All Major Mining Pools Now Support Taproot, Bitcoin’s Biggest Upgrade in Years

The upcoming Taproot activation stands to potentially make the Bitcoin ecosystem more user-friendly as well as secure. While a vast majority of crypto enthusiasts around the globe seem to be gushing about Ether (ETH) at the moment and how its upcoming London hard fork stands to push the premier altcoin’s value even higher, reports have recently surfaced that suggest Bitcoin’s much-awaited Taproot upgrade will go live also sometime by the end of this year.In this regard, many Bitcoin (BTC) mining pools seem to already be signaling their support for the activation and as per data available....

The largest Bitcoin mining pools are signaling for Taproot, but the activation may not reach the 90% critical consensus mark during this current difficulty epoch. Disclaimer: This article has been updated to reflect that BTC.Top has begun signaling for Taproot activation.The top-10 Bitcoin (BTC) mining pools by hash rate distribution are now signaling for Taproot activation with BTC.Top being the latest among them as of the time of writing.Indeed, 90% of Bitcoin’s hash rate briefly signaled for the protocol upgrade with the figure now standing at about 73%.Tweeting on Monday, crypto....

Major Bitcoin miners have begun signaling for Taproot activation that will improve scalability and privacy for the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The road to the Taproot upgrade finally coming in 2021 is already underway, with major Bitcoin (BTC) mining pools already signaling support.According to data from Taproot.watch, a webpage created by Bitcoin developer Hampus Sjöberg, Taproot signaling now accounts for about 44% of the total Bitcoin hashing power as of the time of writing.AntPool and F2Pool — the two largest Bitcoin mining pools by hash rate — are among the....

Scaling, privacy and custody software will all benefit from Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years.

Bitcoin advocates are celebrating the successful implementation of the Taproot upgrade after block height 709,632. The upgrade was highly anticipated as it was one of the biggest changes since the introduction of Segregated Witness (Segwit) in 2017. After the upgrade was completed, the Bitcoin community discussed the slew of benefits Taproot and Schnorr signatures have to offer and have started measuring Taproot usage as well. Taproot Has Been Activated on the Bitcoin Blockchain At 12:15 a.m. (EST) at block height 709,632, at difficulty period 352, Taproot was officially....