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    "Implement the core BIP352 Silent Payments protocol logic and secp256k1 wrapper",
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      "Unranked because this PR does not touch kernel logic",
      "Adding a chainparams HRP prefix is purely informational and incidental to the cryptographic module"
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  "problem": "Bitcoin Core lacks support for BIP352 silent payments, preventing users from receiving reusable private payments without address reuse. Integrating silent payments requires a well-isolated cryptographic foundation that can be used independently across wallet, RPC, and future indexing infrastructure.",
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    "w0xlt identified several protocol edge cases: preserving output vout indexes when mixed with regular outputs, skipping transactions spending unknown witness versions, enforcing Bech32m checksums, and handling invalid x-only pubkeys without out-of-bounds access.",
    "theStack pointed out missing preconditions and potential crashes when parsing consensus-invalid transaction inputs or adversarially crafted keys.",
    "josibake and rustaceanrob recommended decoupling the PR from CTxDestination and narrowing scope strictly to the BIP352 module and test vectors, which the author implemented."
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