2021-11-8 14:05 |
The Taproot upgrade was set for deployment after achieving a 90% consensus among the Bitcoin miners (mining nodes).
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On November 14, the long-anticipated Bitcoin upgrade, Taproot, finally activated at block 709,632. This upgrade, the most significant soft fork since Segwit in 2017, will improve privacy, scalability, and security on the leading network.
2021-11-15 16:13 | |
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The much-anticipated Bitcoin Taproot upgrade passed the Speedy Trial, which was a signaling period which gauged support for the upgrade from bitcoin's mining sector. Since SegWit, Taproot has been toThe post Bitcoin Taproot upgrade finally achieves activation lock-in! appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-6-13 19:20 | |
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The highly awaited Bitcoin upgrade, Taproot, is finally here and is scheduled for a November release. What Taproot is All About It has been argued whether Bitcoin would ever agree on an upgrade after the tragic 2017 SegWit upgrade.
2021-6-14 19:00 | |
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The ‘Speedy Trial’ lock-in period for the Bitcoin network upgrade Taproot is now complete. Data from taproot. watch details the lock-in has been achieved and it was locked in at block height 687,285 and mined by the mining pool Slushpool.
2021-6-13 22:30 | |
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The biggest upgrade to the Bitcoin network after SegWit in 2017 has been finally locked in for activation in November on block 709,632 after the threshold of 1815 of the blocks signaling their readiness was crossed today.
2021-6-13 18:10 | |
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With Taproot achieving the 90% critical consensus mark among mining nodes, all is now set for Bitcoin soft fork activation later in November.
2021-6-12 15:51 | |
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Taproot has locked in with the Bitcoin protocol upgrade now set to activate in November.
2021-6-12 15:12 | |
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Bitcoin’s Taproot update — the biggest anticipated change to the Bitcoin blockchain since SegWit— is up for another vote. Will it pass? Well, yes. At the time of writing, Taproot had more than tThe post What do you NEED to know about Bitcoin's Taproot upgrade? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-6-12 11:30 | |
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On Friday, June 11, 2021, data shows that Taproot could get locked-in this coming weekend, as the signal ratio is 98. 3% and a touch more than 100 additional signaling blocks are needed to lock in the upcoming soft fork.
2021-6-12 07:00 | |
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The activation of Bitcoin protocol upgrade Taproot appears imminent as only 300 more signaling blocks are needed.
2021-6-10 20:22 | |
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Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance is the latest one to announce support for major Bitcoin upgrade Taproot. “Based on community feedback, Binance Pool has begun signaling for Taproot,” announced the exchange on Monday.
2021-5-17 16:35 | |
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One of the biggest Bitcoin upgrades, Taproot, is starting its second signaling after the first one failed to materialize. In order for Taproot to get locked in the protocol upgrade for November, 90% of the blocks mined need to signal their readiness.
2021-5-15 18:00 | |
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Segregated Witness was activated on the 24th of August, 2017, and the price of Bitcoin grew up to 49,75% following its activation. SegWit essentially prevented non-intentional transaction malleability and increased the block size limit by pulling signature data from Bitcoin transactions.
2021-5-12 20:26 | |
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The upcoming Taproot activation stands to potentially make the Bitcoin ecosystem more user-friendly as well as secure.
2021-5-8 17:54 | |
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The cryptocurrency community will witness some of the biggest network changes this year. Ethereum’s EIP upgrade was the first to stir excitement for Ethereum proponents this year, with the implementation of five EIPs which took place during April’s Berlin Fork.
2021-5-6 19:56 | |
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Bitcoin Core version 0.21.1 is now available for download, including activation parameters for the Schnorr and Taproot protocol upgrade.
2021-5-4 19:32 | |
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Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade, a privacy and scalability improvement, has taken another step closer to becoming a reality. After the code for Taproot’s “Speedy trial,” an activation method was merged into Bitcoin core last month, Taproot signaling on Bitcoin officially began over the weekend with the second and largest downward difficulty adjustment of 12.
2021-5-3 18:30 | |
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The well known software developer Luke Dashjr is in the midst of controversy over how to upgrade the Bitcoin network in order to add the Taproot protocol. Bitcoin Core developers want to upgrade with “Speedy trial,” which will allow miners to push the feature through.
2021-4-17 06:30 | |
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Speedy Trial has been merged into Bitcoin Core, offering a path toward the Taproot protocol upgrade is miners signal their overwhelming support.
2021-4-15 16:35 | |
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Taproot aims to improve scalability and privacy for bitcoin. It is also the biggest upgrade activated in years. Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin outlined these plans in a public Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
2021-3-25 13:21 | |
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The finalized code for Taproot will be shipped in March, but will it house the “user activated soft fork” feature that threatened to activate SegWit?
2021-2-18 22:30 | |
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Scaling, privacy and custody software will all benefit from Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years.
2021-2-4 20:17 | |
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Bitcoin Core developers have rolled out Bitcoin Core 0.21.0, which is a precursor to the highly anticipated Taproot/Schnorr proposal. The post Bitcoin Core Upgrade Introduces Descriptor Wallets and Tor V3 Support first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-1-16 22:58 | |
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Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 introduces new features, performance improvements and takes big steps toward the Schnorr and Taproot protocol upgrade. The post Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 Released: What’s New appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2021-1-14 17:23 | |
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Binance Pool represents 11% of Bitcoin’s mining hashrate. Adding it to the “yes” column pushes mining pool support for Taproot to about 91%.
2020-12-31 20:02 | |
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The leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has also announced its support for Bitcoin’s first big protocol change in three years. Binance’s mining pool is fast climbing up the ranks, accounting for 11.
2020-12-29 18:25 | |
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Bitcoin privacy experts are unimpressed with a circulating slideshow-style privacy report that targets upcoming Bitcoin upgrade Taproot.
2020-12-2 01:19 | |
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The majority of the Bitcoin hash rate is in favor of Taproot, the biggest upgrade to the largest cryptocurrency network since SegWit implementation in 2017. This upgrade will expand Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility while bringing more privacy to the network.
2020-11-29 16:46 | |
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Poolin, BTC. com, and Slushpool have joined F2Pool in support of Taproot. The upgrade will introduce scaling and privacy features in Bitcoin. They are now listed on the “Taproot-Activation” website.
2020-11-24 20:00 | |
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Большинство крупных майнинговых пулов биткоина поддержали обновление Taproot. Одним из них стал Antpool компании Bitmain, сообщил вице-президент Poolin Алехандро Де Ла Торре. Antpool @AntPoolofficial supports the Taproot Upgrade with BIP8 🎊 https://t.
2020-11-21 18:01 | |
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Taproot, a BTC protocol upgrade designed to improve flexibility and transaction privacy, has merged into Bitcoin Core. The post Taproot Merged Into Bitcoin Core appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-10-15 18:03 | |
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While Bitcoin remains the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency, as a first-generation blockchain, it faces a number of challenges. The upcoming Schnorr/Taproot soft fork addresses some of these challenges and will be the most significant update to Bitcoin since the SegWit soft fork of August 2017.
2020-9-30 17:01 | |
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Bitcoin coding expert Pieter Wuille has successfully merged support for Schnorr signatures to BTC. The Taproot merger and the soft fork update are the final steps for smart contract implementation on Bitcoin.
2020-9-15 23:56 | |
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As Taproot, the latest consensus protocol change, approaches activation, Bitcoin developers are asking how exactly the network should be upgraded. The post BIP 8, BIP 9 or Modern Soft Fork Activation: How Bitcoin Could Upgrade Next appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-7-20 17:17 | |
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Bitcoin’s Taproot is not a silver bullet for privacy, says Pieter Wuille
2020-1-31 00:06 | |
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A privacy and scalability upgrade that could turn out to be one of bitcoin's largest to date has passed a couple of milestones that were little noticed outside technical circles.
2020-1-24 03:45 | |
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Several new softfork proposals were posted by the Bitcoin developer and SegWit inventor Pietr Wuille this week. Dubbed ‘Taproot’ the upgrade has almost no downside and will help facilitate the Bitcoin lightning network that is increasingly being adopted.
2019-5-9 09:30 | |
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One of the most bitcoin developers, and co-founder of Blockstream, Pieter Wuille recently unveiled two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) which might be the next possible upgrade for the top crypto.
2019-5-7 18:02 | |
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This article is a direct follow-up from our Taproot explainer. If you haven’t read that article, you should probably do so first. If Taproot is deployed on Bitcoin, many smart contract constructions will look just like regular transactions on the blockchain.
2019-1-26 01:23 | |
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Bitcoin users may, before long, be able to benefit from a trick called “Taproot. ” First proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor and former Blockstream CTO Gregory Maxwell, Taproot would expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy in doing so.
2019-1-25 01:19 | |
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