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> On 21 July 2017, bitcoin miners locked-in a software upgrade referred to as Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 91 > By 8 August, another milestone was reache
by marshray 4y ago
> On 21 July 2017, bitcoin miners locked-in a software upgrade referred to as Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 91
> By 8 August, another milestone was reached when 100% of the bitcoin mining pools signaled support
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegWit#Activation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegWit#Activation
- tylersmith 4y agoThat's signaling, built into the end users fully-validating nodes, to coordinate between the miners producing blocks and nodes validating them. The validating nodes are the ones that offered up and then accepted the signaling.
- garydevenay 4y agoSignalling is not consensus I’m afraid…