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Bitcoin Taproot Activation Has Begun; Miners Now Have 3 Months to Get on Board
The upgrade has been years in the making. It's time to see if the deliberation has paid off.
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Taproot Speedy Trial Code Merged Into Bitcoin Core
The merge puts an end to a long road of activation discussions – now all that's left is Taproot's actual activation.
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Final Taproot Activation Specifics Chosen With a Bitcoin Blockchain 'Coin Toss'
The coin toss is a stand-in for the rough consensus that stakeholders usually broker to make these decisions.
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New Taproot Activation Timeline Means the Upgrade Is (Probably) Coming to Bitcoin This Fall
If the timeline holds, Taproot’s November activation could make for an exciting autumn for bitcoiners.
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Bitcoin Taproot Upgrade Nailed Down for July, but Some Finer Details Still Aren’t Finalized
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?
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Bitcoin Developers Still Divided on Specifics of Taproot Activation
The code for Taproot is ready to go, but developers are still discussing how to deploy the update across Bitcoin’s distributed network.
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UASF Developer Revises Controversial Bitcoin Scaling Proposal
A controversial solution to bitcoin's scaling debate has been updated by the pseudonymous developer who proposed it.
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Bitcoin's Latest Scaling Twist: Support is Building for a UASF
Will the 'economic majority' prevail? The latest twist in bitcoin's scaling debate is a backlash movement against its mining community.
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A Short Guide to Bitcoin Forks
Don't know a hard fork from a soft fork? This guide is designed to help you follow bitcoin's raging technical debates.
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'Super UASF': Could a Clever Idea Break Bitcoin's Scaling Deadlock?
An experimental 'user-activated soft fork' for pushing through a controversial bitcoin code change took another step forward this week
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