Bitcoin inscriptions "were made possible due to a bug" in an update
Bitcoin Mechanic, a Bitcoin user, suggests that "a flaw" in Taproot allowed for the proliferation of inscriptions.
The error would be linked to the exploitation of the "witness discount," used in SegWit and Taproot.
Recent data reveals that more than half of Bitcoin transactions are non-monetary.
On May 25, the Bitcoin user known as Bitcoin Mechanic on X, a person close to the OCEAN mining pool led by developer Luke Dashjr, claimed that inscriptions in Bitcoin (BTC), a practice that has generated controversy due to its impact on the network, became possible due to an unresolved bug in Taproot, one of the most significant updates to the protocol.
