If you've opened a Bitcoin wallet and been asked to choose between a "Legacy," "SegWit," or "Native SegWit" address with no explanation of what any of it means, that choice traces back to a single ...

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 ...

It’s been over a year since the scaling upgrade known as segregated witness, or SegWit, was activated on the bitcoin network. Even so, only an estimated 36 percent of all bitcoin transactions are ...

On August 1, 2017, the Bitcoin community was scheduled to initiate the network’s first user-activated soft fork (UASF). The novel concept, proposed by the pseudonymous Bitcoin and Litecoin developer ...