Taproot is a Bitcoin soft fork that integrates Schnorr cryptographic signatures, an alternative signature method to the ECDSA currently implemented on the network.
The voting period started with the latest network difficulty adjustment and will last 2016 blocks until the next update occurs.
Currently, 10.36% of the mined blocks agree with the soft fork, with 1792 blocks left to see what happens.
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