Segregated Witness
Transactions
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A Bitcoin protocol upgrade that separates signature (witness) data from the transaction's main structure. SegWit increases effective capacity and fixes certain malleability issues.
Appears in 4 whitepaper sections
$BCH
Bitcoin Cash
Abstract
...ocated for off-chain scaling solutions such as the Lightning Network built atop Segregated Witness (SegWit), another faction argued that increasing the block size limit was the m...
Background: The Scaling Debate
...ation among well-resourced entities. They proposed an alternative scaling path: Segregated Witness (SegWit), a protocol change that restructured transaction data to effectively i...
The Fork
... two separate chains: the original chain, which continued as Bitcoin (BTC) with SegWit activation, and the new chain, which became Bitcoin Cash (BCH) with an increase...
Technical Specifications
... approximately 32 times the transaction capacity of Bitcoin's effective 1MB non-SegWit block size (or roughly 8 times the capacity of Bitcoin's SegWit-enhanced effect...