Summer of SegWit: Bitcoin Core Begins Segregated Witness Soft Fork

It is going to be a wild summer for the price of Bitcoin. The only certainty in the space will be change.
Watching the roller coaster is fine for the speculators out there, but maybe new protocol reinforcements will help spur prices higher, and stabilize the environment. The much-hyped Segregated Witness application is about to be brought into play, if it hasn’t already, by the Bitcoin Core developers.
Confirming the unconfirmed
News of the advancement forward of Segregated Witness, or SegWit, made waves on Reddit’s r/Bitcoin Thursday afternoon in the form of a single forum discussion screen capture posted on Imgur. This pic seems to indicate a discussion by the Core developers about now being the time to put SegWit into action, after spending an appropriate amount of time within the testnet.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2016-06-24.