I am of the persuasion that exploring everything currently at our fingertips that have been enabled because of upgrades like SegWit and Taproot before having discussions about contentious soft forks is the best course of action.
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.
> 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 construct commits that enable 3rd party supply/balance verification and also efficient proofs of non-inclusion — Olaoluwa Osuntokun (@roasbeef) April 5,
This is only the beginning of the conversation and I look forward to watching it evolve to a point that produces a viable solution.
The critics, man. They're not very forward thinking in my opinion.
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 Internet. As of right now, we are 321 blocks away from the much awaited for upgrade being activated. Instead of
This is a very exciting time to be observing the Bitcoin network.
