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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

BTQ’s Bitcoin-like quantum testnet explores post-quantum signatures, exposed public keys and why “old BTC risk” is an ...

As Bitcoin's adoption grew, limitations in its original design, particularly regarding privacy and efficiency, became more apparent. Complex transactions became increasingly cumbersome and expensive.