{"repo":"taprootactivation/Taproot-Activation","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/taprootactivation/Taproot-Activation","clone":"git clone https://github.com/taprootactivation/Taproot-Activation.git","description":"consensus effort","language":"HTML","stars":30,"topics":["bitcoin","taproot","bip9","bitcoin-protocol","soft-forks"],"license":null,"category":"blockchain-web3","readme_excerpt":"View the Hashrate Activation Timeline → UPDATE: SPEEDY TRIAL ADDED TO BITCOIN CORE, CLICK FOR ACTIVATION PARAMETERS . TAPROOT LOCKED-IN 🟩 THANKS MINERS :) connect with me on twitter: https://twitter.com/bitentrepreneur Taproot is a proposed Bitcoin protocol upgrade that can be deployed as a forward-compatible soft fork. By combining the Schnorr signature scheme with MAST (Merklized Alternative Script Tree) and a new scripting language called Tapscript, Taproot will expand Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while offering more privacy by letting users mask complex smart contracts as a regular bitcoin transaction. More information can be found in this Bitcoin Magazine article by Aaron van Wirdum: Taproot Is Coming: What It Is, And How It Will Benefit Bitcoin ------ A soft fork is a change to the Bitcoin protocol wherein only previously valid blocks/transactions are made invalid. Since old nodes recognize the new blocks as valid, a soft fork is forward-compatible. See more here: Soft fork bitcoin wiki Soft forks can be activated in several ways. Multiple of the previous soft forks were activated using BIP9, which required a supermajority of hash power to signal support for the upgrade. BIP8 is the successor of BIP9. BIP8 gives the option to activate the upgrade at the end of the signaling period even without a supermajority of miners signaling support. In the listed activation proposals below, the 'true' or 'false' indicates whether a signal period would end in activation. B","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/taprootactivation","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/taprootactivation/Taproot-Activation/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}