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  "textContent": "Bitcoin developer contributors just cleared a documentation hurdle that crypto Twitter treated like an emergency quantum patch. It wasn't. On Feb. 11, a proposal for a new output type, Pay-to-Merkle-Root (BIP-0360), was merged into the official Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository. No nodes upgraded. No activation timeline exists. The BIPs repository itself warns that publication doesn't […]\n\nThe post This “quantum-safe” Bitcoin idea removes Taproot’s key-path — and raises fees on purpose appeared first on CryptoSlate.",
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