TREE NEWS update: Misha Komarov, founder of [alloc] init and co-founder of =nil; Foundation, has proposed “shielded Bitcoin,” a method to bring Zcash-style privacy to Bitcoin using a cryptographic primitive his team calls Bitcoin PIPEs. The approach is designed to work without a Bitcoin fork. Komarov discussed the mechanism, including how witness encryption turns zero-knowledge proofs, in an interview.
Developer Pitches Shielded Bitcoin Using Bitcoin PIPEs, No Fork Needed
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Privacy on Bitcoin has historically required either protocol changes or wrapping BTC on other chains, so a no-fork construction is notable for touching Bitcoin's base layer without asking for consensus. The pitch lands in a crowded field of privacy proposals, where the real filter is not the cryptography but whether it can ship and be adopted. The open questions are whether Bitcoin PIPEs move beyond a concept and how the mechanism handles Bitcoin's existing transparency assumptions.
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