Segregated Witness (SegWit)

GPTKB entity

Statements (29)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Bitcoin protocol upgrade
gptkbp:abbreviation gptkb:SegWit
gptkbp:activatedBy 2017-08-24
gptkbp:category soft fork
gptkbp:changes transaction format
gptkbp:enables gptkb:Lightning_Network
lower transaction fees
bech32 address format
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Segregated Witness (SegWit)
gptkbp:improves blockchain efficiency
security against transaction malleability attacks
gptkbp:introducedIn gptkb:Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposal_141_(BIP141)
gptkbp:proposedBy gptkb:Pieter_Wuille
gptkbp:purpose fix transaction malleability
increase block capacity
enable second-layer solutions
gptkbp:reduces transaction size
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:BIP141
gptkb:Lightning_Network
gptkb:BIP143
gptkb:BIP144
gptkb:BIP173
Bitcoin scalability problem
transaction malleability
gptkbp:removes witness data from main block
gptkbp:usedBy gptkb:Bitcoin
gptkb:Litecoin
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Pieter_Wuille
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6