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 ...

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 ...

Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, and Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs Fireside chat at the Plan₿ Forum in El Salvador (Jan 30, 2025). On Jan 30, 2025, at the inaugural PlanB Forum in El Salvador, ...

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 href="https://www.coindesk.com/tech ...

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 ...