Sending BTC to a SegWit address requires a compatible Bitcoin wallet and offers benefits like reduced fees and faster transactions. As you navigate through this process, consider using the ...

BitGo says it is changing from default wrapped segwit (P2SH-P2WSH) receive addresses to native segwit (P2WSH), which “require 25% less data to spend — translating to lower fees.” Since the beginning, ...

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, has incorporated Segregated Witness, or SegWit, support for Bitcoin (BTC) deposits. The SegWit support was extended to deposits ...

The Segregated Witness (SegWit) soft fork has activated on the Bitcoin network. As of block height 481,824, found at 1:57 UTC by BTCC, all SegWit ready nodes started enforcing the new SegWit consensus ...

Bitcoin reached a crucial technical and political milestone this week, locking in the long-debated code change Segregated Witness (SegWit). The milestone, advocates hope, will provide a much-needed ...

GreenAddress (and its reimplementation GreenBits), the Bitcoin wallet that was acquired by blockchain infrastructure company Blockstream last year, is the first mobile wallet to offer Segregated ...

Crypto exchange Bitstamp, recognized as one of the 10 exchanges with “real” trading volumes by Bitwise, has added full support for SegWit (bech32) bitcoin addresses. The move will allow Bitstamp’s ...

SegWit faces renewed debate as developers question soft fork limits, governance norms, and Bitcoin’s long term scaling model.

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It’s been over a year since the scaling upgrade known as segregated witness, or SegWit, was activated on the bitcoin network. Even so, only an estimated 36 percent of all bitcoin transactions are ...