Research corpus PrivacyBLC-STUDY-0105

BIP 341: Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules

A Bitcoin spend that can look like a single key, while still hiding a tree of alternative scripts until one of them is used. Schnorr signatures and the key-path spend are the mechanism. Amounts stay public. This is not a privacy coin.

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Authors: Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick and Anthony Towns
Date: 2020
Publisher: Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick and Anthony Towns
Version: Source cited by the 2020 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0105
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: BSD-3-Clause

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Official source — BIP 341
Blockchain Lab study, the canonical readingOriginal commentary. Not a transcription of the paper.

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Relationships

Canonical readingTaproot study
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Wuille, P., Nick, J., & Towns, A. (2020). BIP 341: Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules. Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick and Anthony Towns. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki

BibTeX

@techreport{taproot2020,
  title = {BIP 341: Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules},
  author = {Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick and Anthony Towns},
  year = {2020},
  institution = {Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick and Anthony Towns},
  url = {https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki},
  note = {Rights status: Licensed for redistribution. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/taproot}
}

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Source status: Official source
Use status: The upstream file is mirrored at /primary/taproot.md under BSD-3-Clause. The canonical file remains the source URL. The desk study is separate.
Rights: Licensed for redistribution
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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