by Guy | Apr 19, 2021 | Development
“discussion about Taproot activation turned out to be a long and sometimes heated debate. Now, it has resulted in two different Taproot activation paths, embedded in two main software clients that could in some scenarios even become incompatible with one...
by Guy | Mar 4, 2021 | Development, Technology
“As a consensus system without central authority, Bitcoin protocol upgrades can be challenging. If one segment of the network upgrades to a new version of the protocol before another segment does, different nodes might enforce different rules, introducing the...
by Guy | Dec 7, 2020 | Development, History
“With his choice of words, Taaki had outed an elephant in the room. It was true, Nakamoto had enacted soft forks, but by late 2011, the network no longer operated as it did in those early days.” – Aaron & Pete Before the great block size wars of...
by Guy | Nov 18, 2020 | Development
“Taproot will unlock a new range of possibilities for Bitcoin, improving privacy and expanding smart contract possibilities” The code has been merged, the client is on the way, and it’s time for the miners and community to bring this to the next step. Led by the...
by Guy | Sep 15, 2020 | Cypherpunks, History
“Most Cypherpunk veterans on the Cryptography mailing list had by then seen one too many electronic cash experiments come and go, without any real successes to account for…” “But Hal Finney, ever the optimist, wasn’t ready to give up.”...
