SegWit
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thumb|SegWit logo Segregated Witness (SegWit), formally known as Segregated Witness (Consensus layer), is an implemented soft fork change in the transaction format of bitcoin.
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- witness
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- start time
- 2017-08-24
- described at URL
- learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/upgrades/segregated-witness
- Stack Exchange tag
- bitcoin.stackexchange.com/tags/segregated-witness
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Block size limit
- Scalability and malleability
- Scalability
- Malleability
- Segregated witnesses as a solution
- Activation
- SegWit2x
- References
thumb|SegWit logo Segregated Witness (SegWit), formally known as Segregated Witness (Consensus layer), is an implemented soft fork change in the transaction format of bitcoin.
SegWit had Bitcoin Improvement Proposal number BIP141. The declared purpose was to prevent nonintentional bitcoin transaction malleability, allow optional data transmission, and to bypass certain protocol restrictions (such as the block size limit) with a soft fork. Segregated Witness was activated on 24 August 2017.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SegWit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.