People still make that same decision today, as Spark works the same. Transactions are public unless the wallet devs change this setting (

). Wallet of Satoshi and Tether wallet devs did not, so it's all public.

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People still make that same decision today, as Spark works the same. Transactions are public unless the wallet devs change this setting ([discussion](https://github.com/tetherto/wdk-wallet-spark/pull/90)). Wallet of Satoshi and Tether wallet devs did not, so it's all public.