CD199: CRAIG RAW - SILENT PAYMENTS AND SPARROW WALLET
From Citadel Dispatch by ODELL
April 13, 2026 · 1h 12m
About this episode
Craig Raw discusses silent payments and the Sparrow Wallet, exploring the evolution of bitcoin address systems and their implications for privacy and convenience.
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. Craig on Nostr: https://primal.net/craigraw Craig on X: https://x.com/craigraw Sparrow Wallet: https://sparrowwallet.com Frigate Repo: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/frigate EPISODE: 199 BLOCK: 944916 PRICE: 1384 sats per dollar (00:03:09) Craig Raw of Sparrow Wallet (00:03:27) Silent Payments: what they are and why they matter (00:06:01) From single keys to HD wallets: history and limits (00:11:41) Address reuse in the wild and UX realities (00:11:50) BIP47 review: pros, cons, and hardware wallet hurdles (00:15:18) Enter…
People in this episode
Host: ODELL
Guest: Craig Raw
Topics covered
- bitcoin address system
- silent payments
- privacy and convenience
- hardware wallet support
- address derivation
- Frigate server implementation
- adoption strategies
Keywords
- silent payments
- Sparrow Wallet
- bitcoin address
- HD wallets
- BIP47
- Frigate
- gpu acceleration
- address reuse
- hardware wallet
- public server infrastructure
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Sparrow Wallet, Nostr, Frigate, GitHub
Books & works: CD199
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