Bitcoin Core Dev: Miners Upgrading Network is "Attack on Bitcoin"
Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr has proposed an alternative way to activate Taproot. But critics say he is putting the network at risk.
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But one well-known Bitcoin developer wants the community to roll with his suggestion.
A programme that activates a major privacy upgrade for Bitcoin is primed and ready. But it has reignited a debate about who's allowed to press the launch button: the miners that process Bitcoin blocks or the node operators that validate transactions.
The privacy upgrade, called Taproot, makes it harder to distinguish between different Bitcoin transactions, such as multi-signature transactions or opening payment channels on the Lightning Network.