Perhaps the most extreme soft-fork proposal right now is OP_CAT, which is the concatenation operator in Bitcoin script. Satoshi disabled this in the early years of Bitcoin to deliberately restrict ...
Fork: A change to the Bitcoin protocol that can come as a codebase fork, blockchain fork, hard fork or soft fork, with one version of the protocol “forking” off from another. Forks can also include ...
A soft fork is a type of blockchain update that introduces new rules or modifies existing ones while remaining backward-compatible Unlike hard forks which create a permanent split in the blockchain so ...
Taproot was a soft fork, so it was a backward-compatible upgrade. Any user of Bitcoin can elect to use a pay-to-Taproot (p2tr) address rather than the older public key hash or SegWit addresses.