3 Months Since SegWit Signalling Began, 54% of Miners Still Haven’t Voted
SegWit, for example, requires roughly 95% network consensus. That number seems unrealistic right now, yet things may change in the future. One of the biggest “battles” going on in the bitcoin world goes between BU and SegWit. Three months ago, signalling for Segregated Witness was officially introduced on the bitcoin network. Things aren’t going as smoothly as people want it to, though. It appears as if SegWit support is dwindling slightly, while the majority of miners still don’t indicate a preference for either solution. A new chart surfaced on Twitter earlier today indicating how SegWit....
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Bitfury is reported is to have mined a block supporting the BIP 148 proposal, effectively signalling a user-activated softfork (UASF) for SegWit. As the debate surrounding bitcoin’s block size continues, many are moving in various directions supporting the one they believe holds the answer to bitcoin’s future scaling. Recently, Bitcoin Unlimited (BU), had around 40 percent support despite reports saying that BU is controversial, splitting the community in two with those for and against it. A few weeks ago, though, an alias named Shaolin Fry introduced the idea of SegWit UASF, which would....
One thing people have to keep in mind is how Segregated Witness has an actual expiration date. Now that SegWit activation signalling has begun, it will be interesting to see which pools support Bitcoin Core. On the first day, support is quite lacklustre, with only three pools in favor. The vast majority of pools have not expressed their preference yet, and there is still a long way to go. But it goes to show reaching 95% consensus is not only doubtful, it is highly unrealistic Whether or not one favors SegWit over anything else, a block size solution has to be formed. So far, BTCC,....
In the past, some have called Litecoin the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold.” Now many Bitcoin proponents are eagerly watching Litecoin as miners have just begun signaling for Segregated Witness (Segwit). Bitcoin community members hope Litecoin’s Segwit implementation may show a silver lining beneath the ongoing scaling debate. Litecoin Miners Begin to Signal....
Segregated Witness (SegWit), the Bitcoin protocol upgrade proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team, was originally designed to activate via the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol 9 (BIP 9) standard, a hash-power signalling mechanism. This would allow the Bitcoin ecosystem to coordinate the upgrade relatively safely through miner readiness. But with the SegWit proposal in particular, BIP 9 no longer serves just to signal readiness. Miners as well as users increasingly see BIP 9 as a sort of miner vote on the desirability of the protocol upgrade. And some miners even seem to utilize it as a....
Last week, Bitcoin Core version 0.13.1 was released, officially bringing Segregated Witness (SegWit) to Bitcoin. 4 days in, 13.7% of Bitcoin nodes has already upgraded to Bitcoin Core 0.13.1, supporting the activation of SegWit. SegWit is an innovative scaling technology developed and introduced by the Bitcoin Core development team. Once it reaches a soft fork activation threshold, it will separate the transaction signatures from the initial transactional data, which immediately increases the capacity of blocks and eliminate transaction malleability. Like all soft forks, the SegWit release....