Wirex will only be
supporting the SegWit soft fork with SegWit enabled wallets; so you send BTC cheaply and quickly!
It's also worth noting that some of the companies that are against Bitcoin Unlimited are not even
supporting SegWit.
By
supporting SegWit addresses, Bitfinex is tackling two of the biggest crypto - enthusiast headaches: high transaction fees and long wait times.
Of all of the wallets currently
supporting SegWit, BitPay recommends the Electrum Wallet for reliably paying BitPay invoices.
But Charlie Shrem, another early bitcoin entrepreneur who now
supports the SegWit solution, focuses on the fact that the software has stood firm amid the chaos.
Nodes which fail to upgrade to
support Segwit will face major security risks, including the risk of double - spend transaction fraud.
Please
support SegWit in any way you can.»
To fully
support SegWit, Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 incorporates a new address format, including Bech32, which according to experts is more user - friendly than the P2sh format.
Our block explorer, Blockchain.info, has
supported SegWit from the day it activated.
Though, Jackie added, «We're in the process of updating our Electrum version for Groestlcoin to
support SegWit transactions.
Desktop, iOS, and Android: All our wallets» GitHub master branches
support SegWit already, and recently we finalised some integration testing with hardware wallets such as Ledger to make sure it all works.»
«We do plan to
support SegWit.
If
you support SegWit on Litecoin, talk to your wallets and exchanges about supporting UASF.
As a reminder, the reason to
support SegWit is because it is clearly the best blocksize limit increase proposal, based on technical merit, not because of who proposed it.
And they do not
support SegWit.
NBitcoin has
supported SegWit since January, but bitcoinj maintainer Andreas Schildbach (whose work is now sponsored by Bloq) wants to wait for the code to evolve further.
We are glad to announce that from now on HitBTC
supports SegWit technology.
After BIP 91 was locked in, a group of developers, miners and users suddenly announced that an altcoin known as Bitcoin Cash (or BCH *) will be created, a fork from the current Bitcoin branch and it will (among other things) not
support Segwit.
From now on, we fully
support the SegWit technology to improve the Bitcoin network capacity and reduce the network fees.
But Chinese mining pool ViaBTC, currently representing some 8 percent of hash power on the Bitcoin network, has indicated it will not
support SegWit activation.
After this two - week period, miners who have upgraded their software to
support SegWit will create blocks that enforce the new rules.
On 7th June, hardware wallet provider Trezor announced that its beta series of products would
support SegWit for litecoin.
A number of services are already primed to
support SegWit, including one of the most - used wallets, bitcoin startup Blockchain, as well as major bitcoin exchanges Kraken and LocalBitcoins.
This legal uncertainty is a significant risk of SegWit that bitcoin community members have not weighed - but definitely need to consider - before they decide whether to
support SegWit (or Segwit2x).
Major crypto exchanges have recently moved to
support SegWit, including GDAX and Bitfinex, however.
Any Bitcoin block that does not
supports SegWit will get rejected and will be added in the other chain.
The nodes that want to make sure the transaction is valid need to request this data separately by having software which
supports the SegWit approach installed, like Bitcoin Core.
In this way, it's not so surprising that, while 0.15.0 focused on performance upgrades to prepare for SegWit, the new software itself doesn't
support SegWit transactions.
iOS Android Windows GreenAddress owns the rights to say that they were the first mobile Bitcoin wallet to
support SegWit.
While Bitcoin Core contributors, for example, are supportive of upgrading bitcoin to
support SegWit, many are wary of doing it the way BIP 148 lays out.
Bitcoin currently doesn't fully
support SegWit, but some time soon, it will.
Meanwhile, LTC1BTC founder Jiang Zhuoer stated that his pool, which controls 10 % of the network, will not
support the SegWit update.
Largest US cryptocurrency wallet and exchange Coinbase has confirmed it «plans» to
support SegWit transactions in 2018.
In contrast, many bitcoin wallets already
support SegWit, as they've been anticipating the change for over a year, so it's likely bitcoin will see more use of the feature.
As we have officially stated previously, our team strongly
supports SegWit as the best Bitcoin scaling solution, and we therefore maintain a close eye on BIP148 (UASF).»
OKCoin did not join the statement, but its founder also agreed to
support both SegWit and BU tokens if the hard fork happens.
Some other major exchanges already
support SegWit, these including Bitstamp, Japan's new US - focussed platform BitFlyerUSA and now p2p trading directory Localbitcoins.
Some other major exchanges already
support SegWit, these including Bitstamp, Japan's new US - focussed platform BitFlyerUSA and now p2p trading directory
Coinbase's professional trading platform GDAX now
supports SegWit scaling upgrade for transactions on the Bitcoin network.
The new chain will exclude any nodes or miners that do not
support segwit.
The launch will kick off a process by which the extended stakeholders in the distributed network will be asked to signal whether
they support SegWit.
Pioneered by Core contributors Greg Maxwell and Pieter Wuille, it's a new address format with far better UX than older address types as
it supports SegWit automatically.
Bitfinex and Coinbase now
support SegWit.
BIP91 Locks In The lock in of the BIP91 proposal means that as long as 51 % of the network hash power continues to mine blocks that
support SegWit, the protocol will activate and there will be no risk of a major chain split.
The idea is all nodes running BIP 148 would begin rejecting blocks from miners who do not
support Segwit.
GreenAddress has
supported SegWit in its testnet environment for a long time now, and with SegWit now locked in on the main chain, the company has deployed the changes needed to enable this to the main service.
Not exact matches
According to tracking site Blockchain.Info, a little more than 40 percent of miners are currently signaling their
support for Bitcoin Unlimited, compared with only 30 percent signaling for
SegWit.
In order to prevent invalid transactions from reaching your service, you must configure your Bitcore node to only connect to a boundary node which
supports the new
Segwit rules.
This is why they are against on chain scaling, and why
segwit offers as little of it as possible while
supporting their «HF are bad» narrative.
Compared to
Segwit, Bitcoin Unlimited has achieved a high and notable
support in the bitcoin community.