Looking Ahead: What's on Bitcoin's Development Horizon?
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Beyond the halving and Ordinals, Bitcoin's developer community is quietly working on the next upgrades. What improvements are in the pipeline?
Bitcoin development is conservative by design, but it's not stagnant. Proposals and discussions are always ongoing for future soft forks or improvements.
Areas of interest include:
SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT: Could enable more advanced Lightning Network and vault designs.
Drivechains: A sidechain proposal to allow more experimental features without changing mainchain consensus.
Ongoing work on MuSig2 and Taproot: Enhancing privacy and efficiency for complex transactions.
Discussion Starters:
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What technical upgrade do you think is most needed for Bitcoin?
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How does Bitcoin's slow-and-steady development philosophy compare to faster chains?
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Are you concerned about potential "hard fork" debates in the future?
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