A long time ago there was more talk about the proposal for Reusable Private Addresses, and it even reached an EC version, but due to various difficulties, it was deactivated. A few months ago Jonald mentioned that he was going to resume work, not only on the client-side implementation, but also on the server. I was happy to see that with version 4.4.0 of Electron Cash, this privacy-focused functionality has returned, available to the general public.

RPA excites me a lot, and perhaps it is one of the things that excited me the most up to the level of CashFusion, because it can be very useful for merchants and content creators.

In my country, Venezuela, many merchants do not have the ability to dedicate a device specifically to be a point of sale with crypto (like for the BCH Register app, which I really like), but they can print a QR (and write to it via a WhatsApp message to the business owner, employee in charge of crypto or manager, to verify if the payment has arrived - This is already done for other payment methods such as Binance or Zelle -).

That QR can be a unique address, which exposes the merchant's history, or it can be an RPA, and hopefully at a certain point it can be a private and reusable address, recognizable by ALL WALLETS although not all wallets manage RPA wallets 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thanks to the guys at EC for working on this, and maybe RPA will be an EASY-TO-USE solution that greatly enhances BCH.

Note: The last time I tried RPA years ago, I found that it took a long time to calculate the destination address, which made me sad; but now, I have made and received several payments, and it does it fast enough that an ordinary user can pay RPA without problems!! That is a very important improvement!!