Questions tagged [activation]

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…

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.…

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…

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)…