Taproot

Taproot is a proposed soft fork change to Bitcoin that will allow payments to schnorr public keys that may optionally commit to a script that can be revealed at spend time.

Coins protected by taproot may be spent either by satisfying one of
the committed scripts or by simply providing a signature that verifies
against the public key (allowing the script to be kept private).
Taproot is intended for use with schnorr signatures that simplify
multiparty construction (e.g. using MuSig) and with MAST to
allow committing to more than one script, any one of which may be
used at spend time.

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