0 sats \ 6 replies \ @fred 3 Oct 2023 \ on: Announcing LND 0.17 beta: Tapping into Taproot 🥕⚡ bitcoin
Taproot is a different protocol to Lightning so how does it tap into it
They are rebuilding their lightning implementation on top of Taproot, ie their onchain transactions optionally make use of Taproot.
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Does this mean existing channels need to be closed and opened as taproot channels to reap the benefits?
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I think it’s fine to take advantage of taproot privacy on a go forward basis to avoid the fee impact of closing channels all at once
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It means any new channels you create can be these simple taproot channels. It doesn't sound like you can upgrade existing channels.
Although I wonder if somehow you could splice into an upgrade when lnd has splicing (I don't know enough about splicing).
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That would make sense to me
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