Segregated Witness (SegWit) Proposed
Pieter Wuille introduces SegWit, a scaling and malleability fix that becomes a cornerstone of Bitcoin’s roadmap.
On June 22, 2015, Pieter Wuille presented the Segregated Witness (SegWit) proposal, a soft fork solution to transaction malleability and block size efficiency. SegWit promised higher throughput without a contentious hard fork and became a cornerstone of Bitcoin’s scaling roadmap.Its introduction marked a turning point in technical debates, though it would take years to activate.