Soft Fork

Bitcoin Taproot Activation Has Begun; Miners Now Have 3 Months to Get on Board

The upgrade has been years in the making. Time to see if the deliberation has paid off.

Tech  ·  1 May 2021

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.

Tech  ·  15 April 2021
Bitcoin Core

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.

Tech  ·  7 April 2021
Bitcoin Core

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.

Tech  ·  24 March 2021
Bitcoin Core

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?

Tech  ·  17 February 2021
Bitcoin

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.

Tech  ·  30 October 2020
Bitcoin

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.

Tech  ·  25 April 2017
Technology

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.

Tech  ·  11 April 2017
Bitcoin

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.

Tech  ·  27 March 2017
Bitcoin Protocol

‘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

Tech  ·  15 March 2017