Most Major Bitcoin Wallets Plan SegWit Support
Most major Bitcoin wallet service providers, exchanges and startups have either planned Segregated Witness (SegWit) support or are SegWit support ready. The Bitcoin Core development team recently updated its list of 73 Bitcoin startups that have announced their plans to support SegWit. Amongst the list was popular Bitcoin wallet service providers Blockchain.info, AirBitz, Armory, BreadWallet, Trezor, Samourai Wallet, Ledger hardware wallet, Electrum, GreenAddress, KeepKey and Mycelium. Various mining pools including Slush, Bitfury, BTCC, CGMiner and CKPool signalled SegWit support, as well....
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