THIS DAY IN BITCOIN HISTORY
What happened in Bitcoin on August 24: SegWit activates (2017). Plus 2 of Satoshi’s emails and forum posts from this date.
After two years of debate over how to scale, Segregated Witness activates at block 481,824.
This BIP defines a new structure called a "witness" that is committed to blocks separately from the transaction merkle tree. This structure contains data required to check transaction validity but not required to determine transaction effects. In particular, scripts and signatures are moved into this new structure.
BIP 141 · Abstract
If you're so paranoid that you're getting hysterical over this, then surely you're paranoid enough that if a warning message displays on the status bar, you'll check the website and forum. I think if another bug like…
Re: tcatm's 4-way SSE2 for Linux 32/64-bit is in 0.3.10Quote from: ArtForz on August 21, 2010, 04:56:31 PM AMD K10: 2 128bit units intel nehalem: 3 128bit units This probably explains why hyperthreading increases performance with -4way. If three SSE2 units is excessive, t…
We consider the scenario of an attacker trying to generate an alternate chain faster than the honest chain. Even if this is accomplished, it does not throw the system open to arbitrary changes, such as creating value…Read the full quotes ↗
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