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ForkLog 28 25.05.2022

How SegWit, Lightning and Batching Lower Bitcoin Transaction Fees

ForkLog examined the reasons behind the significant decline in Bitcoin network fees.

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ForkLog 4 17.08.2020

Litecoin SegWit transactions exceed 80% of network activity

80% of transactions in the Litecoin network are conducted using the Segregated Witness protocol, while Bitcoin's share stands at 50%. This was reported by the creator of 'digital silver', Charlie Lee.

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ForkLog 10 01.08.2020

Bitcoin Independence Day: Community marks the third anniversary of UASF activation

On August 1, 2017, a user-activated soft fork (UASF) was activated on the Bitcoin network, enabling the activation of the Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol. This date is celebrated in the community as Bitcoin Independence Day.

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ForkLog 6 30.07.2020

Study: SegWit and batching could save Bitcoin users around 58,000 BTC

The adoption of Bitcoin scaling solutions by all infrastructure participants in the cryptocurrency industry would save users nearly 58,000 BTC (more than $630 million at the time of writing). Analysts from the Veriphi startup reached this conclusion.

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ForkLog 279 31.07.2018

Emercoin Adds Support for Segregated Witness, New Wallet Released

Emercoin blockchain developers have released 16 updates including support of Segregated Witness (SegWit) protocol. Also a new Emercoin wallet version has been released to match the new rules of the blockchain and dSDKs.

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ForkLog 476 19.01.2018

Bitrefill CEO Sergej Kotliar: Bitcoin’s Future is Very Bright

Sweden-based bitcoin startup Bitrefill focused on topping up mobile phone accounts and selling gift cards has garnered some attention from the community in the recent months after implementing some innovative solutions.

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ForkLog 20 25.04.2017

What is Segregated Witness?

1 What is Segregated Witness? Segregated Witness, or SegWit (literally “segregated witness”), is an implemented upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team. Its aim is to optimise block capacity, which in turn should help address Bitcoin’s scalability, block congestion, confirmation speed and fees. Put simply, SegWit increases blockchain efficiency without increasing the block size.

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ForkLog 285 18.04.2017

Not Just Bitcoin: Top 6 Altcoins Supporting Segregated Witness

SegWit might be one of the burning issues concerning Bitcoin’s scaling up, however, it has gone beyond the first cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 114 01.07.2016

Chinese Ultimatum: Miners Discuss Switching to Bitcoin Classic

Bitcoin scalability debate gained steam as 8btc.com published details of the Bitcoin Classic implementation proposal discussed by miners of China.

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ForkLog 132 24.06.2016

Lightning, Halving and ToTheMoon

On June 6, bitcoin miners have produced block #415,000. It means that mining reward will halve in less than 5,000 blocks or 42 days.

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ForkLog 98 15.04.2016

New Bitcoin Core Release: TimeLocks, Scripts, and Other Features of v 0.12.1

Bitcoin Core developers have announcedÂ they release the new version of Bitcoin network client numbered 0.12.1. The release features a new mechanism of soft-fork deployment BIP9, which in turn activates proposals BIP68, BIP112, and BIP113. More About the BIPs BIP68 allows miners to prohibit a transaction until a specified moment in time or until the transaction […]

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ForkLog 72 21.02.2016

The Bitcoin Roundtable Proposes Hard-Fork Timeline

Following an 18 hour-long meeting in Hong Kong, a group of miners representing nearly 80% of the network’s hash power, alongside with representatives of several prominent exchanges, issued a timeline for introducing a hard-fork solution.

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