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> a) pay to open up a channel with each person you wish to use it I think you only need a path to the person you want to pay, not a direct channel. eg if Alice

> a) pay to open up a channel with each person you wish to use it I think you only need a path to the person you want to pay, not a direct channel. eg if Alice wants to pay Bob, and they both have a channel to Greg, then Alice can send money to Bob through Greg. > They haven't even implemented segwit yet, The wikipedia[1] page seems to say that most miners implement segwit now. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegWit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegWit

lhl 9y ago
Segwit is still not fully supported in the Core wallet [1] - change goes to P2PKH addresses and there's no GUI support for generating (or even sending to AFAIK) bech32 addresses. While certain charts regulary show 10% usage [2], when analyzing UTXOs, the numbers are a miniscule 0.03% of transactions. [3] [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11403 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11403 [2] http://segwit.party/charts/ http://segwit.party/charts/ [3] https://twitter.com/dukeleto/status/954759096544124928 https://twitter.com/dukeleto/status/954759096544124928