The much-anticipated Bitcoin (BTC) upgrade, Taproot, is expected to finally be activated this week.
Per taproot.watch, the upgrade will activate in 872 blocks from the time of writing, or in estimated 6 days.
Taproot is a major event and a major upgrade - the largest one since SegWit, which was activated in 2017. Taproot is expected to:
Taproot will enable a solution called MAST (Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree), which is meant to allow smart contracts to be more efficient and private by revealing
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