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17 sats \ 4 replies \ @nout 7h \ parent \ on: Sunday Survey: Was Taproot a good thing for Bitcoin? bitcoin
For me it slightly lowered my fees, from usage standpoint it's exactly the same UX across the board and then I'm happy if there are some privacy or scaling capabilities that this enables for me or others in future.
To be clear this is why in the survey I voted "Mixed (please comment)". While I'm using taproot across the board (apparently in some cases also in LN context), it has not been a complete game changer. There is a recent uptick in usage, which may be a good sign, but we will have to see.
it has not been a complete game changer
I think that's the crux of any argument, where the bar for introducing unknown unknowns is.
Since it hasn't been a game changer, resulting in lukewarm adoption at best so far, proponents got it through on pure speculation and hype rather than substance and that is a very dangerous precedent.
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Yes, I agree with the argument and different people will have a different tolerance here. Some things are hard to predict and take time to mature.
My guess would be that in 2 years from now there will be much wider taproot adoption with at least 2 notably taproot-only beneficial usecases being deployed and used. At that point, if that happens, I would vote YES.
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things are hard to predict
My guess
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So are you of the opinion we should continue making changes Bitcoin, introduce new unknown unknowns, based on these speculative feels?
Or do you concede that it was a mistake to activate Taproot based on guesses and chance?