SegWit to Spread Further with Bitcoin Core 0.16.0
Bitcoin Core’s long-awaited version 0.16.0 was released on February 27, significantly earlier than its initially planned release date in May.
Among the wide-ranging enhancements in version 0.16.0, the most important is that the cryptocurrency wallet now supports SegWit.
In addition to nested SegWit addresses starting with 3, it also supports the new system of native SegWit addresses starting with bc1.
The backend systems of many bitcoin services already use Bitcoin Core but updating to the
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