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What technical development are you speaking of? I thought the Bitcoin community didn't want any modifications to Bitcoin.

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Why would you think such a blatantly false thing? Some recent developments include:

- Schnorr Signatures https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-schnorr.me...

- Taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.me...

- Erlay (relay protocol that reduces bandwidth up to 75%) https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10518

- Dandelion (privacy enhancing transaction relay protocol) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13947

- Miniscript https://prezi.com/view/KH7AXjnse7glXNoqCxPH/

and many more

It doesn't even scale enough for mass adoption. Who said it shouldn't have any modifications?

Not me. I am trying to understand which developments the author of the parent comment is talking about.

Probably Lightning Network.

There are some nice updates in Lightning Network, e.g. I just saw that Lightning Labs released beta of a “non-custodial” mobile wallet that with good UX internally runs Lightning node on the phone: https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2019/06/19/m...

I think the UX is still far from great, but it’s slowly getting there.

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