Bitcoin’s most significant update since 2017, Taproot, was activated on 14 November and integrated new features that improve privacy, scalability, and security on the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n
The update enables Merkelized Alternative Script Tree (MAST)<\/a><\/strong>, designed to bolster the efficiency and privacy of smart contracts by revealing only the relevant details of the contract when spending Bitcoin.<\/p>\n The Taproot update has been expected since June this year when 90% of Bitcoin miners signalled their support, Gadgets360 reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n MAST replaces<\/a><\/strong> pay to script hash (P2SH). Both are mechanisms of locking transactions until specific conditions are met.<\/p>\n P2SH allows anyone to see how a locked transaction’s conditions could be met, whereas MAST hides all the requirements except those that were met when a transaction was processed.<\/p>\n Another notable feature of the Taproot update is the introduction of Schnorr signatures, which will allow more complex transactions to be made on the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n Previously, the network used the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). Taproot’s Schnorr scheme users linear signatures, promising to make transactions faster, smaller, and cheaper than ECDSA.<\/p>\n Essentially, the new update makes transactions from wallets with multiple signatures appear as any other transactions, improving the security and privacy of these transactions.<\/p>\n According to mining and trading platform Nicehash<\/a><\/strong>: “Schnorr’s signature scheme can aggregate multiple signatures and output them as a single signature. This increases privacy and lowers transaction size and fees.”<\/p>\n It will take some time until the upgrades take full effect, and Bitcoin traders will be unable to make these transactions until the wallet they use adds support for the update.<\/p>\n Bitcoin’s Taproot update will improve the privacy, scalability and security of the network and allow more complex transactions to be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":422942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696],"tags":[187,74238,191,74236,74234,74232],"class_list":["post-422940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-private-key","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-pay-to-script-hash-p2sh","tag-schnorr-signatures","tag-taproot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422944,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422940\/revisions\/422944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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