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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 imply consensus, adoption, or that the idea is even good. What actually happened is that a draft specification met…
