Bitcoin Core Developer Criticizes Taproot for Enabling Ordinals Activity

Jimmy Song argues the Taproot upgrade neglected to address the social attack surface, leading to spam-like transactions such as Ordinals.

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Terms & Concepts
  • Taproot: A Bitcoin protocol upgrade activated in 2021 aimed at improving privacy, efficiency, and smart contract flexibility.
  • Ordinals: A method of inscribing arbitrary data, such as images or text, onto individual satoshis, enabling NFT-like assets on Bitcoin.
  • Social Attack Surface: The set of non-technical vulnerabilities in a system that can be exploited through social behaviors or economic incentives.