{"id":79941,"date":"2021-11-15T01:38:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T06:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=79941"},"modified":"2021-11-15T01:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T06:20:25","slug":"bitcoins-biggest-upgrade-in-four-years-just-happened-heres-what-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2021\/bitcoins-biggest-upgrade-in-four-years-just-happened-heres-what-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin\u2019s biggest upgrade in four years just happened \u2013 here\u2019s what changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) The first bitcoin upgrade in four years has just gone live. It is a rare moment of consensus among stakeholders, and it\u2019s a big deal for the world\u2019s most popular cryptocurrency.\u00a0 The Taproot update means greater transaction privacy and efficiency \u2013 and crucially, it will unlock the potential for smart contracts, which can be used to eliminate middlemen from transactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/14\/bitcoin-taproot-upgrade-what-it-means-for-investors.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) The first bitcoin upgrade in four years has just gone live. It is a rare moment of consensus among stakeholders, and it\u2019s a big deal for the world\u2019s most popular cryptocurrency.\u00a0 The Taproot update means greater transaction privacy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79942,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79941\/revisions\/79942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}