Taproot, Bitcoin’s Long-Anticipated Upgrade, Activates This Weekend

Taproot, Bitcoin’s Long-Anticipated Upgrade, Activates This Weekend
Taproot, the long-anticipated Bitcoin upgrade, will activate this weekend at block 709,632, opening the door for developers to integrate new features that will improve privacy, scalability and security on the network. The upgrade locked in back in June, when over 90% of miners chose to “signal” their support. A programmed waiting period between lock-in and activation has since given node operators and miners time to fully upgrade to the latest version of Bitcoin Core, 21.1, which contains the merged code for Taproot. Only once they do so will they be able to enforce the new rules making it possible to…