I was recently having a conversation with someone about the new
segregated witness work (terrible name!)
Similar to Core developer Jeff Garzik's BIP 102, Wuille's proposal could provide for a temporary bump to win time before blocks fill up (if
Segregated Witness works and is used as intended)-- but without breaking any of the existing consensus rules.
Not exact matches
We are
working on
Segregated Witness for a few month.
We will be
working in the coming months to implement
Segregated Witness (Segwit) in various parts of our platform.
One of the criticisms against Wuille's
Segregated Witness proposal is that it would take a lot of
work and time to roll out.
With Breadwallet, we've started
working on our implementation and should be ready to try it out on the
Segregated Witness testnet over the next few weeks.»
But since most of these companies are
working on versions of Lightning that rely on
Segregated Witness, these tests were limited to Bitcoin's testnet and Litecoin.
«Existing wallets that don't upgrade will continue to
work, they will just need to pay higher fees because their transactions will be larger than
Segregated Witness transactions.
«I have read the relevant Bitcoin Improvement Proposals in detail, and have started experimenting with
Segregated Witness to get a better feeling for how it
works and how long it might take to adapt it for my projects.
«
Segregated Witness is worth the small effort as the changes are not much
work, and it's a no - brainer compared to a contentious hard fork,» he said.»
Recently, Dorier has been
working on various projects intended to assist developers who wish to implement the upcoming
Segregated Witness (SegWit) improvement in their own wallets, exchanges and other Bitcoin - related services.
During the last months a number of core developers have been
working on integration, testing and optimization of BIP141, in which they
Segregated Witness is described.
The team will be
working in the coming months to implement
Segregated Witness (Segwit) in various parts of the platform.
While
Segregated Witness is not strictly necessary for the lightning network to
work, Lightning Labs pointed out it would significantly benefit the protocol.
Lightning Labs Co-Founder Elizabeth Stark added: «One of the reasons why we wanted to put our software release and blog out there is to show how much better all of this could
work with
Segregated Witness activated.»
While making his case for
Segregated Witness, Lombrozo noted the Bitcoin wallet developers he's
worked with have been able to implement this change in a matter of days.
As mentioned in previous issues of the Weekly Broadcast, the Bitcoin Core developers are currently
working on a «soft - fork» proposal to implement a technique called
Segregated Witness, which solves a number of challenges with the Bitcoin protocol.
«My goal is not really to block
Segregated Witness in and of itself, but to
work towards a Bitcoin version I think is better,» Yang said.
«This doesn't
work for something like
Segregated Witness (SegWit) of course,» he said, referring to a bitcoin code change that fueled a two - year debate in the community over the technical direction of the protocol.
My goal is not really to block
Segregated Witness in and of itself, but to
work towards a Bitcoin version I think is better.
August 2nd update: As BIP148 has locked in and
Segregated Witness seems increasingly likely to activate smoothly, there will almost certainly not be any proof - of -
work change any time soon.
The first and second parts of our three - part
Segregated Witness series covered how it
works and what it does.
News.Bitcoin.com
Segregated Witness has locked - in and the Segwit2x
working group has announced its roadmap for the next three months.
While industry leaders in the Bitcoin economy continue to
work with
Segregated Witness (SegWit) upgrades to the Bitcoin network, Estonian - based Coingaming Group is already miles ahead in embracing Bitcoin's in - development solution to its ongoing scalability issues: Lightning Network.
The roadmap starts with this month, and the deployment of a
segregated witness testnet, «a separate testnet that provides an opportunity for Bitcoin Core contributors to test
segregated witness and for wallet authors to begin
working with it.»
Developers have been hard at
work for months preparing for a roadmap to scaling called
Segregated Witness, which will boost network speed and capacity.
The «BlueCoin 2.0» client, based on the Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 codebase, includes several important changes, such as the activation of
Segregated Witness and the implementation of hybrid Proof - of -
Work / Proof - of - Stake - Velocity (PoW / PoSV) algorithm.
For example, no announcements are expected related to the scaling issue, with
work on a potential solution,
Segregated Witness, still continuing.
We will be
working in the coming months to implement
Segregated Witness (Segwit) in various parts of our platform.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin Core supporters, which, naturally, include the core developers of Bitcoin, advocate a solution called «
Segregated Witness» that would be a «soft fork», i.e. backwards compatible, although it would take more development
work not only for the core but for many other companies in the Bitcoin ecosystem.