Questions tagged [activation]

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Why isn't the taproot deployment buried in Bitcoin Core?

Bitcoin Inquisition recently had a PR about soft fork activation and as part that PR, it buries taproot and references a closed PR to Bitcoin Core to bury taproot. Will the taproot deployment be buried in Bitcoin Core and if so, what needs to be in…
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Automatically reverting soft forks

Recently, Harding discussed on bitcoin-dev mailing list an idea for a transitory soft fork activation e.g. for CTV. The idea (if I understood correctly) was that the activation would come with inbuilt deactivation after certain period of time (e.g.…
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How to turn my watch only wallet to an active wallet

I was gifted a trust wallet with 3.78 bitcoin but it's a watch only wallet. I've been told that I have to pay 5% of my wallet's worth as a fee in order to have it activated. Is this true? If not, then some please tell me to to turn my watch only…
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How did SegWit start

My understanding of SegWit is that any non-segwit (legacy) nodes will see a SegWit output as an output anyone can spend (i.e. no signature required). This is currently fine since if the miner mines a block with a transaction that tries (illegally)…