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Story: Bitcoin (BTC) Softfork TapRoot Schnorr Signature

By Steven Anderson

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David Da Silva Rosa, Aerospace Engineer states, “One country wanted to be the first to adopt Bitcoin. No country wants to be the last to adopt Bitcoin.

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The fact that the price of Bitcoin barely moved while it suddenly became usable to buy anything in an entire country shows that only few market participants understand it.

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Congrats everybody! Bitcoin will be upgraded with Taproot later this year. What stands out to me is that it's happening without any drama, unlike with SegWit in 2017.

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For those who do not understand what Tap Root is? Taproot will expand on Bitcoin’s smart contract flexibility, while providing more privacy in doing so.

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Bitcoin Magazine gives a clear explanation about Tap Root.  Those who are interested should know that, it was published in the past, “While a big undertaking, this is not…

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Taproot is a soft fork.  Therefore, the upgrade will be compatible with previous versions of the software.

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A soft fork is a change to the software protocol where only previously valid transaction blocks are made invalid.

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A multi-signature scheme is a combination of a signing and verification algorithm, which provides support for key aggregation and security in the plain public-key model.

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The Power of Schnorr: The Signature Algorithm to Increase Bitcoin's Scale and Privacy has been explained in the Bitcoin Magazine way back in 2016.

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Wikipedia points to how in cryptography, a Schnorr signature is a digital signature produced by the Schnorr signature algorithm, which was described by Claus Schnorr.

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