BIP 0144 - Segregated Witness (Peer Services)

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Data sheet for Segregated Witness (Peer Services)

Title	Segregated Witness (Peer Services)
Layer	Peer Services
Author	Eric Lombrozo, Pieter Wuille
Comments-Summary	No comments yet.
Comments-URI	https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0144
Staus	Final
Type	Standards Track
Created	2016-01-08
Post History
Description	https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0144.mediawiki
License	PD

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Abstract

" //This BIP defines new messages and serialization formats for propagation of transactions and blocks committing to segregated witness structures.//

Motivation

In addition to defining witness structures and requiring commitments in future blocks (BIP141 - Consensus segwit BIP), new mechanisms must be defined to allow peers to advertise support for segregated witness and to relay the witness structures and request them from other peers without breaking compatibility with older nodes.