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 ...

“We are incredibly grateful to the bitcoin and Lightning developer community for their support in providing feedback on the protocol, testing early versions of the software, and building the initial ...

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 ...

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 ...

MetaMask Bitcoin support now lets users buy, swap, and transfer BTC directly within the wallet using multiple payment methods.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nigerian Bitcoiner and CEO of Recursive Capital and Btrust Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, and Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. There is no question that the two transformational ...

CORRECTION (March 11, 15:40 UTC): Removes incorrect figure from headline. The earlier version said Taproot Wizards was looking to raise around $34 million, based on the sale of 2,121 wizards at 0.2 ...

As Bitcoin's adoption grew, limitations in its original design, particularly regarding privacy and efficiency, became more apparent. Complex transactions became increasingly cumbersome and expensive.

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, ...

The yellow paper begins by highlighting Bitcoin's non-Turing complete nature and limited functionality for smart contracts. It argues for using Bitcoin's existing capabilities to build a decentralized ...