Bitcoin Upgrade Taproot Now Locked In, Should Support Significantly Cheaper and More Private BTC Transactions: Report July 8, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi Taproot has now been locked in and should activate in November of this year. Taproot is the name of various technological innovations that have all been bundled together. When they are activated, they should make Bitcoin (BTC) transactions significantly cheaper and also more private, along with several other benefits, the OKCoin team explains in a blog post. The cryptocurrency trading platform points out that this upgrade is the “culmination” of several years of hard work. In January 2018, Bitcoin developer