Newslink: The Risks of Segregated Witness: Problems under Evidence Laws

The bitcoin community still debates whether Segregated Witness will help the network’s scalability or will instead create more problems. As I have previously written, SegWit raises legal questions because it would enable full digital signature (witness) data to be dropped from the transaction data; this would undermine the ability of bitcoin digital signatures to also be used as electronic contract signatures (for example, for smart contracts).

https://news.bitcoin.com/risks-segregated-witness-problems-evidence-laws/