Why SegWit and Taproot Changed Bitcoin
A new article by Shinobi in Bitcoin Magazine revisits SegWit and Taproot, explaining how their design decisions enabled modern scaling systems such as Lightning, DLCs, and BitVM.
bitcoinmagazine.com
🔗
The Core Issue: Why Bitcoin Needed A Remodel With Segwit and Taproot
The former fundamentally changed the structure of Bitcoin transactions, and in the process Bitcoin blocks, to address inherent limitations of the previous transaction structure. The latter rearchitectured some aspects of Bitcoin’s scripting language, how complex scripts are structured and validated, and introduced a new scheme for creating cryptographic signatures.