Hi BGL community!
We have prepared a new new BGL core distribution, version 0.1.6 for major operating systems.
This one is important: we have synced to the BTC code for up to April 2021 (most credits go
to our fellow dev Emeka, he did huge amount of work).
As BGL is a fully decentralized system: a check is built-in if it would be possible to enable Taproot 6-months before BTC,
The parameters for switch are set as following:
- If 80% of last 2016 blocks upgrade to this taproot-supporting version bit by using latest distribution before 15 June 2021,
then taproot would be enabled approximately on 1 July 2021 (block 66000).This event is interesting in several regards, in particular, we can treat it as some forward-production testing for bitcoin to see how it work out (on a lesser scale) but in real (BGL) mainnet.
Some related reading regarding what is taproot:
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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/taproot-coming-what-it-and-how-it-will-benefit-bitcoin-
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/taproot/In short, Taproot and Schnorr signatures provide:
1. Better privacy for transactions, as various scripts, multi-signatures, etc. under most circumstances look like a regular tx on the blockchain;
2. Size reduction for some scripted transactions, like multi-signatures and others;
3. Creating a transactions requiring up to virtually unlimited number of signers.
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Please do upgrade your node (esp. if you're running pool) to the latest version
version 0.1.6 (available in GitHub releases)Linux (BGL node):
https://github.com/BitgesellOfficial/bitgesell/releases/download/0.1.6/bitgesell_0.1.6_amd64.debLinux (with Qt wallet):
https://github.com/BitgesellOfficial/bitgesell/releases/download/0.1.6/bitgesell-qt_0.1.6_amd64.debMacOS:
https://github.com/BitgesellOfficial/bitgesell/releases/download/0.1.6/BGL-Qt_0.1.6.dmgWindows (64-bit installer): https[Suspicious link removed]
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