On November 14th, the Taproot upgrade from Bitcoin to block 709.632 was activated, with the aim of creating a de-fi and decentralized application (dApp) ecosystem around the decentralized cryptocurrency, giving it a function more like Ethereum.
But while Taproot has almost complete support from the Bitcoin community – unlike the divisive SegWit upgrade that happened in 2017 – it hasn’t resulted in any significant changes in price or volume.
While the Taproot upgrade is transforming Bitcoin into the future with a number of privacy and efficiency upgrades, it will remain a relatively conservative force in the crypto space, primarily as a warehouse to store value for the future.
Bitcoin price and volume unchanged after Taproot upgrade | Source: Footprint Analytics
ETH price breaks USD 2,800 and trading volume above USD 30,000 after London upgrade on August 6, 2021 | Source: Footprint Analytics
The Bitcoin community updates Bitcoin every 4 years through soft forks, where new features are introduced primarily through Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs).
Unlike previous upgrades, Taproot is not a single feature extension to the Bitcoin network, but rather a larger upgrade with three proposed improvements (BIP340, BIP341, and BIP342).
Greg Maxwell proposed this upgrade in 2018. Since then, three BIPs, written by Pieter Wuille, Tim Ruffing, AJ Townes and Jonas Nick, have been aggregated into Taproot and merged into Bitcoin Core in October 2020.
The Taproot upgrade aims to improve the privacy of transactions and the efficiency of the Bitcoin network.
Content of the offer:
Lower transaction costs
Better security
Smart contracts support
In short: the heart of the Taproot upgrade are Schnorr signatures. It brings a whole new combination of performance, data protection and even smart contract features to Bitcoin.
Although both Bitcoin and the Ethereum network are based on the concept of a distributed ledger and encryption, they differ in technical properties.
For example, Bitcoin acts as a digital currency that is equivalent to gold and is used to store values. Ether powers applications and generates revenue by supporting the network.
One of the main differences between Bitcoin and Ether is that Ether supports and works with smart contracts, giving developers the ability to create new applications.
Today, Ether is establishing itself as the preferred blockchain for these applications, also known as dApps.
The number of DeFi protocols on Ethereum is growing every month | Source: Footprint Analytics
Most dApps and NFTs are based on an Ethernet network. As the use of Ether in DeFi and NFT grows in popularity, Ether has established itself as a leader in the adoption of crypto.
Top 10 Ethereum Burning Projects, including DeFi & NFT | Source: Footprint Analytics
While Ethereum has a larger transaction volume, Bitcoin’s superior network security and capacity can also attract liquidity in the long run.
Similar to gold, Bitcoin is stable and capped at 21 million BTC and the potential of digital gold is increasingly being confirmed.
Taproot is making the Bitcoin network more attractive for building DeFi protocols to capture growing user demand. Many Bitcoin watchers see this upgrade as a godsend for DeFi on the Bitcoin network.
However, many analysts don’t believe that Taproot will be able to turn Bitcoin into a smart contract ecosystem.
Positioned as a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency system, Bitcoin lacks a mature “virtual machine” EVM (Smart Contract Runtime Environment) to execute smart contracts to aid in the storage, execution and review of smart contracts.
Therefore, it is difficult to get more dApp or DeFi projects to program and build projects in your chain. There is still a long way to go before Bitcoin becomes a programmable platform with the DeFi ecosystem.
To be fair, Bitcoin’s development is very slow.
One reason for this is its Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism, which requires up to 50% of the consensus of the Bitcoin nodes for each modification. Even Taproot is unlikely to have caught up with DeFi’s rapid growth.
In addition, only half of the known Bitcoin nodes support the upgrade, the rest are still running with legacy software. That means they haven’t implemented Taproot’s new rules yet.
Taproot’s actual operations, including Schorr, will not begin until next year.
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