LN Fails As BTC Transactions touch $50 — Taproot was the latest Bitcoin (BTC) creation of Core devs (Maxwell, Poelsta, Wuille) to improve scalability using batching of signatures and transactions, and the upgrade was activated on November 12th, 2021 (at block 709,632). Taproot, also partially enabled smart-contract functionality, aiming to allow developers to build DeFi on the BTC…