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Bitcoin Might Get Ethereum-Style Smart Contracts Under ‘BitVM’ Plan
11.10.2023
The goal of BitVM is to enable Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts without making the network more complicated for other users
Highly Anticipated Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Activates — Taproot Script-Spends Seen in the Wild
14.11.2021
Bitcoin advocates are celebrating the successful implementation of the Taproot upgrade after block height 709,632. The upgrade was highly anticipated as it was one of the biggest changes since the introduction of Segregated Witness (Segwit) in 2017. After the upgrade was completed, the Bitcoin...
Moonshot to $90K — After Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Activates, Crypto Advocates Expect the Price to Rally
13.11.2021
In mid-June, the ‘Speedy Trial’ lock-in period for the Bitcoin network upgrade Taproot locked in at block height 687,285 and was mined by the bitcoin mining pool Slushpool. Taproot is expected to activate on the network on Saturday, November 13, 2021, and the upgrade is considered...
Speedy Trial Success — Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Set to Lock-in This Weekend
12.6.2021
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. Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Inches Toward Lock-in, Success Means Activation...
Crypto Long & Short: Why Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade Matters
9.5.2021
The most important impact for the investing market overall: It's a reminder that Bitcoin is a technology. Plus: What's next for dogecoin?
Bitcoin Taproot Upgrade Nailed Down for July, but Some Finer Details Still Aren’t Finalized
17.2.2021
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?
Taproot Update: Bitcoin Users Home In on Activation Plan, Date Still TBD
3.2.2021
The meeting ended with rough consensus in favor of BIP8 (false), as well as with approval of two possible methods to put this BIP into motion
How Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade Will Improve Technology Across Bitcoin’s Software Stack
3.2.2021
Scaling, privacy and custody software will all benefit from Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years
All Major Mining Pools Now Support Taproot, Bitcoin’s Biggest Upgrade in Years
30.12.2020
Binance Pool represents 11% of Bitcoin’s mining hashrate. Adding it to the “yes” column pushes mining pool support for Taproot to about 91%
Privacy Concerns Over Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Are a ‘Non-Issue,’ Experts Say
1.12.2020
Bitcoin privacy experts are unimpressed with a circulating slideshow-style privacy report that targets upcoming Bitcoin upgrade Taproot
Bitcoin Upgrade, Pu’er on Blockchain, Underground Miners + More News
3.6.2020
Pu'er tea. Source: Adobe/昊 周
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Bitcoin Core version 0.20.0 has been released and is now ready for launch. Per...
Bitcoin’s Future: Exactly How a Coming Upgrade Could Improve Privacy and Scaling
7.4.2020
If the privacy and scaling upgrade Schnorr/Taproot makes it into bitcoin (BTC), it could pave the way for advanced and heretofore impossible projects
Sorry BitPay, New Bitcoin Upgrade Proposal Disables BIP70 by Default
23.9.2019
New headache for BitPay as BIP70 deletion gets closer