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.
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?
The code for Taproot is ready to go, but developers are still discussing how to deploy the update across Bitcoin’s distributed network.
A controversial solution to bitcoin's scaling debate has been updated by the pseudonymous developer who proposed it.
Will the 'economic majority' prevail? The latest twist in bitcoin's scaling debate is a backlash movement against its mining community.
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An experimental 'user-activated soft fork' for pushing through a controversial bitcoin code change took another step forward this week