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I’ve regarded round finest I might, however could not discover a good reply to this. Is there anywhere it is documented publicly as to why the comfortable fork was known as Taproot?
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This was answered within the Bitcoin Optech “Making ready for Taproot” collection (2021):
“I at all times assumed the origin of the identify was ‘faucets into the Merkle root’, however I don’t truly know what Gregory Maxwell’s pondering was.” —Pieter Wuille (supply)
“I initially needed to look the phrase up; however I took it as the important thing path being the ‘taproot’ as a result of that’s the tasty one that you simply make carrot soup out of, and the merklized scripts could be the opposite lesser roots that you simply hope to disregard.” —Anthony Cities (supply)
“The identify originated in a visualization of a tree with a thick central truck like a dandelion taproot—the method is usually helpful due to the idea that there’s one excessive chance path and the remainder is fuzzy stragglers, and I assumed it was a very good one due to the punny indisputable fact that it verifies script-path spends by tapping into the hidden dedication within the root.
[…] Alas, calling the hash tree with the sorted inside nodes a ‘myrtle tree’ didn’t catch on. (Myrtle tree as a result of the set of insurance policies with an equal hash root are ones whos ordering differs by a permutation which could be outlined by a t-function, and Myrtle is the household which incorporates melaleuca, the tea-tree, and it seems like ‘merkle’. :p )” —Gregory Maxwell (supply)
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