Bitcoin Q&A: Does Lightning Need SegWit?
Is Segregated Witness necessary for the Lightning Network? Yes. The Lightning Network can be implemented at this time but the result would be less efficient without SegWit. It is a pre-requisite for a lot of things.
This is part of a talk which took place on December 6th, 2016, at the Bitcoin Cologne meetup in Köln, Germany: https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Cologn...
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