Latest SegWit News

Editorial 16 July 2020

The Risks of Segregated Witness: Problems under Evidence Laws

SegWit raises legal questions because it would enable full digital signature data to be dropped from the transaction data.

Editorial 24 December 2019

Is someone going to steal Greg Maxwell’s BSV?

The P2SH deprecation in the Genesis is not going to introduce a replay confiscation of coins allowing “anyone-can-spend” attacks to be used against unclaimed BSV sitting in old BTC or BCH wallets.

Editorial 8 June 2019

Calling them what they are: SegWitCoin BTC and Dark Coins

To avoid Bitcoin terminology confusion, CoinGeek editorial team has made the decision to standardize the digital asset known as Bitcoin Core (BTC).

Editorial 17 January 2019

Bitcoin Core’s SegWit still not viable a year after being introduced

Now, we’re looking at SegWit and wondering why, over a year after it was going to “rock the crypto world,” it is still floundering, not able to achieve the success its developers anticipated.

Editorial 2 July 2018

Segregated Witness removes one of Bitcoin’s data integrity checks

Breaking the chain of digital signatures is actually removing an integrity check in the Bitcoin ledger, according to developer Jonald Fyookball.

Editorial 6 March 2018

BTC transaction volume hits two-year low

BTC transaction fees are dropping, but not for the right reasons.

Tech 5 March 2018

Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 is finally released with full Segwit support

the development team responsible for the Segwit fork of Bitcoin, finally released an update to their client, featuring full support for Segregated Witness.

Business 7 February 2018

Damage control: Coinbase set for full SegWit activation amid BTC crash

Coinbase has begun the final testing phase of SegWit for BTC on their platform, with a target activation within Q1 2018.

Events 5 November 2017

Scaling Bitcoin Conference Day 1

The Scaling Bitcoin conference was filled w/ students, experts, & researchers, gathering to present & discuss various improvements to Bitcoin.

Tech 3 November 2017

The war of two SegWits: the SegWit vs SegWit2x saga simplified

What the fork is going on?

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