Segregated Witness Activates on Bitcoin This is What to Expect

The Segregated Witness SegWit soft fork has activated on the Bitcoin network.As of block height 481,824, found at 157 UTCby BTCC, all SegWit ready nodes started enforcing the new SegWit consensus rules. As Bitcoins biggest protocol upgrade to date, this introduces a whole new data structure, which changes the appearance of Bitcoin blocks for upgraded nodes though non-upgraded nodes should continue to function as normal.More concretely, SegWit activation means that Bitcoins block size limit i

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