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What is it that makes BIP149 safer to activate than BIP148?
There are currently two BIPs floating to enable a "user activated softfork" of Segregated Witness.
BIP148 is meant to activate by flag day on August 1st 2017 whereas enforcing nodes stop accepting ...
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Segregated witness soft fork: how is the funding Tx made "ANYONECANSPEND"
Reading the BIP:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0142.mediawiki
I see that the scriptPubKey in a transaction that funds a segwit redemption is the same as a normal P2PKH but merely ...
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Can BIP91 cause a chain split?
BIP91 forces BIP141 signaling, the blocks that do not signal BIP141 will be rejected by those who are pro-BIP91.
The minority of miners that do not support BIP91 (and by extension BIP141), could start ...
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How to track UASF support?
It's easy to see that currently 50% of the hashrate supports Segwit.
It's also simple to find that about 1000 nodes are supporting it. But I can't seem to figure out how significant that amount is, ...
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Were anyone-can-spend transactions valid before SegWit?
Non-segwit nodes (legacy nodes) see segwit transactions as anyone-can-spend (ACS) transactions. It is clear that such a nodes can (and do) validate blocks containing ACS transactions, because the ...
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How do we "exchange coins on one blockchain for those on the other"?
With Segwit and BIP-148 coming, I have been trying to figure out what's exactly gonna happen with Bitcoin after August 1, by watching videos and reading articles. One thing (among many others) ...
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How is segwit a softfork if old node blocks can be rejected?
My question is a continuation of this one:
Why non-SegWit nodes do not reject SegWit block since there is no witness?
It says:
“If so, what prevents it to be spent by anyone not the intended
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SegWit Soft Fork
my question is in relation to SegWit backwards compatibility.
Based on the way SegWit script is constructed, just 0 and a public key, makes it spendable by anyone. The only thing that stops it are ...
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Does adding OP_1 to scriptSig create a fork between non-segWit and segWit nodes?
According to this, when the scriptPubKey equals to:
OP_n (with n between 0 and 16, inclusive) followed by a direct push of exactly 2 to 40 bytes inclusive
... it denotes the start of SegWit validating ...
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Is there an oveview of organizations support of segwit/segwit2X?
I'm trying to get an overview of what parts of the ecosystem that support what, preferably by economic activity. Is there any good lists or overviews?
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How do I store coins during the bitcoin segwit2x hard fork?
Where should I securely store my coins during the fork? A Legacy address or a Segwit address?
I keep them on a Segwit address right now but I want to be sure that the fork won't affect my funds if ...
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What is impact of the possible nitwit fork on August 1? Will it double the coins I have?
If the Nitwit proposal is activated at the end of July then as I understand a hard fork will occur because miners and nodes that continue using the old software will generate blocks in the old format, ...
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Where can I buy bitcash
Is there any where I can buy bitcash ahead of the fork? Or do I need to keep my bitcoin in wallets that won't signal SegWit?
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Could miners possibly steal SegWit transactions on The Real Bitcoin? [closed]
Going to be lolz epic when all the SegWit transactions are double-spent, i.e. stolen by miners on The Real Bitcoin (the legacy Satoshi blockchain).
Can anyone offer any refutation, confirmation, or ...
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