Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX added support for native segregated witness (SegWit) addresses for Bitcoin (BTC) withdrawals, which lets users pay lower transaction fees. According to an announcement ...

Witness Discount Explained: How SegWit Reduces Fees, Increases Transaction Capacity, and Enhances Bitcoin’s Scalability Without a Hard Fork. The witness discount refers to the reduction in data ...

Crypto payments processor BitPay now supports segregated witness (SegWit), according to a company blog post shared in advance with CoinDesk. “Support for SegWit is currently an optional feature for ...

One of the Bitcoin (BTC) space’s best-known and most outspoken developers has pledged to advertise Binance for the rest of the year if the exchange implements specific features. In a Twitter debate ...

In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed Segregated Witness, also known as SegWit. SegWit was the last soft fork to have been activated on the ...

The biggest upgrade to the bitcoin network in four years is slated to happen over the weekend. Unlike the last upgrade in 2017, Taproot has received near-universal support in the bitcoin community.

The witness discount refers to the reduction in data “weight” given to the witness portion of a Bitcoin transaction — the part that contains the signatures used to prove ownership. Implemented as part ...