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After Years of Resistance, BitPay Adopts SegWit for Cheaper Bitcoin Transactions

Payments processor BitPay has added support for SegWit, three years after a competing block size proposal fractured the Bitcoin community.

Updated May 9, 2023, 3:09 a.m. Published Jul 2, 2020, 1:00 p.m.
SegWit inventor Pieter Wuille speaks in 2015. (Scaling Bitcoin)
SegWit inventor Pieter Wuille speaks in 2015. (Scaling Bitcoin)