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SegWit

soft fork change in the transaction format of Bitcoin
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Summary

SegWit is a soft fork[1].

Key Facts

  • Named after: separation[2], witness[3]
  • Developer: Pieter Wuille[4]
  • Start time: August 24, 2017[5]
  • Facet of: Bitcoin[6], transaction malleability problem[7], bitcoin scalability problem[8]

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History and Context

Things named after include separation[2], a key event[9] and witness[3], an evidence[10].

Related Entities

Bitcoin Pieter Wuille

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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [9] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_segwit_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{SegWit}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/segwit}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-01}}
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