Bitcoin Developer and SegWit Inventor Proposes New ‘Taproot’ SoftFork

Several new softfork proposals were posted by the Bitcoin developer and SegWit inventor Pietr Wuille this week. Dubbed ‘Taproot’ the upgrade has almost no downside and will help facilitate the Bitcoin lightning network that is increasingly being adopted. Schnorr signatures Bitcoin protocol developer and SegWit inventor, Pieter Wuille, shared a new softfork upgrade proposal dubbed “Taproot” as a likely complement the Schnorr signature softfork upgrade he published to the developer mail list in July 2018.Read MoreThe post Bitcoin Developer and SegWit Inventor Proposes New ‘Taproot’ SoftFork appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.