Crypto Mini Lesson: Taproot Upgrade
Taproot puts multiple spending conditions into a Merkle tree (MAST), so when spending, only the condition actually used needs to be revealed.
Ordinals inscriptions, which took off in early 2023, wrote data into the witness portion of Taproot transactions, and BRC-20 tokens followed.
The costliest thing in this community isn’t the transaction fees—it’s the price of not understanding the rules.
Taproot addresses $BTC start with bc1p, unlike SegWit addresses, which start with bc1q.
#BTC
Taproot puts multiple spending conditions into a Merkle tree (MAST), so when spending, only the condition actually used needs to be revealed.
Ordinals inscriptions, which took off in early 2023, wrote data into the witness portion of Taproot transactions, and BRC-20 tokens followed.
The costliest thing in this community isn’t the transaction fees—it’s the price of not understanding the rules.
Taproot addresses $BTC start with bc1p, unlike SegWit addresses, which start with bc1q.
#BTC