Chapter 5: SegWit

-At Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong segregated witness is talked about. SegWit is a way of increasing blocksize without being incompatible (softfork).

-Luke Dashjr figures out hack to make SegWit possible.

-seems like win win but nobody understands it which causes more confusion and division between small and large blockers

-SegWit opens the door for layer-two transaction network, lightning ⚡⚡⚡

-November 2016 SegWit is released in Bitcoin Core

-95% of blocks had to signal support to activate softfork

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