mom of two working on bitcoin in the margins of life.
Co-organizer of Boston BitDevs - https://bostonbitdevs.org
Sticker lady for The Bitcoin Dev Project - https://bitcoindevs.xyz
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once referred to as “the sweetest bitcoin bro you’ll ever meet.” Only my son is allowed to call me a pond nugget.
It came down to the wire but I finished my son’s Sonic costume last night! The art kid in me was so excited to do this. Happy Halloween! Happy whitepaper day!
What’s the latest on capitalization rules for “Bitcoin”? It’s my understanding that “Bitcoin” the network is capitalized and “bitcoin” the currency is lowercase. However, that seems to have fallen out of favor with the preference to always have it lowercase.
Anyone have an opinion on this? I’m writing some copy for a project and want to follow the most widely used convention.
What are some misconceptions or areas of confusion people have around the Taproot upgrade?
For example, it’s actually three things:
1. Schnorr,
2. Taproot,
3. Tapscript
I was today years old when learned the Taproot part of the upgrade is not just the idea of using Merkle trees (to only revealing spending paths used).
It’s a technique (using a public key and a Merkle tree) to make a coin spendable by either public key OR script. You can’t do any of this without Schnorr, at least not in a way that is remotely reasonable.
I think it’s very confusing that the entire upgrade, the entire package of things, is named after a single feature, even if it is the one that ties everything together into a nice, impressive use case!
There are plenty of interesting things about the Schnorr and Tapscript components, but they are often referred to as general “taproot” in discussion.