The soft fork fixed third-party transaction malleability for SegWit spends and separated signature data into a witness structure. It also enabled safer construction of layered protocols such as the Lightning Network.
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Segregated Witness activates on Bitcoin
SegWit activated at block 481824, introducing a new transaction format and effective block-weight system.
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