avoiding address reuse (in fact, making address reuse completely impossible, even for malicious users), is still a massive win for transacting on-chain. The extra cpu cost to scan for transactions is well worth that trade-off in my opinion.

the 'privacy' that silent payments offers is identical to a recipient handling out unique addresses to everyone, nothing more. it doesn't protect against any other privacy pitfalls.

no problem. if you're using it to experiment, the '/tweak-index' endpoint may be more useful than '/tweaks' actually. The former returns all tweaks for that block, the latter will filter out all spent outputs (aka 'cutthrough' from the BIP)

you can use the blindbit-oracle server hosted on silentpayments.dev: https://silentpayments.dev/blindbit/mainnet/tweaks/900000

You can use the blindbit-oracle server hosted on silentpayments.dev (e.g. https://silentpayments.dev/blindbit/mainnet/tweaks/900000)