The SegWit scaling proposal was meant to overcome the Bitcoin blocksize limit of 1 MB.
Jimmy Nguyen of nChain provides an opinion on possible legal issues with
the SegWit scaling proposal should it activate on bitcoin's network.
Not exact matches
As Bitcoin
scaling is knowing the door now, Hardfork (Bitcoin Unlimited — BU) and
Segwit are the two important
proposals of
scaling.
Controversial
scaling proposal Segwit2x tried to remedy this by joining two code change ideas - the code optimization Segregated Witness (
SegWit) and a block size increase.
Breakdown by Company The
scaling debate in which two predominant Bitcoin improvement
proposals,
SegWit and Bitcoin Unlimited, are competing for miners» support is becoming more and more intense.
One of the
scaling proposals,
SegWit2x, rolled out a beta protocol over the weekend in a bid to activate
SegWit and introduce a 2 MB hard fork network upgrade several weeks from now.
Meanwhile, while these
proposals were being put forward and tested, a group of major Bitcoin miners who previously supported the
SegWit2x
proposal decided that deploying
SegWit without increasing the block size would not be sustainable, as it would simply delay the
scaling issue due to the size limit.
SegWit2x and BIP148 are two of the most popular
scaling proposals that intend to activate Segregated Witness («
SegWit») within a month.
The Bitcoin Core development team's proposed
scaling solution, called Segregated Witness (
SegWit), would separate signature data («witnesses») from transaction data, and a new solution,
Segwit2x, builds upon that
proposal.
The
scaling debate in which two predominant Bitcoin improvement
proposals,
SegWit and Bitcoin Unlimited, are competing for miners» support is becoming more and more intense.
The Bitcoin Core team presented a
scaling proposal that needed a 95 % approval rate from the miner community, called
SegWit (Segregated Witnesses).
When BTC1, the protocol implementation based on the New York Agreement, agreed to implement the BIP91 «kludge,» the two main
scaling proposals were potentially aligned in compatibility to activate
SegWit — if miners would activate the soft fork in time.
As tensions resulting from Bitcoin Unlimited's growing dominance started to boil over, two further
proposals soon emerged that has today taken center stage in the
scaling debate: a user - activated soft fork for the «mandatory activation of
segwit deployment» as specified in BIP148, and
SegWit2x.
The two major
scaling proposals,
SegWit and Bitcoin Unlimited (BU), are currently
One
scaling solution in particular, Bitcoin Improvement
Proposal 148 («BIP 148»), is scheduled to trigger activation of Segregated Witness (
SegWit) on August 1, 00:00 UTC.
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Segwit is a
scaling proposal by Bitcoin Core that looks to solve the network congestion without increasing the blocksize.
ViaBTC's latest blog post sheds some light on why the mining pool is opposing the Bitcoin
scaling proposal,
SegWit.
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In contrast to user - activated soft fork, BIP 91 is a miner - activated soft fork, which will activate
SegWit, a transaction malleability fix and
scaling solution developed by the Bitcoin Core development team at an 80 percent activation threshold, as listed on the
SegWit2x
proposal.