Alex Pruden said the asymmetry between acting on a post-quantum signature scheme today and waiting for certainty about quantum-computing hardware timelines means Bitcoin developers should move from ...

II. Overview of the Taproot Consensus Solution: The yellow paper begins by highlighting Bitcoin’s non-Turing complete nature and limited functionality for smart contracts. It argues for using ...

CORRECTION (March 11, 15:40 UTC): Removes incorrect figure from headline. The earlier version said Taproot Wizards was looking to raise around $34 million, based on the sale of 2,121 wizards at 0.2 ...

Taproot could be used to "hide" quantum safe spending conditions inside Bitcoin UTXOs to deal with the risk of quantum computing. Roughly a quarter of all Bitcoin is exposed to the risk of a quantum ...

Taproot Wizards, which capitalized on last year's frenzy in Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions to raise $7.5 million, is now moving forward with its first sale of a collection, Quantum Cats. The series ...

Today, Lightning Labs has announced it has released Taproot Assets v0.6, an update to the first multi-asset Lightning protocol on Bitcoin mainnet. The update improves how stablecoins can be minted, ...

Last month I attended the maiden voyage of Programming Taproot, a new workshop that Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song just launched. He held the one-day workshop in Bitcoin Commons in downtown Austin. It ...

Bitcoin Taproot, activated in November 2021, represents a significant upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol. It enhances privacy, efficiency, and smart contract capabilities, marking a major step in Bitcoin ...

The sale of the non-fungible token (NFT) collection Taproot Wizards will begin on 25 March, the team just announced. The NFT collection comprises a limited mint of 2,121 Wizards. The Wizards were ...

The update adds grouped asset identifiers, improves Lightning Network payment flows, and expands support for stablecoin transactions on Bitcoin. “We are incredibly grateful to the bitcoin and ...