Questions tagged [witness-data]
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Would signature aggregation reduce the largest feasible blocksize
If a Schnorr signature aggregation scheme were to be integrated into Bitcoin. Would the reduction in witness data versus non witness data (need less bytes for a signature therefore witness data usage ...
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How do virtual size, stripped size and raw size compare between legacy address formats and native segwit?
This answer states that SegWit doesn't reduce transaction size. If this is true, why is it cheaper to send a SegWit transaction?
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Why is the wtxid considered malleable?
Why is the wtxid considered malleable since the transaction is unconfirmed?
How can a third-party modify it?
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Does my segwit node only have segwit bocks?
My segwit node makes a gettxout RPC query and checks the scriptPubKey.type is "witness_v0_keyhash" and does things accordingly.
To my understanding old nodes have different blocks and if I happened ...
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How does a SegWit node verify a block?
I know that non-SegWit node could verify a block without witness.
For SegWit node, is witness necessary to verify a block? Because I know witness are committed as wtxid merkle node in coinbase. What'...
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What happens to witness blocks?
What happens to witness blocks after they are broadcast to other witness nodes? Are they kept or forgotten after some blocks?
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How much will Segwit *actually* increase bitcoin capacity for realistic transactions?
I often see claims that Segwit increases transactions per block by 1.7x to 2x. I'm not sure if this is true, but if I do the math myself, I don't get this number.
My understanding is:
1) The “weight”...
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How much will Segwit increase the number of transactions that can fit in each block?
How much weight would the witness data have on the total block size? What is the culminating effect of this on the number of transactions that can fit into each block?
Thanks in advance :)
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Parsing a SegWit transaction, what are stack items in witness data
For every input we can have multiple stack items, what do these represent?
As a reference this question is helpful
Are these defined here?
For eg. P2WPKH would have a signature followed by a pubkey, (...
