https://medium.com/@pieter.wuille/the-patent-on-schnorr-signatures-actually-expired-in-2008-before-bitcoins-creation-20b87c472ede

schnorr signatures solve the malleability problem

so how did segwit help lightning?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/u9gya5/why_lightning_network_is_only_compatible_with/

by eliminating malleability

if bitcoin had schnorr signatures this would have been solved for lightning, and we'd still have 1Mb blocks, instead fo kinda 4mb blocks, but really still 1mb we promise

anyone who thinks they know about bitcoin who doesn't understand this most fundamental issue about the signature algorithm and segwit and lightning should be ashamed of themselves

i should point out that, at this point, i don't think any LN implementation leverages taproot, as it only just got to a point where you can usually get TR transactions into a block in the last year, maybe it started to become possible last year, 2023

LN needed no malleability, and that was the compromise that we ended up with, that's all there is to it... and for whatever reason, this isn't the centre of why we now have fairly majority support for taproot, even though schnorr signatures have been on the radar since 2016

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