What is Taproot and what improvements did it bring to Bitcoin?
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I first dug into Taproot after hearing it could boost privacy and efficiency. The big changes were Schnorr signatures, MAST, and Tapscript. Schnorr lets you sign with smaller, uniform signatures and even aggregate signatures if you do a multisig, which makes multisig cheaper and faster to verify. For everyday spends, you get smaller data and faster validation. MAST and Tapscript let more complex conditions exist but stay hidden unless you actually trigger them. So a 2-of-3 multisig, or a smart contract, can be spent via a simple key-path and look like a normal single-key transaction on-chain. That means better privacy and cheaper fees without sacrificing functionality.
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Taproot adds Schnorr signatures and MAST, making transactions smaller, more private, and enabling flexible scripts; in practice, I saw multisig cheaper and complex scripts hide unless spent.
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