Originally published at: https://www.channel-sea.cc/only-6-of-18-exchanges-have-fully-adopted-bitcoin-segwit-update-cryptoslate/
Segregated Witness, or SegWit for short, is a Bitcoin protocol extension that was activated on the network in August 2017. The primary reason for introducing SegWit is to increase the scalability of the Bitcoin blockchain. Before SegWit was activated, the Bitcoin network often ran into congestion issues due to users filling up the one-megabyte block…