If you’re in the Bitcoin community, you probably know of Segregated Witness as (a) a fix to transaction malleability and (b) a boost to the number of transactions that can be included in each block.

If you’re not in the Bitcoin community, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about and this article probably isn’t for you. Sorry :/

Anyway, “Segregated Witness” or “SegWit” is a Swiss army knife in terms of benefits. It leads to improvements on so many levels it’s actually surprising. It’s really, really good. So good that it’s worth listing out all of the benefits.

Here’s why SegWit is awesome: