Should The Bitcoin Taproot Soft Fork Be Buried In The Code Base?
Bitcoin Core developers are considering “burying” the Taproot soft fork, to help developers when reviewing the code, but it could have unintended consequences.Watch This Episode on YouTubeListen To This Episode:AppleSpotifyGoogleLibsynOvercastIn this episode of “Bitcoin, Explained,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost revisit the Taproot activation saga, this time to discuss the burying of soft forks.Taproot, the last soft fork to have been deployed on the Bitcoin network, activated in late 2021. Now, Bitcoin Core developers are considering “burying” the soft fork, which means that....
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By the time you read this, Bitcoin’s Taproot soft fork will be approved. The tendency is irreversible. The technical aspects are too complicated for most people, but we’ll do our best to explain them. What you actually need to know is this: the modifications will improve the Bitcoin network’s performance, bring a little more privacy, […]
Taproot soft fork introduces the concept of Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree (MAST) to improve the scripting capabilities and privacy of the Bitcoin network. The Bitcoin (BTC) network successfully activated the Taproot soft fork following a 90% lock-in consensus from miners and mining pools between blocks 709,488 and 709,632. The milestone signifies the first major upgrade for Bitcoin since August 2017, which saw the launch of Bitcoin’s leading layer-two solution, the Lightning Network and Segregated Witness (SegWit).The Taproot upgrade aims to improve the scripting capabilities and privacy....
In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” the hosts discussed the lock in of Bitcoin’s Taproot soft fork upgrade.
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The DAO debacle continues, after the miner community voted in favor of a protocol soft fork, a new vulnerability introduced by the update has caused the support to the fork to be withdrawn. Geth's 1.4.8 version could allow an attacker to SPAM and effectively freeze the whole Ethereum network. The Ethereum Foundation has introduced a new Geth client version (1.4.9) that rolls back the changes made in the previous soft-fork-enabled software. A security alert was issued by Ethereum Foundation. In the announcement, the developer Felix Lange explained: An attack vector has been identified in....