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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/

But that's after-the-fact. Pretty sure he is looking for resistance before the upgrade.

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