Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin Reaches Major Scaling Milestone as Users Adopt Upgrade
Bitcoin: What’s Coming in the Year Ahead
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Bitcoin has quietly reached a major milestone in its quest to reach the masses.
Segregated Witness, or SegWit, the software upgrade designed to speed up Bitcoin transactions, is gaining traction. The number of transactions using the technology doubled to more than 30 percent in just the past three days, according to the SegWit.Party website, which tracks the data. The following chart shows the percentage of transactions using SegWit in the past week.