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Taproot: Bitcoin’s Quiet Revolution in Privacy, Efficiency, and Contract Design
A Protocol-Level Analysis of Taproot’s Cryptographic Design, Privacy Goals, and Script Path Architecture
Michael P. Di Fulvio
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Author: Michael P. Di Fulvio, CBSA, CBSP
1. Introduction
Taproot (BIP341/342), activated at block height 709,632 on November 14, 2021, extends Bitcoin’s scripting capabilities with a construction that achieves three protocol goals simultaneously:
- Improved privacy through script abstraction
- Signature aggregation via Schnorr (BIP340)
- Extensible scripting via Tapscript
At the consensus level, Taproot replaces ambiguity with clean, deterministic logic. It integrates a pay-to-contract tweak at the key level, allowing conditional logic to be committed to but not exposed unless explicitly required during spending.
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2. Design Motivation
2.1 Legacy Script Exposure
In Bitcoin’s legacy and SegWit models (P2SH, P2WSH), redemption scripts are fully exposed at spend time. Even in cooperative conditions (e.g., 2-of-2 multisig), fallback clauses (timelocks…
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