Marty's Ƀent Issue #1321: Inscriptions and the chain state The decision to activate SegWit, which increased the block size limit to 4MB, coupled with the decision to activate Taproot, which made it cheaper to create certain transactions, made all of this possible.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1189: Taro hits the scene > Taro uses a new data structure I call a Merkle Sum Sparse Merkle tree which combines the properties of a merkle sum tree along with a Sparse Merkle Tree to
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1115: The transition from HTLCs to PTLCs This is only the beginning of the conversation and I look forward to watching it evolve to a point that produces a viable solution.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1113: Taproot kicks Jevons Paradox into another gear The critics, man. They're not very forward thinking in my opinion.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1111: Taproot activation is upon us via Clark Moody's Dashboard [https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/]It's been a minute [https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-1013/] since we talked about taproot in this weird dark corner of the
Marty's Ƀent Issue #972: Taproot Speedy Trial Activation has been merged into Bitcoin Core This is a very exciting time to be observing the Bitcoin network.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #965: MOAR Centralized Micromanagement If at first you fail at micromanaging your own economy, attempt to micromanage the global economy by creating a "global minimum tax".
Marty's Ƀent Issue #948: Bitcoin governance and precedent with Taproot activation Precedents matter and a big one is potentially about to be set in the form of the way Taproot is (or isn't) activated.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #931: *Bitcoin's climb intensifies* You know what they say, "The first trillion is the hardest."
Marty's Ƀent Issue #911: Reminder: Activate Schnorr + Taproot > @LukeDashjr [https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] you said there was talks of scheduling an IRC chat to debate activation methods for core. Has this been planned yet?
Marty's Ƀent Issue #905: Taproot helping privacy There are many benefits Taproot could bring this potential wave of new bitcoin users. It would be a shame if those benefits were delayed.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #781: Taproot activation discussion The way in which these BIPs will be activated will set a precedent for future activations of protocol additions.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #598: A new on-ramp emerges Escher Hub is particularly cool because the product has the goal of cutting down fiat and bitcoin settlement times while buying/selling bitcoin while increasing buy limits dramatically.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #592: Good piece on Schnorr + Taproot Learn how Schnorr signatures differ from ECDSA signatures, the current algorithm used to generate Bitcoin private-public key pairs. What a Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree is and how Taproot's construction is different.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #478: bip-taproot While it is exciting to finally see a BIP for these improvements, I believe it is important to temper our excitement with a healthy dose of skepticism and adversarial thinking.
