BIP 91 Has Locked In. Heres What That Means and What It Does Not

It looks as if Bitcoin is getting Segregated Witness.Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 91 BIP 91 just locked in. Up to 90 percent of all hash power signaled support for this soft fork, which implies miners intend, in turn, to trigger Segregated Witness SegWit activation. By extension, this should make BIP 148 obsolete and August 1 a non-event.But SegWit is not certain. In fact, on a technical level, SegWit is not any closer to activation at all.BIP 91Segregated Witness, defined by BIP 141, locks i

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