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Schnorr Signatures

Schnorr Signatures

Production
Mainnet Upgrade Bitcoin Upgrade

Schnorr Signatures, activated with Taproot in November 2021, enhance Bitcoin’s efficiency and privacy by enabling signature aggregation and complex scripts.

Technical Details
Liveness Status
Production
Consensus Mechanism
Proof of Work
Security Model
Bitcoin L1
Data Availability
Bitcoin L1
Bridge Mechanism
None
External Links
Bitcoin Website
https://bitcoin.org
BIP-0340
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki
Metadata
Slug
schnorr-signatures
Category
Bitcoin Scaling
Secondary Category
Bitcoin Upgrade