's great for privacy ❤️
qxotk 325 sats May 16, 2026

gotta top up and send more - great as always
C.S.Burner 🪙➡️🔥 1,024 sats Apr 29, 2026

Legend
BlokchainBoog 2,000 sats Apr 28, 2026

Huge fan of craig!
Subversion 340 sats Apr 22, 2026

Top work gents ✌🏼
STIMMY #40HPW🎧 21,000 sats Apr 21, 2026

FREE SAMOURAI
Louferlou 1,212 sats Apr 18, 2026

Imagine a world where you can pay anyone on-chain or lightning with a single identifier (nostr or DNS based ?) thanks to Silent Payments and Bolt12...wild. You could even couple that to a Boltz like swap service to send from Lightning/on-chain then reaching the payee through an atomic swap seamlessly. Insane UX coupled with insane privacy. Fascinating episode.
DoomSatoshi 521 sats Apr 15, 2026

Cheers to Craig Raw, Sparrow is the best
DoomSatoshi 521 sats Apr 15, 2026

Thank you for your time
npub1m0gm4…7lad 250 sats Apr 15, 2026
OpenMike 7,777 sats Apr 15, 2026

@npub1hea99yd4x… is a beast
Mark Sea 300 sats Apr 14, 2026

Thanks Craig 🦅
btconboard #LNHANCE or #CTV 100 sats Apr 13, 2026

Sparrow rules! Boost that before even listening.