There have been a lot of good things written about Core’s recent release 0.13.1 and the advantages SegWit could provide. A less public feature, however, is that SegWit partitions the network; a 0.13.1 node only connects to other 0.13.1 nodes. Because of this, the SegWit soft fork has properties of a hard fork...
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