It has been simply over 2 years since Segregated Witness was activated on the Litecoin community and over these years adoption of the know-how has been considerably reasonable, settling and flatlining at round 50% for almost all of 2019. Since August that quantity has soared, peaking yesterday at 75% and setting a brand new all time excessive for the metric breaking the earlier peak of 66% in November of final yr in keeping with knowledge supplied by Blockchair.
We reached out to Litecoin Core Developer, Loshan who stated of the information:
Litecoin led the way in which ahead in adopting the bloat-reducing tech: SegWit. Sooner or later, we hope to steer adoption in cutting-edge blockchain know-how.
Segregated Witness has been a contentious change to the community that was shrouded in political disagreement in what got here to be referred to as the block measurement controversy. It enabled a few adjustments together with a repair to the malleability concern on the community that will assist pave the way in which to layer two scaling by way of the Lightning Community and secondly an efficient blocksize enhance to 4MB by separating out the witness knowledge from a transaction to its personal space, nonetheless the reasonable most of a block continues to be restricted to ~2.5MB.
Segwit additionally gives higher transaction effectivity and lowered charges for individuals who use it as a substitute of the legacy handle system. Whereas Segwit has turn out to be a majority of the community, adoption of Bech32 (Native Segwit) which provides even higher effectivity has been gradual, predominantly as a result of giant service suppliers and exchanges take time to improve their infrastructure.
When Coinbase first rolled out help for the know-how, adoption swiftly jumped from 9% to 33% in February 2018 and for some time adoption was correlated considerably with that of Bitcoin, together with this most up-to-date spike over the past two months indicating another giant service on the community has quietly upgraded.