Bitcoin Taproot, activated in November 2021, represents a significant upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol. It enhances privacy, efficiency, and smart contract capabilities, marking a major step in Bitcoin ...

Taproot could be used to "hide" quantum safe spending conditions inside Bitcoin UTXOs to deal with the risk of quantum computing. Roughly a quarter of all Bitcoin is exposed to the risk of a quantum ...

What is the Q-Day prize? The Q-Day Prize is a challenge to make the Bitcoin network quantum resistant. On April 16, 2025, quantum computing-focused company Project 11 announced the “Q-Day Prize,” a ...

Today, Lightning Labs has announced it has released Taproot Assets v0.6, an update to the first multi-asset Lightning protocol on Bitcoin mainnet. The update improves how stablecoins can be minted, ...

Bitcoin is entering 2026 under dual pressure from long-term security risks and near-term technical levels. Coinbase research ...

Taproot Wizards has raised $30 million with which it plans to build an ecosystem of applications using the OP_CAT Bitcoin improvement proposal (BIP). OP_CAT is a feature that Bitcoin's pseudonymous ...

As Bitcoin's adoption grew, limitations in its original design, particularly regarding privacy and efficiency, became more apparent. Complex transactions became increasingly cumbersome and expensive.