SEE NOVEMBER 24, 2017 9:39pm UPDATE (below)

After a long battle to gain consensus, SegWit is now locked_in on the ArtByte Blockchain!

SEE SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 UPDATE (below)

ArtByte v0.13 source code with SegWit enabled is released, please update your miners.

https://github.com/AppleByteMe/AppleByte

SEE SEPTEMBER 19, 2017 UPDATE (below)

We have mined the first block with SegWit enabled . You can see it on the ArtByte explorer. Look at the block version number, it ends in 915 which is signaling SegWit and CSV. http://explorer.artbyte.me/block/176ba6f3a48804db15f77d913f4adb61fad23bc40f2588058feeaa817e77f174

SEE AUGUST 15, 2017 UPDATE (below)

SegWit and CSV are now fully enabled on the ArtByte testnet! Up next is final testing on the new client and mining pool.

Then enabling SegWit on the live network.

As ArtByte announced on June 10th, we are implementing SegWit on the ArtByte blockchain.

Our developers have been hard at work, and now ArtByte 0.13, including SegWit is successfully running on the test net.

Upgrading ArtByte to 0.13 gives ArtByte many advantages, including:

Faster synchronization

Dynamic transaction fees

Priority transactions

Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation

BIP65 Enforce OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY opcode

BIP68 Enforce sequence locks for relative locktime

BIP112 Enforce OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY

BIP113 Locktime enforcement soft fork

BIP130 Direct headers announcement

BIP152 Compact Block support

SegWit will add the following advantages to ArtByte:

Elimination of unwanted transaction malleability

Capacity increase

Weighting data based on how it affects node performance

Signature covers value

Linear scaling of sighash operations

Increased security for multisig

More efficient almost-full-node security

Script versioning

And more..

Detailed changelog of work accomplished below:

Features:

Autotools for building

artbyte-cli utility - Separate RPC from client

OP_RETURN provably unspendable outputs

Faster synchronization

Dynamic transaction fees

REST interface

Improved signing security

Watch-only support

Consensus library

Relaxed P2SH address rules

artbyte-tx utility

artbyte v4 blocks

Strict DER encoding for signatures

Block file pruning

Big endian support

Memory usage optimization

Stream isolation for Tor

BIP65 Enforce OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY opcode

Signature validation using libsecp256k1

Reduce upload traffic

BIP130 Direct headers announcement

Memory pool limiting

Opt-in Replace-by-fee transactions

Random-cookie RPC authentication

Pushdatas in OP_RETURN outputs allowed

Priority transactions

Automatically use Tor hidden services

Transaction fees improvements

Merkle branches removed from wallet

BIP68 enforce sequence locks for relative locktime

BIP112 enforce OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY

BIP113 locktime enforcement soft fork

Segwit Elimination of unwanted transaction malleability Capacity increase Weighting data based on how it affects node performance Signature covers value Linear scaling of sighash operations Increased security for multisig More efficient almost-full-node security Script versioning Database cache memory increased BIP152 Compact Block support Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation New bytespersigop implementation Out-of-sync Modal Info Layer

References:

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.0

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.2

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.9.3

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.0

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.1

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.10.3

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.0

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.11.2

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.1

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.0

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.1

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.2

UPDATE - AUGUST 15 2017

SegWit and CSV are now fully enabled on the ArtByte testnet! Up next is final testing on the new client and mining pool.

Then enabling SegWit on the live network.

UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We have mined the first block with SegWit enabled . You can see it on the ArtByte explorer. Look at the block version number, it ends in 915 which is signaling SegWit and CSV.

Neither is active but the pool miner is voting for it to be enabled on the network, when we get to 8,064/10,080 blocks signalling support for both Version Bit forks it will be locked in, another two weeks and it will be active.

http://explorer.artbyte.me/block/176ba6f3a48804db15f77d913f4adb61fad23bc40f2588058feeaa817e77f174

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 UPDATE

ArtByte v0.13 source code, with SegWit enabled is released, please update your miners.

https://github.com/AppleByteMe/AppleByte

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