What to expect about SegWit2x? SegWit2x is canceled but it’s still possible to be implemented in the near future. Specialists point out that this update has some weak points. The main problem is a ...

SegWit is short for Segregated Witness. It was perhaps the biggest Bitcoin protocol upgrade to date, which wrapped several improvements and fixes into one. As probably its most notable fix, SegWit got ...

Witness Discount Explained: How SegWit Reduces Fees, Increases Transaction Capacity, and Enhances Bitcoin’s Scalability Without a Hard Fork. The witness discount refers to the reduction in data ...

Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX added support for native segregated witness (SegWit) addresses for Bitcoin (BTC) withdrawals, which lets users pay lower transaction fees. According to an announcement ...

Bitcoin split in two in August when the digital currency officially forked creating Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin gold was created when bitcoin forked again in October. And now the SegWit2x fork is looming.

Developer Pieter Wiulle first presented the idea at the Scaling Bitcoin conference in December 2015. Many hailed it as a long-awaited solution to bitcoin’s scaling problem. The maximum block size in ...