The sender knows the address to derive it…
The point of silent payments is that it’s like an xpub that you can actually publish yourself.
Someone with your xpub can see all your txs, but someone with your SP address can only make new addresses
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2026-05-21 15:46:00 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…c9yv
Author Public Key
npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkjPublished at
2026-05-21 15:46:00 UTCEvent JSON
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"pubkey": "52b4a076bcbbbdc3a1aefa3735816cf74993b1b8db202b01c883c58be7fad8bd",
"created_at": 1779378360,
"kind": 1,
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"content": "The sender knows the address to derive it…\n\nThe point of silent payments is that it’s like an xpub that you can actually publish yourself.\n\nSomeone with your xpub can see all your txs, but someone with your SP address can only make new addresses",
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