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SegWit

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SegWit

Summary

SegWit is a soft fork[1]. SegWit draws 51 Wikipedia views per month (soft_fork category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • SegWit's instance of is recorded as soft fork[3].
  • separation is named after SegWit[4].
  • witness is named after SegWit[5].
  • SegWit's logo image is recorded as Segwit.svg[6].
  • SegWit's developer is recorded as Pieter Wuille[7].
  • SegWit's start time is recorded as +2017-08-24T00:00:00Z[8].
  • SegWit's described at URL is recorded as https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki[9].
  • SegWit's described at URL is recorded as https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/upgrades/segregated-witness/[10].
  • SegWit's facet of is recorded as Bitcoin[11].
  • SegWit's facet of is recorded as transaction malleability problem[12].
  • SegWit's facet of is recorded as bitcoin scalability problem[13].
  • SegWit's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/tags/segregated-witness[14].
  • SegWit's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11fy131lgt[15].

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Designation and Status

SegWit's instance of is recorded as soft fork[3].

History and Context

Things named after include separation[4], a key event[16] and witness[5], an evidence[17].

Why It Matters

SegWit draws 51 Wikipedia views per month (soft_fork category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] SegWit has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] SegWit is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Bitcoin Pieter Wuille

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). SegWit. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/segwit
MLA “SegWit.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/segwit.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_segwit_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{SegWit}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/segwit}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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