Since the mining community has already agreed to activate SegWit
via Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP 91 and 141, the original SegWit proposal, SegWit is likely to be activated on the Bitcoin network by Aug. 14.
Segregated Witness (SegWit), the Bitcoin protocol upgrade proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team, was originally designed to activate
via the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol 9 (BIP 9) standard, a hash - power signalling mechanism.
Not exact matches
In the past, some have criticized
Bitcoin Core contributors» preference for implementing Segregated Witness
via a soft fork due to the perceived complexity involved with the code involved in making these
improvements.
DIP0001 implementation (which is a 2 MB block upgrade); Transaction fee reduction 10x (activates
via DIP0001 activation); InstantSend vulnerability fix (activates
via DIP0001 lock in); PrivateSend
improvement which should allow user to have mixed funds available much faster; Various RPC changes; Lots of backports from
Bitcoin Core and refactoring of our own legacy code which should improve performance and make code more reliable and easier to review; Experimental HD wallet with BIP39 / BIP44 support.
That said,
Bitcoin utilizes a BIP or
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal as the de facto way of introducing features (
via Github).