Last month I attended the maiden voyage of Programming Taproot, a new workshop that Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song just launched. He held the one-day workshop in Bitcoin Commons in downtown Austin. It ...

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 ...

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 Core developer Jimmy Song said the Taproot upgrade hasn’t lived up to the hype, claiming it has failed to deliver on promised privacy and security features. Bitcoin developers behind the ...

“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 ...

Taproot Wizards has raised $30 million with which it plans to build an ecosystem of applications using the OP_CAT Bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP). OP_CAT is a feature that Bitcoin's pseudonymous ...

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 ...

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, ...