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## Rumour has it that Bitcoin Miners finally agreed to integrate SegWit for Bitcoin within the next 3 months!
This could be a huge development for Bitcoin as well as the **whole cryptocurrency world!**
***Nothing has been confirmed yet,*** but several sources reported in the last few hours that Bitcoin Miners *might* have finally come to a **conclusion**.

### What is SegWit and why is it important?
The Bitcoin network is currently **overloaded** - it's getting more and more popular, so the network has to deal with more transactions than it was built for.  Currently, it can mange 7 transactions per second.
Due to this capacity overload, some transactions are currently taking **too long to be confirmed.**
This is where SegWit comes in: SegWit stands for ***segregated witness.***
It's a process which ***reduces*** the size of blocks on a blockchain, by removing signature data from the transactions.
Therefore, there is ***additional capacity*** on the blockchain for more transactions and confirmations can be completed quicker.


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## The Rumours
#### There have been several rumours about the Bitcoin SegWit activation and a 2MB block size in the last couple of hours.
A [post on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6cke9d/charlie_shrem_confirms_that_segwit_is_getting/) showed a screenshot of ***Charlie Shrem*** supposedly hinting about the update in a ***Telegram group***, telling people that there were **big, segwit-related news** and that people should **buy bitcoin now.**
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#### Whether this conversation is real would still have to be confirmed.



### CoinDesk's huge Consensus 2017 Conference has just kicked off in New York City today, and supposedly some Bitcoin Miners met up yesterday to discuss the SegWit activation. 
**Jihan Wu** and **Barry Silbert** supposedly also confirmed the integration of SegWit into Bitcoin. 

Entrepreneur **Alistair Milne** tweeted that a ***meeting*** organized by Silbert at Consensus produced what *“may conclude the Bitcoin scaling debate (for now).”*

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You can read more about the Bitcoin SegWit activation in [this](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1928218.0) and [this](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1928093.0) bitcointalk thread.

### According to these sources, SegWit could be activated within the next 3 months - or even earlier! 

Rumour has it that an ***official announcement*** will follow tomorrow.
This would mean that the Bitcoin price could make a ***huge jump*** tomorrow, but eventually other Altcoin prices may drop as all eyes are on Bitcoin. 

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### <center>*What's your opinion on this? Will the SegWit-BTC-Activation happen sooner than we think ?!*</center>



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*Sources: [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6cke9d/charlie_shrem_confirms_that_segwit_is_getting/), [2](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-hits-2150-following-rapid-progress-in-segwit-scaling-talks), [3](https://www.btc-echo.de/bitcoin-miner-einigen-sich-auf-segwit-aktivierung/), [4](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1928218.0), [5](http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/05/22/rumour-segwit-will-activated-bitcoin-network-soon/), [6](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1928093.0), [7](https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-miners-agree-in-ny-on-segwit-activation-before-september-sources), [8](https://www.btc-echo.de/bitcoin-miner-einigen-sich-auf-segwit-aktivierung/)*


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