Most Influential: The Developers Who Wrote Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade

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Most Influential: The Developers Who Wrote Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade
Bitcoin developer Jonas Nick has a t-shirt emblazoned with the following:Gobbledygook? Hardly. It’s the full reference Schnorr signature verification code contained in Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 340Nick, along with A.J.Towns, Tim Ruffing and Pieter Wuille are the authors credited for writing the three BIPs that made up Taproot, the most significant Bitcoin upgrade in four years.This article is part of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2021 list. Stellabelle’s portrait of the Taproot developers is available at Foundation with 15% of the sale going to charity. Proposed in 2017 by seminal developer Greg Maxwell, Taproot was merged into Bitcoin Core, the most widely…