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The implementation of BIP 340 (which is the proposal to add Schnorr signatures to Bitcoin) would be a soft fork. This is because it is backwards compatible with the existing Bitcoin protocol, meaning that nodes that have not upgraded to the new protocol will still be able to validate transactions that use Schnorr signatures.
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