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December 23, 2015, 01:21:21 PM
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SegWit-based Proposal Garners over 30 Signatures of Bitcoin Core Developers

The notorious block size debate is about to gain yet another dimension following the release of a “road map” conceptualized by Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell. The proposed solution is based on his idea of a “segregated witness”, or SegWit, and essentlially offers separate processing of signatures.

In a few words, the proposal leaves signatures processing to fully validating nodes only, while other nodes will be ignoring them. This would lead to a huge increase in efficiency, as now signatures account for 60% of the Blockchain.


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