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1000 sats for evidence of Taproot opposition in 2021
1649 sats \ 16 comments \ @Scoresby 28 Jun bitcoin

One symptom of the BIP 110 debate is that I've seen a number of people saying that Taproot was a mistake.

I like Taproot. I think there are many great things we are going to see from it.

But also, my memory of the discussion before and the activation of Taproot is that almost everybody was in support of it.

Here are some examples:

I'm sure there were some Bitcoiners who were against it, though. So, I'm offering 1000 sats to the first ten items that post evidence of opposition to Taproot from 2021. Screenshots + links are best.

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102 sats \ 2 replies \ @therealsaitama0 29 Jun freebie

Evidence of Taproot opposition in 2021:

  1. Luke Dashjr called Speedy Trial "an attack on Bitcoin" (Apr 2021)
    https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-development-controversy-speedy-trial-taproot-activation/
  2. Luke Dashjr — PSA: Taproot loss of quantum protections (Mar 2021)
    https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-March/018642.html
  3. Mark Friedenbach — "Why I'm against Taproot" (Mar 2021)
    https://freicoin.substack.com/p/why-im-against-taproot
  4. Nikita Zhavoronkov (Blockchair) — Taproot privacy threat (Jan 2021)
    https://forklog.com/en/taproot-a-privacy-threat-why-the-forthcoming-bitcoin-upgrade-is-drawing-criticism/
  5. bitcointalk: "Taproot is useless, minor improvement" (Nov 2021)
    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5371662.msg58452920
  6. LOT=true vs LOT=false developer split — 19 devs opposed the Speedy Trial approach (Feb 2021)
    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Taproot_activation_proposal_202102
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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @Murch 29 Jun
  1. LOT=true vs LOT=false developer split — 19 devs opposed the Speedy Trial approach (Feb 2021)
    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Taproot_activation_proposal_202102

Only five of the nineteen people supporting LOT=true exclusively wanted LOT=true, 14 were fine with either LOT=true or LOT=false. Anyway, that’s just about the activation, not Taproot itself.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 29 Jun

These are good links! Attach a wallet or post a lightning address or a invoice and I will send you sats.

  1. It may be a little pedantic, but I was hoping for criticism of Taproot itself. I have a number of posts by Luke that exhibit strong support for Taproot, even if he was not pleased with the activation method.
  2. The quantum discussion around Taproot is interesting and this is a great link! It's interesting to note that Luke says "I do not personally see this as a reason to NACK Taproot" and Corallo says "This has been discussed ad nauseam, and it all seems to fall apart once its noted just how much Bitcoin could be stolen by any QC-wielding attacker due to address reuse. Ultimately, no "pause" can solve this issue, and, if we learned about a QC attacker overnight (instead of slowly over time), there isn't anything that a non Taproot Bitcoin could do that a Taproot Bitcoin couldn't."
  3. The Mark Friedenbach example is excellent. @1440000bytes also posted it. Thank you.
  4. The Nikita Zhavoronkov link is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.
  5. This bitcointalk thread is not exactly critical of Taproot. pretty much everyone, even the OP seem to be in favor of it. But the OP does link to an article that has a bunch of shitcoiners expressing criticism of Bitcoin more than Taproot. But I hadn't read it before, so it was interesting.
  6. I see the debate about LOT=true vs LOT=false as a criticism of activation method, not Taproot. See # 1.
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79 sats \ 1 reply \ @BITC0IN 29 Jun
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 29 Jun

Excellent!

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fitgympro21_afk 15 Aug freebie

One 2021 example I don’t see above: Edward Snowden’s May 2021 criticism of Taproot itself, rather than its activation method.

At the Ethereal Summit he said, “Taproot does not fix Bitcoin’s privacy problem,” and argued that fragmented address space could make forensic flow analysis easier.

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRsvz6pRtZE
Contemporary report (May 10, 2021): https://dailyhodl.com/2021/05/10/bitcoin-failing-terribly-on-privacy-says-whistleblower-edward-snowden-heres-why/
Contemporary discussion (May 8, 2021): https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/n7r5nx/

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @DP0604 30 Jun -100 sats

@Scoresby You said you'd give 1000 sats to anyone who showed you proof. I still haven't seen my 1000. 👀

1 sat \ 3 replies \ @DP0604 28 Jun -100 sats

The activation of Taproot in November 2021 was one of Bitcoin's most anticipated updates.

Although the update itself was widely celebrated, the process for activating it and the long-term consequences generated minor friction within the community:

Subsequent controversies over unforeseen uses:

Later, critical voices within the community (such as developer Jimmy Song) argued that Taproot opened the door to a new "social attack surface." They pointed out that the new scripting features facilitated the recording of non-financial data on the chain, giving rise to the phenomenon of Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens, which some purists considered a misuse of the network.

https://es.tradingview.com/news/cryptonews:ecb6560e8094b:0-taproot-enabled-bitcoin-spam-by-ignoring-social-attack-vectors-says-dev/

103 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 29 Jun -420 sats

https://m.stacker.news/146715

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @evestacker 29 Jun

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 29 Jun

It probably would have been beneficial had you read that thread before posting it.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @evestacker 29 Jun

I did but I reliase I messed up with the link 🔗 attachment.

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