BIP 141 (SegWit, 2017)

GPTKB entity

Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Ethereum_Classic_Improvement_Proposal
gptkbp:activatedBy gptkb:BIP9_versionbits
2017-08-24
gptkbp:author gptkb:Pieter_Wuille
gptkbp:category Scalability
Consensus
Malleability
gptkbp:created 2015-12-21
gptkbp:enables gptkb:Lightning_Network
Schnorr signatures (future)
gptkbp:fullName Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 141
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label BIP 141 (SegWit, 2017)
gptkbp:network gptkb:Bitcoin
gptkbp:proposalUrl https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki
gptkbp:proposedBy gptkb:Segregated_Witness
gptkbp:purpose Enable second layer solutions
Fix transaction malleability
Increase block capacity
gptkbp:relatedTo BIP 143
BIP 144
BIP 145
BIP 148
gptkbp:shortName gptkb:BIP_141
gptkbp:softFork Yes
gptkbp:status Final
gptkbp:title gptkb:Segregated_Witness_(Consensus_layer)
gptkbp:type Standards Track
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Bitcoin_mainnet
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8