Bitcoin Taproot Upgrade Nailed Down for July, but Some Finer Details Still Aren’t Finalized. A release date and activation timeline are set for Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade, but developers and other stakeholders are still debating the best method to coordinate Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade since SegWit.
Per a public IRC chat discussion, the code for the fully primed-and-ready Taproot upgrade will be deployed sometime between March 17 and March 31 (or April if necessary), but the actual signaling that kick-starts the activation process probably won’t start until July.
If everything goes as planned, then Bitcoin’s “economic majority” (miners and node operators who run Bitcoin’s code) could update within two weeks of the signaling period’s start. Come August 2022, Taproot’s activation period will reach its timeoutheight and signaling will end.
With a date set for the end of March and the bulk of the activation parameters chosen in BIP8, the final question to answer for Taproot’s deployment is whether or not to include the “user activated soft fork” measure from the get-go or not.
I was excited to know taproot activation is coming soon, which will be this year. But, there is a question in the link that 'what happens if the mining pools don’t signal to activate Taproot?
Taproot will ship by BIP8 in late March and activation is slated for July, so this question will have to be answered within the month.
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-taproot-upgrade-july-finer-details-not-finalized
