In the latest Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP-360), core developers have proposed a soft fork that would reduce the current long-tail risk for Taproot-based Bitcoin wallet addresses.

Bitcoin developers lay the groundwork for post-quantum upgrades, but experts vary on whether the threat is years or decades ...

BIP 360, a proposal to make Bitcoin more resistant to future quantum computing threats, has been updated and merged into the official BIP GitHub repository.

Bitcoin's P2MR upgrade merged into the BIP repository. Protection from quantum computers is now a reality. Your funds just got a quantum-resistant security layer.

In the quest to prepare the Bitcoin ecosystem to handle future quantum computing threats, Bitcoin developers have officially submitted BIP-360 into the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal repository. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.