(SEGWIT 2018) COINBASE ANNOUNCES 2018 SEGWIT SUPPORT AS THIRD ‘ENGINEERING PRIORITY’

Largest US cryptocurrency wallet and trade Coinbase has tested it “plans” to assist SegWit transactions in 2018.

SEGWIT FOLLOWS SECURITY, PERFORMANCE AS TOP PRIORITY

In a blog publish on Friday, the company’s vice president Dan Romero confirmed the timeframe, in spite of noting that SegWit, as a “new feature,” was only Coinbase’s 0.33 priority. In the post, published on Medium, Romeo wrote:

In phrases of our engineering priorities, securely storing purchaser funds remains our pinnacle priority. […] Our subsequent precedence is to make certain that our platform remains performant in the course of durations of top volume. Following protection and performance, we are targeted on adding new aspects for our customers.
Coinbase bore the brunt of a massive inflow of new users in recent weeks, which accompanied Bitcoin’s surge in cost to $18,000.

Technical infrastructure struggled to cope, main to downtime and delays processing transactions which had additionally happened throughout Bitcoin’s lesser upshoot earlier this year.
Despite dealing with criticism over its SegWit adoption, as well as its stance on the now-defunct SegWit2x hard fork, Coinbase appears to be maintaining its laissez-faire mindset to imposing the technology, which would give sizeable financial savings on prices to customers amongst different advantages.

“Many of our clients have been asking for SegWit, and we’re working out a way to put into effect this improve safely,” Romero continued.

The Coinbase platform shops billions of greenbacks well worth of bitcoin on behalf of its customers and Romero notes that any modifications to the platform’s infrastructure require “significant planning and consideration for the security and steadiness of our platform.”

Coinbase meanwhile is no longer alone in its gradual course to SegWit adoption. This week, fellow stalwart pockets company Blockchain.info unveiled full guide for the Bitcoin Cash challenging fork, while in a similar fashion pushing returned SegWit interaction until subsequent year.

“In 2018 we will be rolling out guide for SegWit within our pockets products,” its personal blog publish validated final month. In the post, Blockchain.info stated:

This will be a foremost and complex update to some of the most sensitive parts of our codebase, throughout a vast range of systems and devices, affecting billions in user transactions with doubtlessly widespread privacy implications.

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