Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange is committing to a three-year sponsorship of the coding nonprofit.
Taproot opens up new possibilities for privacy, multisignature wallets and security, as well as scaling.
The grants allow more developers to maintain and support Bitcoin’s codebase.
We asked a Bitcoin developer about the patronage model, on-chain privacy, lessons from Taproot and Bitcoin's energy consumption.
Should users include anyone holding or just those running nodes? Depends on if a protocol change is on the table, our panelists explain.
The upgrade has been years in the making. Time to see if the deliberation has paid off.
The merge puts an end to a long road of activation discussions – now all that's left is Taproot's actual activation.
The coin toss is a stand-in for the rough consensus that stakeholders usually broker to make these decisions.
If the timeline holds, Taproot’s November activation could make for an exciting autumn for bitcoiners.
Speedy Trial is nearly approved for activating Taproot, but the code may still include a “user activated soft fork” safety net, just in case.
Craig Wright claims someone “stole” 110k BTC from him from wallets connected to the Mt. Gox hack. He wants Bitcoin developers to get them back.
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?
Wow, after such price rise, Dogecoin’s developers have much coding to do.
The meeting ended with rough consensus in favor of BIP8 (false), as well as with approval of two possible methods to put this BIP into motion.
And if you aren't, what's stopping you?