BTCU was created with the idea of unlocking blockchain’s true potential for the future economy. The next-gen blockchain brought with it a lot of promise, most of which involves solving issues such as security, scalability, costs, interoperability, and privacy.
Being based on the Bitcoin fork whilst having enhanced Ethereum capabilities gave BTCU a clear sense of ingenuity and innovation. Keeping this mindset is necessary, and recently, important upgrades have been implemented. We can notably mention:
— Network validators’ API improvement
— SegWit address support
— Addition of js-module for creating and signing ledget transactions
— Update of the smart contract virtual machine aleth 1.8.0
Many other updates are scheduled for near-future execution. The current works in progress consist of the integration of both TAPROOT scripts from bitcoin as well as the zk-snark library.
More information is to be disclosed farther down the line. Promising changes are on their way, there’s no doubt.
