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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SegWit and SPV-mining. What if…?
Is the following scenario valid?
Some unhonest segwit mining pool takes top-1000 segwit utxo and mines a block at height N with a transaction which transfers all funds to his p2pkh address
This block ...
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Why is the witness data fee discounted by a factor of four?
I've read that it encourages users to consolidate UTXO sets. How would it be doing that?
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How thoroughly has Segregated Witness been tested?
I've encountered claims that Segregated Witness was "not really tested" and is being "rushed".
It is my understanding that SegWit had been running on Elements for more than half a year already, and ...
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Can unupgraded nodes that accept zero confirmation be fooled after SegWit?
Considering the following scenario:
After deployment of SegWit, there remain two old clients (with software that is unaware of SegWit) A & B.
A funds a transaction to pay B using a SegWit ...
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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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What are the segregated witness tradeoffs?
Segregated witnesses sound like a win in a lot of ways, I'm just trying to understand how they apply to scalability. If I understand correctly, there is a second Merkle tree of witnesses mirroring the ...
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What is “segregated witness” and how can it improve network scalability?
I've just heard about it, and it is claimed to be a "turning point" in the block-size debate.
What is "segregated witness?" how does it work?
How can it be used for improving network scalability?
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