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Segregated Witness (SegWit)

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Witness data separation that fixed key malleability issues and increased block capacity efficiency.

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Curated resources (4)

• BIP 141: Segregated Witness (article) Canonical specification.
• Bitcoin Optech Topic: Segregated Witness (article) Operational implications and ecosystem updates.
• Bitcoin Dev Network: Native SegWit Guide (article) Implementation-oriented walkthrough.
• Programming Bitcoin (book) Good bridge from raw transaction serialization to witness-era script behavior.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Transaction Malleability

Direct dependents (6)

• Block Weight and Virtual Bytes
• Payment Channels
• SegWit Activation
• SegWit Witness Commitment
• Statechains
• Taproot

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