Key Path Spend in Taproot
Last Updated on 24. April 2024 by Mario Oettler
A Key Path Spend is very similar to the above mentioned spend with a raw public key.
In Taproot, Q (the witness program) is slightly different. It is a 32 bytes long value that represents the public key according to BIP340 (Schnorr Signatures). The big difference to a raw public key spend is that the public key is tweaked with a value T.
In order to spend the coins from the tweaked public key, you need to provide a signature based on the private key and the tweak t.
You find this part in the output of a transaction. The following figure illustrates it:
