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Bitcoin goes through a major upgrade. Here is what it means
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livemint.comNEW YORK: Bitcoin went through a major upgrade on Sunday that enables its blockchain to execute more complex transactions, potentially widening the virtual currency's use cases and making it a little more competitive with Ethereum for processing smart contracts.
Smart contracts are self-executing transactions whose results depend on pre-programmed inputs.
The enhancement, called Taproot, is the most significant change to the bitcoin protocol since the SegWit (Segregated Witness) block capacity change in 2017. SegWit effectively increased the amount of transactions that could fit into a block by pulling data on signatures from bitcoin transactions.
Noelle Acheson, head of market insights at Genesis, a digital currency prime broker, said
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