Developers behind the Bitcoin Core software, the most popular implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, have announced the release of the 22nd version of the client.
While introducing several improvements to the software, Bitcoin Core 22.0 is the first major release to support the upcoming Taproot protocol upgrade, which is expected to be activated in November.
What is Taproot?
Bitcoin Core 22.0 was released!It is available from https://t.co/WpMuMaejz1Release mail: https://t.co/ZvZKXZ0iLD
— Bitcoin Core Project (@bitcoincoreorg) September 13, 2021
Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell first proposed the Taproot upgrade in 2018 as a way to expand Bitcoin’s smart contracts flexibility while enhancing its scalability and user privacy.
It is considered to be one of the most important upgrades to the Bitcoin blockchain since Segregated Witness (SegWit) in August 2017, which removed some signature data to allow miners to include more transactions in blocks.
Taproot’s one notable featu
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