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Taproot

Taproot is a consensus-layer upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol that was activated in November 2021 as a softfork (BIPs 340, 341, and 342). Designed to improve Bitcoin's privacy, efficiency, and flexibility, Taproot introduces three interconnected innovations: Schnorr signatures, Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), and Tapscript.

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SegWit

Segregated Witness (abbreviated as SegWit) is an implemented protocol upgrade intended to provide protection from transaction malleability and increase block capacity by changing the structure of transactions.

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Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset

This proposal (BIP number to be defined) follows the implementation of post-quantum (PQ) signatures and introduces a pre-announced sunset of legacy ECDSA/Schnorr signatures. It turns quantum security into a private incentive: fail to upgrade and you will be unable to spend your funds, creating a certainty where none previously existed.

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BIP-360: Pay to Tapscript Hash (P2TSH)

This BIP proposes a new output type: Pay-to-Tapscript-Hash (P2TSH), via a soft fork. P2TSH outputs operate with nearly the same functionality as P2TR (Pay-to-Taproot) outputs, but with the key path spend removed.

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BIP-110: Reduced Data Temporary Softfork

This BIP proposes to temporarily limit the size of data fields at the consensus level, in order to correct distorted incentives caused by standardizing support for arbitrary data, and to refocus priorities on improving Bitcoin as money.

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Taproot

Taproot is a consensus-layer upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol that was activated in November 2021 as a softfork (BIPs 340, 341, and 342). Designed to improve Bitcoin's privacy, efficiency, and flexibility, Taproot introduces three interconnected innovations: Schnorr signatures, Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), and Tapscript.

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

Segwit

Segregated Witness (abbreviated as SegWit) is an implemented protocol upgrade intended to provide protection from transaction malleability and increase block capacity by changing the structure of transactions.

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset

This proposal (BIP number to be defined) follows the implementation of post-quantum (PQ) signatures and introduces a pre-announced sunset of legacy ECDSA/Schnorr signatures. It turns quantum security into a private incentive: fail to upgrade and you will be unable to spend your funds, creating a certainty where none previously existed.

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

BIP-360: Pay to Tapscript Hash (P2TSH)

This BIP proposes a new output type: Pay-to-Tapscript-Hash (P2TSH), via a soft fork. P2TSH outputs operate with nearly the same functionality as P2TR (Pay-to-Taproot) outputs, but with the key path spend removed.

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

BIP-110: Reduced Data Temporary Softfork

This BIP proposes to temporarily limit the size of data fields at the consensus level, in order to correct distorted incentives caused by standardizing support for arbitrary data, and to refocus priorities on improving Bitcoin as money..

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

Taproot

Taproot is a consensus-layer upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol that was activated in November 2021 as a softfork (BIPs 340, 341, and 342). Designed to improve Bitcoin's privacy, efficiency, and flexibility, Taproot introduces three interconnected innovations: Schnorr signatures, Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), and Tapscript.

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

Segwit

Segregated Witness (abbreviated as SegWit) is an implemented protocol upgrade intended to provide protection from transaction malleability and increase block capacity by changing the structure of transactions.

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset

This proposal (BIP number to be defined) follows the implementation of post-quantum (PQ) signatures and introduces a pre-announced sunset of legacy ECDSA/Schnorr signatures. It turns quantum security into a private incentive: fail to upgrade and you will be unable to spend your funds, creating a certainty where none previously existed.

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

BIP-360: Pay to Tapscript Hash (P2TSH)

This BIP proposes a new output type: Pay-to-Tapscript-Hash (P2TSH), via a soft fork. P2TSH outputs operate with nearly the same functionality as P2TR (Pay-to-Taproot) outputs, but with the key path spend removed.

bitcoinbipsoft_fork

BIP-110: Reduced Data Temporary Softfork

This BIP proposes to temporarily limit the size of data fields at the consensus level, in order to correct distorted incentives caused by standardizing support for arbitrary data, and to refocus priorities on improving Bitcoin as money..

bitcoinbipsoft_fork