Questions tagged [segregated-witness]
This tag should be used for questions regarding Segregated Witness (segwit), an activated softfork that defined a new transaction format which doesn't include signatures in the transaction identifier (txid).
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How is segwit2x different from segwit?
Today everybody got the news about the potential segwit2x adoption. However, I am trying to understand:
while both of them based on the same segwit principals how they are different? Is it about the ...
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What is block weight and how is it different from block size?
While reading about BIP141, I have encountered the following options:
Block creation options:
-blockmaxweight=<n> Set maximum BIP141 block weight (default: 3000000)
-blockmaxsize=<n> ...
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What happens to bitcoin when Segwit2MB activates?
Specifically what will happen with bitcoin in wallets. Do I have to try and quickly buy "Segwit coins" if the value of bitcoin core drops?
Do I have equal amounts of Segwit and core coins?
If so ...
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Transaction verification by miner VS full node with & without SegWit
I'm trying to fill a few gaps in my understanding of transaction verification and would appreciate any insight.
Without SegWit
Miners broadcast new blocks which contain the signature(s) with every ...
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What will happen on November 15th 2017, when the Segwit proposal expires?
The time duration for the BIP-148 UASF is from August 1st to November 15th. During this time, the BIP-148 nodes will reject blocks that do not signal for Segwit.
Now, after Nov. 15th, even the BIP-...
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Litecoin has had SegWit for one month, what impact did that have?
Litecoin activated SegWit about one month ago on May 10th (block 1201536). What impact did the SegWit activation on Litecoin have? How many blocks have a witness commitment? How many SegWit ...
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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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What is the “witness reserved value” for BIP-141?
BIP-141 defines a witness reserved value as part of a flexible commitment structure:
Double-SHA256(witness root hash|witness reserved value)
The purpose is to support commitments (i.e., data ...
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Which kinds of transactions show quadratic signature-hashing scaling?
It has been stated:
A major problem with simple approaches to increasing the Bitcoin blocksize is that for certain transactions, signature-hashing scales quadratically rather than linearly.
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What does the SegWit2MB proposal agreed upon at Consensus 2017 entail for the bitcoin network?
From what I've read, I know this proposal is the combination of a hardfork to 2MB blocks with the activation of SegWit, but I haven't actually seen the code for this proposal to understand what the ...
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Once SegWit is implemented, could updated miners still choose to ignore SegWit transactions?
Regular transactions can be ignored. What about SegWit transactions?
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What is segregated witness? [duplicate]
I have heard increased talk of an idea known as "segwit" or segregated witness.
Quite simply, what is "segwit", why are people discussing it now and what are its main implications?
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How does BIP9 handle expiration dates over retargeting periods?
Suppose a BIP9 feature is set to expire on day T. Suppose further that the retargeting period before T actually ends on day T+5, but the retargeting period (2016 blocks) actually signals for the BIP9 ...
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Incentives for Segwit vs BTU
I had the (appearntly wrong) impression that miners as a whole would prefer limiting the block size / scalability / TPS in order to increase fees (basically limiting the supply), and users and ...
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Is SegWit a step in the direction toward implementing pegged sidechains into Bitcoin?
Is Segregated Witness a step in the direction toward implementing pegged sidechains into Bitcoin?
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Technical problems in deployment of segwit parallely on bit 4
Recently(as of May 24, 2017) segwit2mb HF has been proposed. A core developer has reported that another deployment of segwit via bip 109 on bit 4 would require code duplication.
Although the above ...
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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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Why does BIP141 define both virtual transaction size and weight?
Why does BIP 141 (segwit) define both virtual transaction size and weight?
Weight seems to be just four times virtual transaction size (or vice versa, depending on what you define first). Why are ...
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What is the point of including the scriptCode of the input in the transaction digest of segwit?
BIP143 specifies "a new transaction digest algorithm".
scriptCode of the input (serialized as scripts inside CTxOuts)
What problems could arise if the scriptCode of the input were not ...
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How would segwit help bitcoin services like, blockstream profit, and miners to loose?
Segwit in the current form,
How would it affect miners except, asicboost?
How would blockstream (other than miners) kind of companies benefit from it, in such a way that miners can't?
I'm looking ...
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Why does segwit save space on the blockchain?
I've had a hard time finding a good source online that explains segwit.
I've read the basic idea is to store the scriptSigs separately as the scriptSig is potentially malleable, and then compute the ...
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How to make Simplecoin's powerpool to support Litecoin Segwit?
I tweek the code transation.py https://github.com/simplecrypto/cryptokit/blob/master/cryptokit/transaction.py#L150 add:
if (self.default_witness_commitment is not None):
data += b'\x00'
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How does a non-upgraded node read a SegWit transaction? [duplicate]
I'm trying to understand how my node would interperet a SegWit transaction if I do not upgrade.
Even if I do not upgrade, I should be ...
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Does Segwit mean easier government monitoring?
I have noticed a steady stream of PR articles talking ad nauseum of the dangers of a contentious hard fork and how miners refusing to signal segwit are screwing us all. Many are quite well written and ...
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Can I get the wallet in bitcoind to use P2SH segwit (on testnet)?
Can I use the wallet functionality in bitcoin cli daemon with P2SH segwit on testnet/regtest? Meaning, can I receive on these addresses and send from them?
And if I can, how?
I cannot find it ...
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Scrypt CPU miner supporting segregated witness (for Litecoin testnet4) [closed]
I am interested in CPU mining on the Litecoin testnet (testnet4); the difficulty level is currently low enough to make this feasible.
The standard Litecoin client no longer supports CPU mining. The ...
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What is preventing segregated witness from being activated
Segregated witness has been around since 2015 with good publicity and proponents since early 2016. It seems to have the benefits of solving transaction malleability, creating a good foundation for the ...
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Does Bitcoin Unlimited keep ASICBOOST intact vs going with segwit?
In light of the new findings about ASICBOOST from bitmain. Having that segwit disables ASICBOOST, does this mean that Bitcoin Unlimited leaves this ASICBOOST feature intact? Having that segwit ...
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What does “NODE_WITNESS (12)” mean as it is shown in bitnodes.21.co?
I'm running a pruned full node of bitcoin core version 0.14.0 and checking on https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/ I can see that my node was labelled "NODE_WITNESS (12)" unlike of the others nodes shown, ...
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Which wallet libraries officially intend to use Bech32 addresses, and will the addresses generated by them be compatible?
I use several bitcoin wallets, and I would like to try Bech32 addresses when they come out.
I initially thought to make a GitHub issue for Greenbits, but it seemed more appropriate to just ask such a ...
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What are the risks of a lower-than-95% activation threshold for soft forks (particularly SegWit)?
95% seems exceptionally conservative, especially given the evidence of vetoing by a subset of Bitcoin miners. What risks does, say, 60% over a longer activation period hold vs 95% for SegWit?
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Can Segregated Witness function in an Emergent Consensus environment?
Same as subject. I've been finding it difficult to find any discussion on the current Emergent Consensus implementation and theory, but I have seen reservations.
Does it adversely impact the ...
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Is SegWit a blocksize increase or more efficient use of blockspace?
This question gets asked frequently on reddit, and I think it would be beneficial to have a canonical answer here:
Is SegWit a blocksize increase or more efficient use of blockspace?
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How is SegWit a soft fork?
Reading this section of BIP144, I noticed the followng statement:
Parsers supporting this BIP will be able to distinguish between the old serialization format (without the witness) and this one. ...
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What is the User Activated Softfork (UASF) proposal? How do its risks compare to hardforks?
The Bitcoin community is abuzz with discussion about shaolinfry's proposal of a UASF to activate SegWit as an alternative to the Version Bits activation. I've seen frequent and extensive discussion of ...
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Are SegWit signatures all required to follow BIP143?
...or is there any way for a SegWit witness to contain a "legacy" signature?
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Will SegWit allow for m of n multisig with very large n and m?
By reading this answer, I understand that in m-of-n multisig addresses, m and n are limited by the maximum size allowed by the P2SH redeemScript (i.e. 520 bytes).
However, in this section of BIP141, ...
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Does the introduction of Schnorr signatures require segwit?
What is the relationship of segwit and Schnorr signatures? Is segwit a prerequisit for Schnorr signatures?
I've read that the transaction versioning of Segregated Witness would allow to just assign ...
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Redeem script for segwit addresses
How does one derive the Redeem Script for the new Pay-to-Witness Pubkey Hash addresses? With existing P2SH it's revealed after providing N number of Public Keys through a createmultisig function in ...
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Why doesn't getblockchaininfo reveal BIP9 signaling statistics?
An example of the output of getblockchaininfo is here:
https://chainquery.com/bitcoin-api/getblockchaininfo
The softforks field describes the number of required / found blocks signaling the soft ...
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How to compute double sha256 shown in examples of bip 143?
How do I compute the double sha256 shown in example of bip 143?
The example in Native P2WPKH
hashPrevouts:
dSHA256(...
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Can old wallets redeem segwit outputs it receives? If so how?
There's some conflicting information out there on whether this is true or not. I'm looking for a technical answer to this in the hopes of clearing up future potential confusion over the matter.
The ...
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Why is segwit support rising so smoothly?
I expect to see some noticeable random steps (e. g. when some relatively large pool on miner starts to support segwit). Instead I see almost perfect linear dependency. Why is that? I am afraid that I ...
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What new JSON-RPC calls are available with SegWit activation?
For example, I can see getblock now returns two fields for a block's size:
size (all data) and strippedsize (base block size, NOT including witness data)
Are there any more RPC updates to interact ...
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How to redeem a p2wsh transaction?
Now we know how to redeem standard P2SH and P2PK transactions, but now since witness scripts are no longer included in transactions, how would script evaluation work under segregated witnesses?
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What is a fraud proof?
In Pieter Wuille's presentation on Segregated Witness, he often mentioned "fraud proofs". What exactly are they? Do physical users actually have to go out of their way to manually produce these proofs ...
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How to produce a p2wsh transaction with bitcoin-cli?
With the impending adoption of segregated witness, users reliant on the bitcoin-cli API would require to reconstruct new methods to re-produce more efficient transactions. Is there some guide out ...
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Is there an address format for P2WPKH or P2WSH?
Is there an address format for P2WPKH or P2WSH? If P2WPKH uses the same address format as P2PKH, how does a wallet know which one to use?
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How to get addresses from scriptPubKey in segwit transactions?
I'm running through raw transaction data, and I'd like to be able to gather addresses (where possible).
So far, I've made this diagram to help me understand when it's possible to figure out addresses ...
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Why are 0.13.1 Core nodes connecting only to Witness (e.g. 0.13.1) nodes?
I have my Core 0.13.1 node configured to connect to 16 nodes, and invariably I see it connected only to other 0.13.1 nodes, even though, according to bitnodes leaderboard, these nodes form a minority.
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