How Taproot’s “Social Attack Surface” Became a Profit Engine

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When Taproot launched in 2021, devs focused on privacy & efficiency. Instead, it unlocked an unexpected profit path: inscriptions, Ordinals, and BRC-20 tokens.

While Bitcoin Core dev Jimmy Song slams it as “a non-starter,” traders and miners who front-ran Ordinals made millions on fee markets.

Money angle: Advanced users can still profit by:

Arbitraging Taproot-enabled transactions (Ordinals/Runes)

Speculating on projects that monetize Bitcoin blockspace

Mining pools that capture higher fees during inscription spikes

The “social attack” Song complains about is also a business model if you know where to look.