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Blockstream's Jade hardware wallet can now interact with Lightning payments while keeping keys in cold storage. Here's how it bypasses the fundamental incompatibility between Lightning's always-on requirements and hardware wallet security.
BIP-376 fills a critical gap in Bitcoin's Silent Payments infrastructure by defining how hardware wallets can safely spend Silent Payment outputs through standardized PSBT fields.
Silent Payments offer Bitcoin users strong privacy without interactive coordination, but spending those outputs has been a wallet UX challenge. BIP376 defines how to spend silent payment outputs using PSBTs, closing a critical gap and enabling hardware wallet support.