Bitcoin Taproot is a protocol upgrade activated in November 2021 that improved Bitcoin's privacy, lowered fees for complex transactions, and gave developers a more flexible scripting environment. It ...

Bitcoin Taproot, activated in November 2021, represents a significant upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol. It enhances privacy, efficiency, and smart contract capabilities, marking a major step in Bitcoin ...

Last month I attended the maiden voyage of Programming Taproot, a new workshop that Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song just launched. He held the one-day workshop in Bitcoin Commons in downtown Austin. It ...

Taproot Wizards, a collection of 2,108 JPEGs inscribed on Bitcoin using the Ordinals protocol, headed into 2024 on the heels of a $7.5 million seed funding round, which was promptly exceeded by the ...

II. Overview of the Taproot Consensus Solution: The yellow paper begins by highlighting Bitcoin’s non-Turing complete nature and limited functionality for smart contracts. It argues for using ...

The update adds grouped asset identifiers, improves Lightning Network payment flows, and expands support for stablecoin transactions on Bitcoin. “We are incredibly grateful to the bitcoin and ...

Taproot could be used to "hide" quantum safe spending conditions inside Bitcoin UTXOs to deal with the risk of quantum computing. Roughly a quarter of all Bitcoin is exposed to the risk of a quantum ...

Today, Lightning Labs has announced it has released Taproot Assets v0.6, an update to the first multi-asset Lightning protocol on Bitcoin mainnet. The update improves how stablecoins can be minted, ...