Bitcoin & Mining

Segregated Witness (SegWit)

Also: SegWit

A 2017 Bitcoin upgrade that moved signature data out of the main transaction body. It fit more transactions per block, fixed a flaw called transaction malleability, and paved the way for the Lightning Network.

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