The Bitcoin developers behind the Taproot upgrade didn’t consider flooding the network with “social attack surfaces” that enabled ordinal numbers, BRC-20S, and other non-financial transactions, Bitcoin developers say.
“What they’re ignoring is that Taproot had a considerable trolling value as an upgrade that Bitcoiner places their hopes on,” Bitcoin core developer Jimmy Song said in X Video on Sunday, adding:
“The increased social offensive aspect of this upgrade was not considered at all, let alone considered.”
The song, which was called “Fiat Scam” last year, claimed that Taproot couldn’t stand the hype because it didn’t provide the privacy and security features it promised.
He pointed out the spending capabilities of Schnoll’s signature and script paths. It was touted as a more efficient alternative to multisig to allow three out of five friends or family members to help recover their Bitcoin keys. But it’s even more complicated because it requires more rounds of signatures than traditional multisigs, he said.
“The bad user experience essentially made it a non-starter,” Song added. Taproot was erupted in November 2021 by Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, AJ Townes and several other Bitcoin Core Devs, and was built on the work of Gregory Maxwell, who introduced the concept in January 2018.
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Was Taproot a wise decision? pic.twitter.com/sujtf8ja2z
-Jimmy Song (Song Jae -Jun) (@jimmysong) September 13, 2025
Song comments should validate or not validate transactions on the network.
Adam Buck, Dennis Porter and Luke Dashll are one of the bitcoiners who like to focus on Bitcoin fixing money, like songs.
Others, such as “Leonidas,” the leader of Bitcoin ordinarys, have accepted Taproot upgrades and used them to create ordinals and runes applications. Bitcoiners at this camp argue that Bitcoin should not censor transactions.
Usually, Rune ignited the Bitcoin Core vs Bitcoin Knot war
In June, over 30 Bitcoin Core developers agreed to remove the 80-byte limit for the Op_return function, allowing quite a few photos, audio, video and documents to be saved on-chain.
However, we fear that Bitcoin Core (the major Bitcoin Software Node Operator) will U-turn with the update will cause a shift to use Bitcoin Knot instead.
The number of Bitcoin Knot nodes has increased from 67 nodes in March 2024 to more than 7,112 today, accounting for almost 28% of the network.
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Earlier this month, Leonidas said his ordinance community might even consider forking Bitcoin core if developers reverse future updates and censor ordinances, runes and other non-financial transactions on the network.
Song hasn’t given up on upgrading Taproot yet
The Taproot-enabled Bitcoin application has not met Song’s expectations so far, but he has not written it down as a potential benefit for Bitcoin.
“Of course, Taproot can redeem itself, and perhaps Ark may ultimately decentralize the mining industry. Perhaps Bitvm will create more demand for Bitcoin. But so far, Taproot has not lived in the cost users who paid to get it.”
Leonidas claims that by standard, Rune has enhanced Bitcoin security
Meanwhile, Leonidas claims that ordinances and Runes offer transaction fees of more than $500 million to enhance Bitcoin security.
However, these fee reliances are volatile, with daily fees ranging from $3,060 to $537,400 in 2025, with ordinal inscription fees ranging from $3,060 to $537,400, Dune Analytics data shows.
$537,400 is not $209,990,000 of the $9,990,000 record registered by Bitcoin Miner on December 16, 2023.
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