
Taproot and Schnorr Signatures are the biggest Bitcoin updates since SegWit. Preparations for code activation will begin in May via the Speedy Trial, and the update itself will be activated in November. Just last month, Bitcoin developers and community members decided on a timeline to roll out the Taproot update. While most community members were in favor of rolling out the update, it took a long time to agree on the technical details of activation.

Now that the Speedy Trial has been merged with the Bitcoin Core source code, the Taproot update is ready for the first phase of activation in May.

The first phase of the update activation is scheduled for May.īitcoin Core developers Fanquake and Marco Falke added two pull requests to the client code created by AJ Townes and Andrew Chow.

The activation code for the Taproot and Schnorr Signatures Update – Speedy Trial – has been included in Bitcoin Core.
