{"id":9515,"date":"2019-05-07T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-developer-proposes-two-bips-for-upcoming-soft-fork\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:12:37","slug":"bitcoin-developer-proposes-two-bips-for-upcoming-soft-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-developer-proposes-two-bips-for-upcoming-soft-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Developer Proposes Two BIPs for Upcoming Soft Fork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Bitcoin developer and Blockstream contributor Pieter Wuille has published two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) aimed at implementing the Taproot technology through a soft fork.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taproot proposal by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwuille?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pwuille<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GavATW2C2b\">https:\/\/t.co\/GavATW2C2b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CKC23bJq71\">pic.twitter.com\/CKC23bJq71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NVK (@nvk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nvk\/status\/1125470757230747648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, developers have put forward several proposals, including those for Merkleized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), Schnorr signatures, and Taproot itself. These updates may be combined into a single soft fork, as Wuille believes that implementing them sequentially would compromise efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The new BIPs describe a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sipa\/bips\/blob\/bip-schnorr\/bip-taproot.mediawiki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SegWit version<\/a> based on Schnorr signatures, Taproot, and Merkle branches, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sipa\/bips\/blob\/bip-schnorr\/bip-tapscript.mediawiki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">semantics<\/a> of the scripting system. These proposals focus solely on the mentioned technologies and exclude other functionalities that could be implemented independently.<\/p>\n<p>The code for these updates is available for review and modification on GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>For a detailed explanation of the principles and advantages of Schnorr signatures, Taproot, and MAST, refer to ForkLog&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"ru\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ru\">Taproot \u0431\u043b\u0438\u0437\u043a\u043e, \u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0421\u043b\u0435\u0434\u0443\u044e\u0449\u0430\u044f \u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u0435\u043d\u044c \u044d\u0432\u043e\u043b\u044e\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0430 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ni6OEPpBav\">https:\/\/t.co\/ni6OEPpBav<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taproot?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taproot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Graftroot?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Graftroot<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B8%D0%BD?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ForkLog (@ForkLog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\/status\/1093753046146912256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">8 \u0444\u0435\u0432\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044f 2019 \u0433.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Segregated Witness protocol was implemented in a soft fork to enhance Bitcoin network scalability, reduce transaction fees, and increase block size limits. Its activation followed intense community debates and a subsequent split into two opposing factions.<\/p>\n<p>Developers of Bitcoin Cash have also announced the implementation of Schnorr signatures, with the upgrade scheduled for May 15.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Live<\/a> for all the news, and <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> for the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Bitcoin developer and Blockstream contributor Pieter Wuille has published two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) aimed at implementing the Taproot technology through a soft fork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1142,1141,459,1134],"class_list":["post-9515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-cryptography","tag-mast","tag-softfork","tag-technical-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}