# River Financial - What Is Taproot and How Will It Benefit Bitcoin? (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/33098103) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[River Financial]] **Full Title**:: What Is Taproot and How Will It Benefit Bitcoin? **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [river.com](https://river.com/learn/what-is-taproot/) **Host**:: [[river.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2023-10-12]] **Created**:: [[2023-10-14]] ## Highlights - Taproot also integrates [Merkelized Alternative Script Trees (MAST)](https://river.com/learn/terms/m/merkelized-alternative-script-tree-mast/), which allow users to lock outputs to multiple scripts. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hchfxyd0npm5z6zfrfxgk8gc)) ^609257842 - Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) allows users to pay to either a Schnorr public key **or** the [Merkle root](https://river.com/learn/terms/m/merkle-root/) of a variety of other scripts. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hchfyjynz2yx8t36tghpfafv)) ^609257856 - When bitcoin is sent to a P2TR output, it is locked to a single public key, called Q. However, this public key Q is actually an aggregation of a public key P and a public key formed from the Merkle root of many other script types. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hchfzxtnfj2wsse90h7r0bwg)) ^609257906 -  ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hchg0n2cdw8wb2y06v809ac2)) ^609257936 - P2TR outputs lock bitcoin directly to a public key, not the hash of the public key. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hchg3zene7q5tk30hyz5nbwh)) ^609258058