Taproot creators didn’t foresee its ‘trolling value’ — Bitcoin dev

Bitcoin developers down the Taproot upgrade didn’t relationship for the “social onslaught surface” that enabled Ordinals, BRC-20s, and different nonfinancial transactions to flood the web with spam, says a Bitcoin developer. 

“What they disregard is that Taproot had important trolling worth arsenic the upgrade that Bitcoiners were placing their hopes in,” Bitcoin Core developer Jimmy Song said successful an X video connected Sunday, adding:

“The summation successful the societal onslaught aboveground of this upgrade wasn’t accounted for astatine all, fto unsocial considered.”

Song — who referred to Ordinals arsenic a “fiat scam” past twelvemonth — claimed that Taproot has failed to unrecorded up to the hype due to the fact that it didn’t present connected the privateness and information features promised. 

He pointed to Schnorr signatures and Script Paths Spend features, which, together, were touted arsenic a much businesslike alternate to multisig, successful immoderate cases allowing 3 of 5 friends oregon household members to assistance with recovering a Bitcoin key. However, it ended up being adjacent much analyzable arsenic it required much rounds of signatures than accepted multisig, helium said.

“Bad idiosyncratic acquisition fundamentally made it a non-starter,” Song added. Taproot was activated by Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, A.J. Townes and a fewer different Bitcoin Core devs successful November 2021, gathering connected the enactment of Gregory Maxwell, who introduced the conception successful January 2018.

— Jimmy Song (송재준) (@jimmysong) September 13, 2025

Song’s comments travel amid a increasing disagreement betwixt Bitcoiners implicit which transactions should beryllium validated oregon not validated connected the network.

Ordinals, Runes ignited the Bitcoin Core vs Bitcoin Knots war

In June, much than 30 Bitcoin Core developers agreed to region the 80-byte bounds connected the OP_RETURN function, allowing for importantly much pictures, audio, videos, and documents to beryllium stored onchain. 

But fears that Bitcoin Core — the starring Bitcoin bundle node relation — could u-turn connected the update person sparked a displacement to usage Bitcoin Knots instead. 

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Earlier this month, Leonidas said his Ordinals assemblage whitethorn adjacent see forking Bitcoin Core if developers reversed the upcoming update and tried censoring Ordinals, Runes, and different non-financial transactions connected the network.

Song hasn’t fixed up connected Taproot upgrade yet

While Taproot-enabled Bitcoin applications haven’t met Song’s expectations frankincense far, helium hasn’t written it disconnected arsenic a imaginable payment to Bitcoin.

“Taproot can, of course, redeem itself, possibly Ark yet decentralizes mining, possibly BitVM creates mode much Bitcoin demand. But truthful far, Taproot has not lived up to the outgo users paid to get it.”

Ordinals, Runes person strengthened Bitcoin security, Leonidas argues

Meanwhile, Leonidas has argued that Ordinals and Runes person contributed implicit $500 cardinal successful transaction fees to fortify Bitcoin’s security — thing which has go an expanding interest arsenic the network’s mining artifact subsidy continues to halve each 4 oregon truthful years.

However, reliance connected these fees has been shaky, with the regular interest tallying from Ordinals inscription fees ranging from $3,060 to $537,400 successful 2025. Dune Analytics data shows. 

The $537,400 is hardly one-twentieth of the grounds $9.99 cardinal it raked successful connected Dec. 16, 2023.

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