
BR029 - SegWit, Taproot, Schnoor, Inscriptions & Witness Discount ft. Andrew Poelstra & Adam Gibson
Bitcoin.Review Podcast with NVK & Guests
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The Problem With Segregated Witnesses
Segway is trying to separate the signature, right, from all the other stuff because they don't have to be together. So in Segway, what we did was we basically, we said, well, the TXID is going to cover all of the normative transaction data that actually shows where did the points come from? Where did they go? You know, what's the fee, that kind of stuff. And we're going to add a new field to the transaction called the witness field. And that witness field is not going to be covered by the TXID. We need to break it apart into this very clever design and I'm pretty sure we would do something to hard fork just
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