Segregated Witness

Segwit Moves Closer to Full Proposal for Bitcoin as Accusations of Politicking Flare

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Segregated Witness (Segwit), proposed as a solution to bitcoin’s block size debate, is 99% a full proposal, a development that hasn’t occurred without some controversy. Many expect Segwit to increase the volume of transactions without altering the block size. The change will ultimately be triggered with a soft fork, in which the majority of the […]

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Bitcoin Scalability: An Inside Look at Lightning’s Race to Save the Day

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With the halving looming and transaction capacity maxed out, some are predicting a doomsday scenario. Much, therefore, depends on the Lightning Network. A “decentralized network using smart contract functionality in the blockchain to enable instant payments” which is capable of an amazing “millions to billions of transactions per second” according to the Lightning Network’s website. […]

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Bitcoin Core Launches Sponsorship Program To Support R&D

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Bitcoin Core, the open source project that maintains bitcoin client software called “Bitcoin Core,” has launched a sponsorship program in an effort to involve more of the cryptocurrency community in the project. The sponsorship program provides a way for the industry to support research, projects and development. Some of the more overlooked aspects of the […]

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The Block Size Debate From A Miner’s Perspective

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In a clearly stated analysis and opinion blog post about the costs and benefits of doing either a hard fork to a 2 MB block size limit versus going with the “Hong Kong Compromise” Segregated Witness (Segwit) upgrade, Sam Cole offers the perspective from that of a Bitcoin miner in what options lie ahead. From a […]

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Ledger Presents Use Of Segregated Witness For Hardware Wallets

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Ledger, a provider of hardware solutions which offers the Ledger Nano hardware wallet, recently posted a blog on Medium addressing the use of Segregated Witness for hardware wallets. Pieter Wuille, a bitcoin core developer, presented his Segregated Witness proposal at the Scaling Bitcoin in Hong Kong. Hardware wallets protect bitcoin keys to make sure bitcoin […]

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