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by nullc 723 days ago
Nah, you can't recover an extended public key from signatures. Though lots of users use wallets which use public derivation and hand the extended pubkeys over to third parties.

These days I regret coming up with the scheme, I'd intended it to be a privacy boost by making it easier and safer to use multiple addresses -- but in practice it's used in places where individual keys would have been fine, and it hurts privacy more often than not. :(