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Segregated Witness

SegWit separated signature data from the legacy transaction serialization, fixing transaction malleability and enabling more efficient block-space accounting.

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SegWit separated signature data from the legacy transaction serialization, fixing transaction malleability and enabling more efficient block-space accounting.

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BIP 141: Segregated WitnessBitcoin developersBitcoin Improvement ProposalsBitcoin developers

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